July 24/15 am – Mr Barley is done
31 flights for Mr. Barley. Engine out and Big ear training finished. Well done. Congratulation on completing Transport Canada requirement of 30 solo flights and 5 hrs total flight time.
July 23/15 pm – Mr. Barley 2 more flights
Two more flights in Mr. Barley’s log. Bothe reverse. All is good just the landing flare needs some work. No bellyflop tonight.
July 23/15 am – Mr Barley 5 more flights
Mr. Barley I added five flights to his logbook this morning. Conditions were good with the initial overcast till about 9 AM. Enough wind for reverse inflations. Mr. Barley is finally understanding the lending flare. And of course it wouldn’t be Mr. Barley if he didn’t do one bellyflop in the barley again. Those are all on landings with the engine turned off so there is no danger and it’s actually quite entertaining to watch…
Mr Barley 24 flights as of this am
July 22/15 pm – Mike 2 flights, Mr. Barley 10 flights
We had 20 km/h wind at the field tonight. Mike had first flight which went quite well but on the second one he did got himself into unstabilized oscillating flight. It took a while for Mike to get the flight under control–fairly exciting moments. I have to say I got my dose of adrenaline today.
Mr. Barley came bit late but he quickly managed five flights all using reverse inflation. After short break he proceeded to do another 10 flights. That is total of 19 in his log book. Well done tonight Mr. Barley – only one bellyflop tonight. Last five landings were actually quite good.
July 22/15 am – Too windy
Went to the field but wind was already over treshold – no flying this am.
July 21 pm – Mike 3 flights tonight
It was quite windy at the field at 7:30 pm so we waited till 8:15 or so. The wind did come down and Mike managed 3 flights and one turtle + few nice low passes. Total amount of flights in Mike’s log – 9
July 21/15 am – Mike 4 more flights
We got to the field nice and early then sat around for bit to see what the wind was doing. After a while we decided to set up. As soon the gliders came out of the bags it started to rain, so we packed up. Santino went home and me and Mike went for breakfast hoping that rain will stop and we can get a few flights in. When we came back to the field we had a very good wind and since it was overcast we had short opportunity to fly. Mike quickly managed four flights using reverse inflation and is now pretty much taking off on his own. Couple of his landings were very good in fact the last one was flawless. Well done Mike.
July 20/15 pm – Mike, first two flights.
It was quite windy at the field so we end up sitting around from 5 o’clock almost till 7:45. Eventually the wind did come down and Mr. X, who was in the April course but did not finish, managed 4 flights. Three of those were very good but one more of a belly flop into a barley field… So from now on I’m going to call him Mr. Barley.
Mike manage his first solo and aded another flight shortly after. Both takeoffs were great – some stumbling on landing but that’s to be expected.
Well done and congratulation Mike on your first solo flight.
July 20 am – Mike day 3
We have ground handled in low winds and covered forward inflation and also practised mock up take off’s under power. Mike is ready to fly tonight!
July 19/15 pm – Mike day 2 – pm
We have worked on reverse inflations with motor on Mike’s back I also had chance to demo whole bunch of touch and go’s. Looks like nice weather in forecast for tomorrow.
