Well done to Atanas Atanassov for his first Glider Solo! He did 2 launches off the winch on Sat 20th October. Then bought the beers.
Congrats Atanas. Lets hope for lots more solos this year. Hope this thread can be used to post up achievements throughout the year as they are completed. lets hope for lots of posts! cheers
highest personal flight same day as bob - but only to 12,250ft.....(no oxygen unfort...) - looked up and something caught my eye, thought it was bob but infact a 737 in the airway! great stuff! wednesday 14th Nov - first 2 supervised glider aerotows from the other end of the rope! up at sutton bank in supercub. was great fun! hope people got some good flights in this weekend.
we need to put this stuff on the interunis league table - we'd be top with atanas' first solo and dan's field landing stuff alone! (plus all those 5 points for first timers!)
We're top of the league!! Check out http://www.interunis.co.uk/ and look at the league table!!
Points are awarded for achievements in progression and achievements, so when you've done something significant, let me know and I'll see what points we can get!
Darn you beat me to it. Yep, a first solo for Yirka, and a re-solo for Ben, who was also winch trained today. We're making tons of progress here boys and girls, keep it up!
sweet as guys sounds like it's going well. Congrats to Yirka and Ben! Isn't that some sort of record for Yirka? Have you done any gliding/power flying before Yirka? If not then I don't know of anyone in LUUGS who started in Sep/Oct and was solo as soon as Feb. Congrats! Save me a drink for when I'm back!
On Sunday 18th May Bob Crick nailed his five hours, and on 24th May Yirka got his hour for bronze and xc, and Tom Elliot and me got a bronze leg each. Great stuff! That K-18 is going to be a busy aeroplane!
Just to keep you guys up to date with me, I`ve done 3 flights at Parham since joining last month, first flight in K21 was 50 minutes along with some great aerobatics. 2nd flight was an 1hour and 11 minutes in a DG505 and then last wednesday was 1 hour 5 minutes in the 505 again, not bad that last one considering the sea breeze was moving through. Instructors think i`ll be very close to solo for the Inter Unis so hoping to add to the points total.
Well done guys, soon be past me the way my gliding's going! thought I might as well add (in case anyone wonders where I've gone..!)
I got a job up in Inverness with Highland Airways on their cadet scheme there! An achievement I reckon, still can't get over it! Dont qualify for about 2 yrs (have a stint on operations first), but hope to get on 406s on fisheries protection-quality hands on flying, low level over the north sea!
Take care guys, should be up on Sat(7th) on route to INV!
Congrats to Will Scallan on his first solo on Sunday. More fodder for the winch and K-18 (and K-6 when the paperwork is sorted out!) Also more soaring success for Yirka, busting the 2 hour mark from the winch for his XC endorsement. Nice one!
Congrats to Matt Woodhouse for completing his Silver Duration flight today in some great wave taking him all the way to 12,000ft and keeping him up for 5 hours! I tell you now I'm jealous!