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Pre-takeoff checklist
Last month I visited my home country, Hungary.
I did some glider training with a motor-glider I have never heard about before: Scheibe SF-25 Falke
It's cheaper by the hour than regular gliders since you don't need a tow plane to take you up, it can go up on her own power, safer too, cause you can always go back to your departure airport and don't have to call for rescue crew from the middle of someone's barley field.
Once at altitude (about 6,500), we turned off the engine and were riding on thermals.
Budaors (LHBS) is the airport, one of many grass strips around Budapest, the capital city, where I had the chance to practice actual soft field TO/LDs in a C-172 the previous year.
The Li-2 (Lisunov - at the beginning of the video) that looks like a DC plane is worth another thread on her own. She is a legend and she is the only airworthy Li-2 in the world.... (well, maybe N.Korea has one but they are hiding it...)
I did some glider training with a motor-glider I have never heard about before: Scheibe SF-25 Falke
It's cheaper by the hour than regular gliders since you don't need a tow plane to take you up, it can go up on her own power, safer too, cause you can always go back to your departure airport and don't have to call for rescue crew from the middle of someone's barley field.
Once at altitude (about 6,500), we turned off the engine and were riding on thermals.
Budaors (LHBS) is the airport, one of many grass strips around Budapest, the capital city, where I had the chance to practice actual soft field TO/LDs in a C-172 the previous year.
The Li-2 (Lisunov - at the beginning of the video) that looks like a DC plane is worth another thread on her own. She is a legend and she is the only airworthy Li-2 in the world.... (well, maybe N.Korea has one but they are hiding it...)