G'day and welcome to my Soaring blog! I'm a glider pilot and instructor at the Gliding Club of WA, based in the Western Australian wheatbelt town of Cunderdin. I went solo in early 2013 and rapidly worked my way up to being let off the leash to fly cross country. This blog is primarily a personal journal of my notes and comments on the lessons I've learned and my impressions and opinions of soaring flight; although I welcome all readers and comments :)
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Gold!!
In my last post I mentioned that I'd passed the requirements for the FAI Silver Badge, and that I'd also completed two of the three requirements for the Gold Badge. Well, it seems that I may have made a small miscalculation - the GFA, upon scrutinising my submitted flight trace, contacted me to advise that I had actually made a large enough climb to qualify for my Gold height gain, and thus I was awarded my Gold Badge as well as the Silver!! As a bonus, I've also been awarded the first of my three Diamonds, for completing a declared task flight exceeding 300km. More soon!
Labels:
Cross Country,
GCWA,
Gliding,
Solo
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