We were supposed to be working the most of the weekend renovating the workshop but the weather was just to good to get wasted. Looking at the grey skies and tons of rain today that was a good decision.
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| open the door and get it out |
We managed to finish some work too and even had a general meeting on Saturday evening.
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| you were supposed to be pressure washing Zig ... |
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| There you go! But hold on ... what are the two bottles doing here? |
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| you better go and help the boys with the roof |
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| and I will perform a close inspection on this spider |
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| they said the roof was fixed and it was already past beer o'clock |
In all the chaos during weekend I managed to grab Peter for couple of flights to give me the Janus conversion. I am now good to go and will take Ziggy for a flight next weekend - weather permitting of course. I always kept saying that we don't need no stinky engines on gliders but I was really positively surprised with Janus. This thing just lifts off in no time and climbs out with 6 kts. Amazing what this old little two stroke can do.
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| the sky looked pretty good considering it's still winter |
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| ready to go |
Peter claimed to have full confidence in me and then pulled the throttle back some 100 ft off the ground. Not a surprise - this is his favorite maneuver. It's not easy to scare the s... out of someone doing this in here - you can basically land everywhere. And I really mean everywhere. Very friendly airfield and the surroundings.
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| 20 min later with a "simulated engine failure to start and retract" |
Marta was up so the thermals had to be shut down and the Cu's removed from the sky. But seriously that was the beginning of the front we have overhead today. We climbed up to 2500 ft (on the engine of course) and I had to laugh out loud on Pete's comment: "you haven't been that high in a glider in Sweden, have you?". Well, sadly he was right. Most of the days we could call 2500 ft comfortable if you define comfortable being at the cloudbase. Looking down at the outlanding options though it was far from comfortable. Swedish people must be very brave flying there on a daily basis.
