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!
Yearly Archives: 2017
4 There is a saying in German: when doing something 3 times it becomes a tradition. Well, I guess with this third trip South we have a tradition started then! While previously sticking to South African home turfs, this time we went border crossing towards Botswana and…nearly also to Zimbabwe. Unfortunately […]
Botswana 2017 or: the tradition to fly in South Africa
Abenteurer der Lüfte by Alexis Von Croy National Geographics at its best: with this 400 page turned covering more than 100 years flying history. Ex chief editor of German’s “Fliegermagazin” and “Planet Aerospace” von Coy collected 14 stories of pilots, planes and technical development, background stories, research and personal notes from […]
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 Aviators by Winston Groom Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle , Charles Lindbergh and the Epic Age of Flight Remember Forrest Gump? Well, here is another book of its famous author! Groom combines the true stories of 3 impressive aviators starting with their childhood and family background influencing their later choices […]
What do you do when you have never been to Sweden before, but am invited to a birthday party of somebody who was crazy enough to jump into a plane with you before (see “A sweet Swede in the Dutch sky“) and even still enthusiastic enough afterwards to try it herself […]
Sweet Swede up in the air again….discover Sweden’s South from ...
Relaxed sightseeing flying in Connecticut What do you do when you receive a text at 7.30 in the morning saying: “Sorry for the late reaction, but yes, our CFI Rob would be able to fly with you at 9.30 this morning.” First of all you stop being angry with your niece […]
Because I can….flying in the US
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
The difference between flying in the USA and Europe was explained to me by an American instructor as: In Europe it is “You can’t unless you can”, whereas in the USA it is “You can unless you can’t”. The rules and regulations are similar but the attitude is different. So, […]
Fly the USA – obtaining your Foreign License Based Airmen ...
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
3 What do you pack when you escape just for a week to your the village where you grew up on regular family visits? Unfortunately the restricted luggage rules did not leave space for my full pilot gear – but at least logbook, license and medical still fit into my bag…and […]
Flying high from LOWS
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 ...
“Flying asses through Africa” by Jack Mitchell What do you expect when the author himself apologizes his summary of short stories as “funny, sad, politically incorrect, rude, racist, hysterical, ridiculous, opinionated, sardonic, sarcastic, condescending, vulgar and occasionally philosophic!” Well, exactly that: a relaxed read which makes you laughing out […]
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 […]