Looking upwards-tail and contrail
Friday was a good day-full of flying. In the morning I did a solo local nav flight over my home city of Portsmouth, as the following pictures illustrate. Then to round off the day, I did some gliding at Lasham as part of a club event I organised through my work.
My house amongst that concrete,brick and slate jungle down there!
Recently the weather has been really decent-clear skies, good visibility (for now anyway) and light winds. High pressure is in charge at the moment, but over a prolonged period of time an inversion can develop. An inversion is a layer in the atmosphere where the temperature increases with altitude. The layer can form a lid-trapping in pollutants,haze,dust, smoke etc from the earth below-which once it has built up, can really reduce visibility.
Inbetween gliding duties
This was the second time I have flown in a glider-so this time around we looked at stalling and stall recovery and turning, and the effect of adverse yaw. I always forget how much 'foot work' on the rudder pedals is required in gliding, showing how lazy my feet can be when powered aircraft!
This was the second time I have flown in a glider-so this time around we looked at stalling and stall recovery and turning, and the effect of adverse yaw. I always forget how much 'foot work' on the rudder pedals is required in gliding, showing how lazy my feet can be when powered aircraft!
Lasham Airfield, whilst under tow
