Results for the site category: Safety

  • Swartberg Snow - Mountain Flying

    Saturday morning - I flew inland from Knysna to find the snow on our highest mountain range in this area. 100km north from my Hometown Knysna.
  • Not kidding ya - it was an Echidna!

    Last updated by ToucanFly Comments (1)

    Categories: Trike Talk, Safety, Video

    Interesting flight this evening. Doing a few circuits after being absent from the skies for a month.  On my final approach, it looked like a small boulder had been placed on the runway at Moruya airport. As I got closer, the boulder starting...
  • Topic 4) Urge to land on dirt roads

    Last updated by jeff trike Comments (13)

    Categories: Trike Talk, Safety

    Trikes are the ultimate recreational exploration vehicle. As long as you stay clear of populated areas, man-made structures, or controlled airspace, you can go anywhere.  The ability to go where ever you want, past the fences and locked gates...
  • stones spupidicity 101

    Last updated by Monty

    Categories: Safety

    the other day, for no good reason i changed my 12m wing for my 14.7. it was hot here in rain-country, in the upper 80s, i had to do it in the sun, i was tired and sweaty, it took several hours, and i KNOW i tightened the collar at back of the wing,...
  • GETTING READY TO FLY WITH THE BALLOONS

    GETTING READY TO FLY WITH THE BALLOONS

    By Dean Coleman

    Categories: Safety, Big Fast Trikes, Photography

    BALLOON FLIGHT IN JAN 2014
  • Topic 3: Leaving the pattern to early

    Last updated by jeff trike Comments (4)

    Categories: Safety

    Topic 3) Leaving the pattern to early The beginning of every flight is a mini-test flight.  You may think everything is perfect but did you really get through the preflight checklist?  I continue to annoy myself by occasionally...
  • Coordinates from GeoHack

    Coordinates from GeoHack

  • Military Advice

    Military Advice

    Part of group: Joke of the Day
  • Topic 2) early morning itis

    Last updated by jeff trike Comments (6)

    Categories: Safety

    Morning is the time to fly.   Unless it was blowing hard the past week, the air is clean, still and smooth.  It makes it worth getting up a 4am to launch at 5:30.  No one else is in the pattern.  Every landing is...