Flying is fun! But it also gets a bit boring when always taking off on the same routes, stop for a coffee and fly back again. Didn’t we all start one way or the other to discover the unknown and see things from a different view? A nice way to […]
Chick’s Logbook
“Sunshine!” Once again I am relieved when I open the curtains (much too) early on Saturday morning. Once again it is our open day at the flying club, once again many hours of preparation have been spent to present our club to the outside world and make potential new students […]
VCR Open Day 2018 – sunshine, fun and lots of ...
For weeks the weather is bad….well, worse then just bad: either the clouds are so low that you cannot see the top of the street lights or the wind is blowing too strong….then finally, sun in sight…..but no planes available…..but hang on, I do have the check out for our […]
Sunshine, sightseeing…and just a bit more
“Hey, I am around your area for a long weekend. Fancy finally meeting?” Since our blog post about flying in Austria roughly a year ago Petra from www.hingeflogen.com and we have stayed in touch, exchanging flying stories and experiences. Now it was finally time to meet in person. And what better place could […]
When hingeflogen.com meets chicks @ Hangar 7/Salzburg/Austria
Time flies when you are having fun…. Flying fun when you are having time… Fun time when we are flying… We are looking back at a great year and cannot wait for the 2018 adventures to start!
Click for Chicks Best of 2017
When Chicks fly to Midden Zeeland On a sunny Saturday two chicks decided to fly to Midden Zeeland for coffee and burgers. But what are chicks without a rooster? Just two hens… So this time they took a rooster with them! And so Mansur packed his bags and got ready to […]
What happens when two chicks take a rooster along to ...
The open day at our flying club is always a nice chance to share our enthusiasm, chat with other pilots and simply enjoy a sunny day with fuel fumes and planes all around. When you are then coaxed into organising it it quickly turns into a mixture of nightmare, fun, […]
VCR Open Day 2017 – sharing our flying enthusiam
A regular feature on our club agenda: Touch & Go Day, destination Midden Zeeland (EHMZ) … and having fun! As the day has been organized once more by our new chick PH-IRENE obviously we have to join counting also on getting some additional practise and enjoying Dutch “gezelligheid” together with other flying enthusiasts […]
Touch & Go and Touch & Go and..Touch & Go!
I can’t tell precisely when my love for flying started. My dad worked for ESA, the European Space Agency, so space, spacecraft and aircraft, were always there. The first time I saw Top Gun was with my dad. We laughed our behinds off. That might have been it. Fast forward […]
Because I was inverted…
What do we state on our front page? “Our ideas for trips and stories usually come up spontaneously and also along the way we stay open for anything that might happen and that guides us along to the next adventure.” Somehow this is also how my latest adventure came along: […]
When the right side does not feel right
Finally! The weather is promising all weekend long, our agendas match for once, we have booked good old PH-NSC and we have both completed our yearly check flight last week. It looks as if finally we will be taking off together again! And funnily enough we realize: in the two years […]
First Chick Flight 2017 – getting rid of the winter ...
Sunday March 12th 2017- for the first time this year sunshine and spring temperatures hit Holland. Already at 11 o’clock our Ladies’pilot app group is busy: “Will we see each other on the club’s terrace later?” I am glad to answer with yes, because today I will join our feathered […]
First solo – one of the most exciting steps in ...
…enjoy a bit of extra “groundschool” After long weeks of either rain, hard wind, low clouds or thunderstorms, finally the weather is just what you want and expect in summer: blue skies, mild winds – the perfect setup for a good flying day. But oh yes, you are stuck in […]
When the skies work against you….
Christmas time, time to slow down, reflect but also to look out for things to come in the New Year! We are confronted with year’s reviews in newspapers, magazines and TV shows. Which inspired me to look at my flying year: A few remaining training and solo hours to do to […]
Lessons learnt – My 2016 Flying Review
It’s one minute after I’ve contacted another airplane over the radio. It had turned around back to its home base of Lelystad. I had held up my hand gesturing the other two in the plane to be quiet. At first they didn’t seem to understand why. ATC had not addressed […]
Human Factors – Chicks Resource Management in a Piper
1 Normally nobody who knows me is surprised to hear that I have people staying over. But when I explain how Sean ended up at my place, I admit to have received some surprised looks. Quite simply, he has fixed something on the dashboard before we were heading off to the bushpilot […]
Chicken wings & cricket bats
1 “When you get your license, I will fly with you!” Sure we have all heard this before doubting however if our friends would really trust us when taking them up on it. But my friend Eva from Sweden took the dare and joined Kajsa’s husband and me on the club rallye in May 2016. […]
A sweet Swede in the Dutch sky
Finally it is summer time, skies are blue and sunny…and we start sweating in our cabins! Having headsets with plastic earmuffs becomes more and more uncomfortable. Yes, there are of-the-shelf cotton solutions, but somehow we have doomed them as “too standard and boring” – definitelty and very simply no chicks’ material. […]