Sunday, January 02, 2022

Bear with me...

...there is more to come here. I just started out the revamp of this blog recently and am still thinking about changes to the "concept". But eventually my plan is to keep this updated with new flying adventures, while gradually adding stories from my "flying past".

Stories I have in store and intend to write about (I will use the "publishing" date to order them as they occured):

  • Initial glider training in Oerlinghausen on ASK 13 and ASK 21 (1991)
  • Gliding in Bückeburg, with excursions to Eutingen, Vinon sur Verdon, La Cerdanya and Rechlin; on types such as Ka 6, Ka 7, Ka 8, ASK 21, Astir CS, ASW 19, Club Libelle, LS 4 and SG 38 (1991-1996)
  • Gliding in Telgte, with excursions to Berlinchen and Ottengrüner Heide; on types such as ASK 21, DG 500, Cirrus (1996-2001)
  • Motorgliding from Telgte, with flights across northern and southern Germany in SF25C and Grob G109 (1995-2001)
  • Powered flying in Uetersen on C150 and C172, with excursions to pretty much all of the German North Sea and Baltic coasts, to Denmark etc. (2001-today)
  • Gliding from Uetersen on ASK 21, DG 300, Discus and DG 1000, with an excursion to Berliner Heide (2001-today)
  • Gliding in Omarama, New Zealand, on Twin Astir and LS 4 (2003)
  • First flights in the US on C172 in Bloomington/Normal (2004)
  • Flying a rented PA 28 through the Bahamas (2005)
  • A round trip with a C172SP from Las Vegas via Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Mammoth Yoseimite, San Francisco, Monterey, Santa Barbara and Death Valley (2006)
  • Flying a SF25C from Oerlinghausen to Duxford/UK and return, to see the Flying Legends airshow (2006)
  • Flying a C172 in South Africa, based out of Johannesburg Grand Central and up to Botswana and Zambia (2007)
  • A round trip on a C172SP from Hayward/CA to Shelter Cove, Ukiah, the Trinity Alps, Mariposa Yosemite and return (2008)
  • An amazing trip from Uetersen on a C172 all the way up to the Lofoten islands in Norway (2009)
  • Another round trip in the US, on a C172SP G1000, this time from Napa/CA to Shelter Cove, Klamath Falls, Elko, Sun River, Seattle Boeing Field and return (2010)
  • A flight to Bornholm in a SF25C (2011)
  • A flight from Uetersen to Freiburg and return on a SF25C (2013)
  • Flying a C172 through Queensland in Australia (2013)
  • Flying a C172 from Auckland/New Zealand down to Franz Josef Glacier and return (2013)
  • A weekend trip to Höganäs in Sweden with ca C172 (2015)
  • A week's flying trip with a C172 from Uetersen through the Alps all the way to Dubrovnik in Croatia and back (2016)
  • A week-long trip from Uetersen to Toulouse, via Freiburg and back (2017)
  • A weekend trip from Uetersen to the Dutch island of Texel (2017)
  • A week-long trip from Uetersen to Sibiu in Romania and back, via the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary (2018)
  • Two days of flying out of Hayward, California (2018)
  • Two day trips to the North Sea island of Heligoland (2014+2018)
  • A 6-day tour of Southern Sweden in 2020

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