Aviation Tour - Maps on www.bankleft.com

To sharpen up our dead reckoning nav skills and to see how the Germans undertake such things, we took part in a precision flying event at Neubrandenburg. This is like orienteering in the air, the aim being to fly exactly on track and on time around a course, while identifying ground features from a sheet of photos received 30 minutes before take off time. Good fun. Wolf, who organised the event and extremely kindly invited us to stay with him and his wife Silka, is a former DDR Mig fighter pilot and now trains the German federal police in shooting and assault tactics. It was excellent to hear his stories about flying jets around East Germany before reunification.

The other competitors were slightly bemused by the appearance of two Australians and they presented us with an award for having attended from the farthest place, plus we won our division (because the precision landing part of the event that I totally bolloxed up wasn't counted in the final score). We'll have to post the trophies home and pick out some charts to spend our pilot shop voucher prize on :)





This nice old Czech two stroke was great to boot around the street on. Wolf found it in a barn and fixed it up recently.