Sailplane flight at Lake Keepit
I finally got to take another sailplane flight today. I drove up from Sydney up to Manilla last night and went to the Lake Keepit club this morning where I got to fly the Puchatek 2 seater, as it will actually spin and I needed to practice spin recovery. That exercise went well, and we boated around in some good thermals for 2 hours and landed before the kangaroos come out in force. Dave Seib also came out and I saw him come gliding underneath us in the LS6, we met up for dinner at the Pub in Manilla.
Tomorrow I have to practice aborted tow, and then I hope to go solo, should be fun!
Some pictures from today;
- Daily inspection, my plane in the middle
- Looks like a good day, tug gets fed.
- Kangaroos mobbing the airstrip
- Kangaroos mobbing the airstrip
- One roo is shy and tries to hide from the paparazzi
- More roos
- I spooked them
- Cute little buggers
- Sign says it all














