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GLIDER CHRONICLES 2011 - August 13th: Modern Beauties - Part 1

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Recent flying has been hampered by the weather, but I have managed to convert myself to flying the newer Discus single seater gliders, of which Lasham has three. These are beautiful fibreglass and carbon fibre aircraft which were initially built in 1984. For local soaring flights I had managed to get all the necessary “qualifications”, apart from the final check flight: 1: Bronze ‘C’ - Yep. Got that. 2: 20 hours solo flying, including 10 hours in the Grob102 or similar (i.e. a glas fibre single seater) - Yep. Got that too. 3: Briefing and check flight with full cat. - Don’t have that... (original story)