Flying in Spain: stories

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Sadler Vampite visit our Airfield at Totana

17-10-2011

Very nice airplane

More info: http:http://sadlervampires.homestead.com

My son's first flight 16-10-2011

Yesterda, before my youngest son went to sleep, he told me he became a big boy, and wanted to fly the other day. So we did!


Take me for a ride daddy!


should i stay or should i go?


No way back now

Jiiiihaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i'm flying

A very low pass...

Waaaauw

Gyrocopter lessons in Russia, just practice on the runway

Past week i did my last trip with my Rans s12 from Totana to Medina, Cadiz. A trip from about 452 km. It took me 5 flying hours to get my rans safely over the mountains. My video is almost ready., and i will post him later this day.

For now a funny gyrocopter lesson in russia, few guys testing a gyrocopter on the runway, enjoy

My rans s12 Is sold all the best for the new owner. Ultralight flying in Spain.

Nowadays, almost nothing sells. I bought my Rans s12 with the idea of flying it 100 hrs and trying to sell it for almost the same price as I bought it, ... to fly cheap. So I had about 90 hours and I placed an ad.. There were 3 or 4 similar planes for sale that moment. Cheaper. So I was thinking it will take about 6 months to sell the plane.... I was wrong. It took me four days.

So now I'm planeless. I try to find a good Rans coyote, I already found 2. One in Las Palmas, and one interesting repair project.

The one in Las palmas has a rotax 582 grey head, and the repair project is with a damaged rotax 80 hp, damaged wing and fuselage.

Airbet gyrocopter 100 hp rotax Flying in spain Mountain flying

I found on my cellphone 2 little movies about the airbet gyrocopter, when we made mountaintrip nearby Totana

Earthquake in Lorca Spain

Yesterday, round 17.00h we were drinking something in a bar 2km from the center off Lorca.

Suddenly the earth was shaking, drinks were falling on the floor, and everybody was looking around him to see what was going on. We didn't realise that it was an earthquake, but a few minutes later, when we came home our oldest son asked us if we felt the same,. He also told us everything was shaking, and the swimmingpool was like a see. Ok, we sufferd a light earthquake, we thought...

I even made jokes about it on msn with my sister, and my last words were, ok I'm going to take a little siesta now. So we did. In my dream, there was a earthquake. but when I opened my eyes everything in our room was shaking like gellypudding. In those few seconds who seemed to last minutes, houses collapsed like matches, and people died.

Even then we didn't realize how bad it was. We went out to pick up our youngest son from the guarderia in the center off Lorca. Just a few hundred meters out off our street, there was a lot off traffic, and we saw collapsed walls, people panicing. Our youngest son was doing alright, but just a building away there was a wall collapsing. It took us an hour to get back to our house, a 750 meters trip. The first two quakes, we didn't realize immediately what was going on but I can assure you that we felt every (little) quake afterwards twice as hard, just because being frightened and wondering about what will happen...

ultralight accident in Totana Spain With Eurostar

Sunday 01/05/2011

When i announced base leg for the 03 i heard pedro, who was on touchdown, announcing he had a problem, and was stucked on the runway. The tower anoounced me to land on the first part on the runway, so id did, landed and gived Pedro a hand to get is airplane off the runway. His tire was collapsed on touchedown. Watch here the video.

Pedro and his Eurostar.

performing an 8 above the runway and practice emergency landing

At 1500 feet performing a flat 8 followed by an emergency landing. The weather was turbulent and a 15 knot full crosswind on the runway.

Flying circuits in spain

In spain, a ulm airplane may not fly higher then 300 meter above groundlevel. It means if you want to fly over 5000 feet high mountain, you will fly over it at 5300 feet. If you are flying along the coastline, your max hight will be 300 meter. So in reality you wil be flying more times higher then 300 meter Qfe. Circuits are flown at 500 ft Qfe. Qfe stands for hight above groundlevel.

Flying in spain Stol landing on the taxiway

When we arrived in Totana a thunderstorm just hit the airfield. The runway was like a river. We waited 1 hour, and decided to make a quick tour. We took off on the left side off the runway direction 21, an landed on the taxiway. Enjoy the video

Flying the renegade spirit

doing touch an go's with the Savannah and Rans s12

We arrived at 10.00h on the Totana airfield, and started right away practice touch and go's with a student pilot. The landings where rusty, and need to be practiced more. But keep up the good work! keeping the nose up!

The first student pilot landing with the Rans s12 was a bad hair day landing also. The attempt to correct the left breakout, resulted in a right wing drop. A go around was the best decision. The next landings where good ones

Thunderstorm in Totana flying the Rans s12

At 13.00h big Cb clouds stared to building up. I had a appointment with Manuel At 1700h. To give him a flying lesson. When we arrived at the airfield, it was cristal clear weather on the south direction, but to the nord it was black and thunders where clear to hear. There was a15 knot full cross wind, and we desided to practice touch and go's. manuel did a good job and did some pritty nice landings. here is the video result of our flight.

Flying in Spain Pedro with is Zenair ch 701 above the clouds

Pedro, a friend of me and also Ultralight pilot sent me this movie, with an nice view above the clouds this morning, Thx Pedro.

Flying in Spain Slippy low pass at Totana airfield Rans s12

A slippy low pass and try to stay in the axis off the runway. A good practice. Building up speed to take off again. Performed with a light nosewind. During the low pass, the throttle setting was 4500 rpm.

Flying in Spain trip to Mazarron Rans s12

Another disc filled with film material, so it is time for some new stories. This film is made on a thursday afternoon 17.00h. There was a strong full crosswind from the east. It was a 15 knots full crosswind. So i took off turning into the wind direction as much as possible. We did a 45 min flight to Mazarron. Up in the air it was smooth to fly. Enjoy This movie. Just when we entered Mazzaron the camera battery was empty, so we where not able to film the trip back. Enjoy.

Testflight with the Ecoflyer jr05, in Totana, Spain

This morning I was fllling the Rans s12 to give a lesson flight to Robin and Isabelle when Julio came to me and asked me if I wanted to fly with the ecoflyer.....Yes!!!! Julio flew first to checkride and fly the airplane. 10 min later it was my turn. I can say that it is a smooth airplane with a big glide ratio 17/1. At 4000 rpm we did a nice cruise flight off 160 km/u. Landing with 90 km/u and 1 point of flaps. The landing is easy with this airplane, just needs some feet adjustment. The stick is very light an sensitive, so you don't need a lot of input. The cockpit is very roomy, and gives you the feeling you're flying with a big airplane.