Well, the glastar found it’s new owner. He is from Sweden. Gotland to be precise. So the it will spend a lot of time over the sea in its future life. Really sad seeing it go, it is a really nice aircraft.

The buyer Mats had no tail wheel experiance whatsoever but flew acceptable within an hour(he got talent, we had a 15kt crosswind!) and he has the mindset of a really safe pilot. But his CFI wont sign him of (we are now into the second day anf a few hours later). Personally I think the CFI is just trying to earn more money…
I never fully understand why some CFI’s think it is their job to make their students perfect. Personally I settle for safe, the road to perfection takes practise and that a normal pupil does not need a CFI in the right seat to do.

Was over in Copenhagen, Denmark at that tiny WWII strip usually closed to the public.

The event was enjoyable as usual but even more fun was the trip back. Flew in formation with a Tiger Moth and the weather was really bad with entbedded CB’s and all. But Copenhagen tower asked us to cross their airspace at 500ft.

And since their airspace includes part of the oeresund bridge (the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark) we actually flew at a flightlevel below the pylons (600ft AGL) of the bridge. And in a part of the world where flying below 1500ft is basically forbidden that is fun. In moments like this I do miss the US flying over the desert at a very low level in a perfectly legal way..
Only downside of yesterday was that the combination of weather and formation flying disabled me from getting any good pictures.

But once again I do really appriciate the Glastar. I was the only “modern” aircraft at that airfield since the strip is so short. I flew formation with a sub 70kt airplane and then used my tiny 120Hp engine to get a TAS at almost twice that on the remaining leg after leaving the Moth… There are not many designs that could handle all that..

OK, I know I keep repeating myself here But there is something special with being able to land pretty much anywhere….

Just a few Glastar pics rescued from the previous blog.