November 2011

January 10, 2012

Flight of the month goes to Adam West for an out-and-return flight from Signal Hill to the along the Apostles and back.

"A perfect Signals flight. Challenging to get around the face of Lion's Head, and once up, abundant and smooth lift. Racing under the clouds to the end of the Apostles and back and then meeting up with Eric on the Lion's Head crossing and doing it al again. A sunset landing and a cold beer in Mouille Point topped off a great flight."

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October 2011

January 10, 2012

Flight of the month goes to Eric van der Walt for a 48km triangle at Porterville during the Gatskop competition.

Eric waiting on launch (photo Coral Benn)

Eric's tracklog can be found here.

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September 2011

November 20, 2011

Flight of the month goes to new pilot, Stefan Nel, for his first soaring flight! Stefan's story below reminds us of the simple joy of flying and how lucky we are to enjoy this incredible sport.

Stefan on the ramp at Dasklip

Stefan's story:
The day was almost perfect... A windy Thursday afternoon on Rondebossie at the end of September. Few of us was there, Lennox, Ian, Chris and Steve. Having heard about Steve's awesome soaring flight the week before with an "accidental" top-landing and all, I w...

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June 2011

July 12, 2011

Flight(s) of the month went to Ross Hofmeyer for some excellent winter flying at Rondebossie. Although a new HG pilot, Ross has been showing excellent command of a range of skills from light wind launches and spot landings to high wind flights and top landings. Great stuff Ross.

Ross just after take off

Ross' story:
I was really fortunate over the last few weeks to get 4 nice flights in at Rondebossie. On 18 June the club held a 'check flight' day to encourage all the members to get their licen...

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March 2011

April 17, 2011

The flight of the month went to Adam for a 77km FAI triangle at Dasklip during the March Gatskop competition. An epic day, with huge climbs to over 3000m ASL. The story here:

Almost at cloudbase, 3300m ASL.

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January 2011

April 12, 2011

Some good flying this month with several pilots going over 100kms. However, the deserving winner was Grove Steyn for his back-to-back Klawer Flights from Dasklip. Over 130kms two days in a row. Altitude gains of up to 3200m ASL. Fantastic flying.

3000m ASL above Clanwilliam Dam en route to Klawer (photo A.West)

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December 2010

April 12, 2011

The flight of the month went to Christopher Mellor for his first soaring flight. 45 minutes at Gericke's Point. Video put together by Dick can be seen here. Nice one Christopher!
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November 2010

November 24, 2010

This month's flight of the month went to Ian de Vries, for his class-winning flight at the recent Gatskop competition. Ian's story:

climbing under a cloudy sky at Dasklip (photo A. West)

So after a quite a few Rondebossie trips, and two weekends of no flying at Porterville, I was pretty fired up to fly my hang glider there. The long range forecast looked really good the whole week, which helped build excitement, and it turned out accurate. So Saturday dawned and it looked fantastic. 103 pil...

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October 2010

October 21, 2010

This months Flight of the Month goes to Greg Gibson for a nice Rondebossie session.

Greg's story:
I arrived at Rondebossie at around 3.30 on Saturday afternoon. The wind was perfect, quite smooth at around 25kmh. I rigged as fast as I could and took off at about 4.00. I played around the hill for about half an hour and was really thirsty so top landed, had a quick drink and took off immediatly. This time I was up for about 1 hour. There was consistent lift with very tight but strong bands o...
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September 2010

September 29, 2010

Despite being winter time, there was lots of flying this month, mainly at Rondebossie. Some guys getting nice airtime in preparation for summer. The flight of the month went to Adam for a solo flight at Signals. The story here:

"Saturday afternoon turned into a wonderfully mellow Signals day. I headed out there late and just caught the tail end of the day. Not a day to get high or go far, but a wonderful day just to enjoy flying!

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