The joy of soaring across the skies
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It has been almost 5 months since I’ve gone gliding. According to my log book, the last time was the 16th of December which is definitely not in the near past. I did go Gliding yesterday though, the last few flights of the day, and it was exhilarating and I’d forgotten what joy it is to turn a glider at the touch of a stick. The first 2 flights were as usual, although I did get to do a considerable bit of the taking off and landing. The third and last flight of the day was the exciting one. The sun was just setting over the horizon and my instructor said that this one was going to be a fun flight. When you are sitting in a glider, ten seconds away from take off, ‘fun’ is usually not the word you want to hear. But before I could protest, we were in the air, hit a nice high altitude and started off the so-called fun part.
3 loops one after the other. And before my head could level itself, 3 rolls one after the other and finally to top it all off, an insanely high speed low pass across the control tower at about 225km/h.
It was definitely fun, perhaps some of the craziest fun I’ve had to date, and I can honestly say I’ve caught the Gliding bug.
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