Flying with the Cambridge Gliding Club
Bernd Kolb and I spent yesterday evening with the
Cambridge Gliding Centre. We are currently both at the
Code Generation 2009 conference.
Andrew Watson, also at the conference, and gliding instructor at Cambridge, invited us to join him for the Tuesday evening flying - thank you very much for this, Andrew!
Gliding really is the same everywhere, so once you are on an airfield, you can give everybody a hand and help out. And pilots are also a very nice bunch of folks, so it was easy to feel comfortable there. Bernd and I also both got a ride in one of their
ASK-21's, a training plane both Bernd and I have a lot of exprience in. We did a winch take-off, and because it was evening already, it was only a five minute hop. I hadn't done a winch take-off for a long time, so it was also good exercise!
Thanks to the evening crew for their hospitality, and to Andrew to taking us along!