Ridge soaring in VSO-10

Today I’ve spent two hours soaring on the range of mountains known in Czech Republic as “Železné hory”. These are part of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands right in the basin of the river Elbe. It’s not coincidence that my home airport “Podhořany” is located at the same place. Yes, I recently renewed my GLD licence. However I’m a glider pilot since 15 years old, I didn’t practice gliding for a few…

Saturday morning was dull, with huge banks of grey cumulus cloud cutting off the sun. But in the afternoon it cleared, and the evening turned to perfect summer weather, only with some isolated showers. I ate my breakfast in silence, and not much of it. Toasts with jam doesn’t sit too well on a excited stomach. Worrying about the weather I packed my luggage in case we won’t return back today. That…

Sometimes to return safely back home despite the challenging weather is just lucky coincidence. And that’s exactly what happened to us on Saturday while participating at Airshow Praha Kbely. And despite that, we made one German man very happy. Hello, my name is Ben So one day, I’ve been contacted by Ben who was claiming to be an aviation enthusiast from Germany. He said he loves Aeros aircrafts…

I’m sunburned and exhausted but at the same time, I have a sore, warm and tender feeling of satisfaction in my heart that it was worth it.  The 25th Aviation Fair in Pardubice is over and it was more than just good. It was great! The program was great and big thanks thanks for the conception of the airshow belongs to Jan Rudzinskyj.  It was also the second time as I’ve seen him as a part of the…

I just came back from the Czech Fury 2015 and after a descent ammount of a sleep, I’m able to transform some of my collected thoughts from the ink to the digital form.

The WWII Experience

The Czech Fury 2015 was the reenactment event of the US 4th and the 16th Armored Divisions, fighting the Germans and advancing towards the demarcation line to liberate the city of Pilsen and to meet with the…

It’s my pleasure to hereby announce that after the winter of discontent, we are now all ready for the summer season 2015. Here at our little base in Czechland. And things has been progressing rather nicely. We just received a new ‘toy’, the Piper L-4 Grasshopper.

In the fleet of our twins Aero-145 and L-200 Morava, such a small 1944 taildrager for fun flying, has been missing. Hoovering in 80kts…

It’s early Saturday morning. Foggy patches are melting down with orange sunrise over the hills and I stand at the doors of hangar with cup of tea and Weetabix biscuit in my hand. It’s a complete silent, just a chilly morning wind blows. And I convince myself, how significant are these quiet moments of self-reflection.

I’m in countryside, on grass strip airport far from civilization. Far from big…

"May the dreams defy the laws of gravity." My new blog post ✌️ #AvGeek

Last few weeks have been for me just like the lyrics of the song Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel. My girlfriend, which I loved so much, recently broke up with me. And as I’ve been regreting the lost, I also got robbed in the night club. One can say pretty Troubled Water.

And than I’ve been offered a jump seat in a full motion simulator of Boeing 737. I spent there many and many…

Happy New Year 2014 first of all. Whether it's for you "Feliz Año Nuevo" or "あけおめ", "Bonne Année" or "Glückliches Neues Jahr", let's be just grateful for another one!

After initial joy and following foggy recovery, shall we say a slight embarrassment comes into our consideration. Yes here we go with our routine new year resolutions.

I suggest it's not difficult for you to guess what kind of which can ATPL trainee pilot have. So obviously "wish number one" is a proper full time AIRLINE JOB. I just made account on the Professional Pilots Rumour Network (PPRuNe). Follow me there so we can exchange knowledge and experiences.

I also added into list TO LEARN FRENCH language properly. I will make it this time! Duolingo is helping me a lot. Follow me to track my performance! After some time I'm also going to try Babbel, iTalki, Busuu, Verbling and Livemocha all online learning tools for daily learning.

So far I also decided to push harder in a gym and at last once for ever TO TONE A BODY. I'm going into to gym for over two years now and I suppose I should be more pedantic on myself. It all starts with nutrition which I ignored till now so, let's focus on this issue. I'm going to build my body and run as well. Follow me on Nike+ and on BodyBuilding.com as well.

Last but equally important is my last resolution and that's TO READ MORE BOOKS. I'm annoyed with time one could spend messing around on the internet, not doing anything really. I'm going to dust off GTD Time Management method and make it reading my habit. See how does it going to me on my Goodreads Profile.

I'm going to succeed and accomplish these four things but I will need motivation and inspiration and I will be glad for your support!

As a weapon of choice I decided to routinely update this blog of mine and share my progress. So please follow me on my journey through accomplishment of my 2014 resolutions.

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - CHRISTOPHER REEVE

"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other."