Like Ian, I enjoyed flying the Skylark 4 in my early flying days and flew 400 +
hours in them. A lovely old lady, comfortable seating, good view, good
airbrakes, and easy to fly in cloud. The main problem I encountered when I was
chasing Diamond distance was that the long flights made my legs ac
GTC was at Keepit a few years back. I'm not sure now if it was owned by the Wee
Waa group or Ron Cameron LKSC President.
JH
- Original Message -
From: John Parncutt
To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:27 PM
Subject:
Terry,
It's quite common to share thermals with swifts in England. They are taking
their pick of the insect food being brought up to them in the thermals. If they
disappear from view when you're climbing with them, then you can be sure that
they have moved to a stronger thermal nearby!
John
Jenny,
I've flown a couple of flapless Citabrias in England. One had the 150hp
carby engine and the other was fuel injected, maybe a 160hp. We operated
from a small airfield with 950yds, being the longest run available and then
a climb over trees at each end. They were nice to fly, easy to oper
The Super Dimona's climb rate is reasonable and the turn round per tow is
good when it is remembered it uses it's airbrakes during the descent. It
needs a good grass runway length or hard runway to get up to climbing speed
when towing and is not suitable for towing out of small grass airfields w
Nigel's link to the youtube video showed Lasham catching up with The Midland
GC at the Long Mynd which has for many many years had a retrieve winch
system operating. The launch turn round is very impressive and the only
downside I know of is the loss of about 250' when the bridle and retrieve
c
Sinking air.
regards,
John
- Original Message -
From: JR
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Mammatus Cloud
What information can be deduced from mammatus clouds ?
regards
JR
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