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Yearly Archives: 2016

Christmas time, time to slow down, reflect but also to look out for things to come in the New Year! We are confronted with year’s reviews in newspapers, magazines and TV shows. Which inspired me to look at my flying year: A few remaining training and solo hours to do to […]

Lessons learnt – My 2016 Flying Review

20/12/2016 in Chick's Logbook by PH-FLO

Day 1 After our amazing trip this spring it was not really a difficult decision to say: “I wanna do this again – and this time the whole bushpilot package, please!” Well, nearly the whole as you can skip the first couple of days reserved for the license validation which […]

South Africa Part II – A diary of 6 days ...

29/11/2016 in Chicks Abroad tagged Bushpilot / Jo'burg / Johannesburg / Kunkuru Safari Lodge / PA 28 / PA 28 235 / SkyAfrica / South Africa by PH-FLO

Lindbergh – The tale of a flying mouse by Torben Kuhlmann Did you ever wonder who gave Charles Lindbergh the idea of flying? Read this book and you will know! Many years ago a little, well educated mouse misses her friends who have all escaped to America from a scary new […]

20/11/2016 in Chick's Review tagged America / book review / children / flying / Hamburg / invention / Kuhlmann / Lindbergh / mouse / New York / tale by PH-FLO | Open »

Going flying for a weekend is always fun – planning to do so with a group of instructors and students just adds to the usual excitement. You are not travelling in a group of friends used to each other but combine discovering new locations with also getting to know new travelling […]

When expectations turn into a lesson in patience – a ...

20/09/2016 in Chicks Abroad tagged Amiens / france / group trip / Robin / rotterdam / St Valery / VCR / vliegclub / weather by PH-FLO

Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck You want to feel young and enthusiastic again? Then get this book and get infected by the spirit of the two brothers mad about flying, brotherhood, seeing the world and finding their own ways stepping out of their father’s control. The difference between the […]

10/09/2016 in Chick's Review tagged book review / cup / memoir / piper / rinker buck by PH-FLO | Open »

It’s one minute after I’ve contacted another airplane over the radio. It had turned around back to its home base of Lelystad. I had held up my hand gesturing the other two in the plane to be quiet. At first they didn’t seem to understand why. ATC had not addressed […]

Human Factors – Chicks Resource Management in a Piper

08/09/2016 in Chick's Logbook tagged CRM / diverting / flying / get-there-itis / girls / Hamburg / human factors / IMC / Whenchicksfly by PH-KVO

Why not combining a trip to see friends in Hamburg with a little flying experience in my old home area? Well, there is only one answer…why not! After we had planned to fly there a few weeks ago, I already knew that Uetersen Heist (EDHE) was the place to go. […]

When in heaven you might regret not to have known ...

09/08/2016 in Chicks Abroad tagged C172 / Cessna / EHDE / Glückstadt / Hamburg / Heist / Uetersen by PH-FLO

Normally nobody who knows me is surprised to hear that I have people staying over. But when I explain how Sean ended up at my place, I admit to have received some surprised looks. Quite simply, he has fixed something on the dashboard before we were heading off to the bushpilot […]

Chicken wings & cricket bats

31/07/2016 in Chick's Logbook tagged cricket / Italy / SkyAfrica / South Africa by PH-FLO

“When you get your license, I will fly with you!” Sure we have all heard this before doubting however if our friends would really trust us when taking them up on it. But my friend Eva from Sweden took the dare and joined Kajsa’s husband and me on the club rallye in May 2016. […]

A sweet Swede in the Dutch sky

28/07/2016 in Chick's Logbook tagged feathered / friend / rallye / rotterdam / swede by PH-FLO

Finally it is summer time, skies are blue and sunny…and we start sweating in our cabins! Having headsets with plastic earmuffs becomes more and more uncomfortable. Yes, there are of-the-shelf cotton solutions, but somehow we have doomed them as “too standard and boring” – definitelty and very simply no chicks’ material. […]

When ears get hot – create your individual earmuffs

25/07/2016 in Chick's Logbook tagged earmuff / Headset / individual / knitting by PH-FLO

Mayday über Saragossa by Flugkapitän Heinz-Dieter Kallbach I am very glad I got this book recommended by Dieter Gerlach from the Bayreuth flying club when we met in Jo’burg. Reading about “big guys’” flying might not be the obvious choice for PPL holders, but here you get a great insight: […]

25/07/2016 in Chick's Review tagged book review / kallbach / mayday / saragossa by PH-FLO | Open »

East to the Dawn by Susan Butler A wonderfully written biography about Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) based on thorough research and information, the book starts with Amelia’s childhood, capturing her development as pioneer pilot, her amazing and record breaking flights such as the Atlantic crossing in 1928 all the way to her […]

25/07/2016 in Chick's Review tagged Amelia Earhart / book review / East to the Dawn by PH-FLO | Open »

North to the Orient by Anne Morrow Lindbergh & Charles Augustus Lindberg Without doubt Chales Lindbergh can be seen as one fo the big flying pioneers. But dud you know that his wife is as mad as he was? Fun to read about their adventures when travelling together to the […]

25/07/2016 in Chick's Review tagged book review / Lindbergh / North to the Orient by PH-FLO | Open »

You are considering to head to South Africa for some flying? After our tour in April 2016 we tried to summarize some of our experiences to help others in their preparation – and to pass on the Africa bug which has definitely caught us along the way! We have […]

Chicks meet elephant – read about our adventures in South ...

24/07/2016 in Chicks Abroad tagged Big Five / C172 / Cessna / elephant / flying / Johannesburg / Krueger Park / SkyAfrica / South Africa by PH-FLO

Visiting my friend as surprise for her birthday, it was clear that there would be some time where I would have to entertain myself as she would be at work. Well, what else to do but arrange for a flight over my old home country? I used to live in […]

Goodwood, a Trip Down Memory Lane

23/07/2016 in Chicks Abroad tagged C172 / Cessna / flying / girls / Goodwood / United Kingdom / Whenchicksfly by PH-KVO

We all know this situation: there is work to be done, but finally the weather is flyable… I called myself very lucky when our instructor and Kajsa jumped in on my idea to combine the nav flight abroad with one of my business meetings in France spontaneously. Rotterdam (NL)- Kortrijk […]

Bubbles in Reims Prunay

16/07/2016 in Chicks Abroad by PH-KVO