Have you ever flown your glider more than km away from home? Jeroen van Dijk from Holland made such a flight last week. We interviewed him about this adventure:. This is reason enough for us to ask you a few questions for the OLC Magazine. First of all, how old are you, what flying experience do you have and what keeps you busy outside of gliding?
I am still flying at this great club and since then I have achieved just over 2. I like flying competitions, I flew in multiple national contests and one time a WGC. I still try to fly one or two contests per year and I would love to fly a WGC once again, however, at this moment, my two kids keep me busy most of the time.
My girlfriend is a glider pilot as well and that is why I am very fortunate that I can fly a lot. We bought this LS-3 in and we are very happy with it. However, your flight of Of course, the distance of km from the take-off point is particularly striking.
Tell us about the flight. Was it planned or did you decide to do it spontaneously? Jeroen: That flight started a few years before with an idea to achieve the km once conditions would make it possible. With an LS-3 it would be very hard to plan such a task with the option to make it back home, so a little wind in the back and a remote landing would be the best option. The weather forecast for It was looking like it was going to be one of the best days this year over a large area that would give the option to fly far, besides that the wind was indicated north-west, so it would give a nice average speed, but the best thing was the thermal prediction, at 9.
Each day is closer to Nevertheless, I started arranging a retriever and a tow pilot for an early flight. And I started checking airspace, terrain, notams etcetera for a task.
