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pkoszegiJuly 7, 2013, 4:57pm
As last year, four of us from my flying club with a trike went to my small farmhouse to enjoy local food, spirit (all meanings), morning and evening flights.
What can I say.... as long we had enough housemade plum brandy, local sheep cheese, fresh lamb, home made oven baked bread, and fuel  to fly we were not so worried about the economical crisis.  
This is the place where theres no light pollution during the night, no noise pollution during the day and there is no air pollution 365 days in a year. You wake up at 7 am on the bells of the cows as they go to their 5-8 miles of hike for grazing, and at the evening as they come back you know its 8.30 pm. Not too much look at your wrist watch all day long... if you know what I mean. We had ugly daily schedule of having your espresso at 7.00 getting in the air 7.30 in the morning finish around 9.30, getting breakfast on our own, hike the hills, get invited by neighbours for coffee and home made cakes, doing our own lunch, than a "must to sleep" afternoon coffe and "saving the World conversations" from  5 ...7 pm.  Get in the air and watch the sunset at 9.15pm from above.
Horrible tension...
Oh ya.... washing up plates and glasses...


An other landing video, yet better quality : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFqG1mUWthY&feature=youtu.be


When we arrived the place was before harvesting the grass for the winter, and it was too high. We got our hands into the old type agriculture...
Have you ever butchered your own lamb before ? Oh yeah with some help and 55% proof plum brandy... you do things , like never before.
I cant tell you how well the Himax fits in this place. I made fast assembly pins for the wings and srut it takes 13 minutes to put her together and take her apart. I am very happy to have this aircraft and its a sheer joy to fly.


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pkoszegiJuly 7, 2013, 5:07pm
more food


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fiebichpvJuly 7, 2013, 5:27pm
Sounds like a lot of fun and a very unique experience.  Thanks for telling us about it.

Paul Fiebich
tjspindlerJuly 7, 2013, 7:05pm
I can't think of a better way to spend a day with family and friends!  It fits together so well a simple life mixed with one of the simplest forms of flight.  Thank you so much for sharing your life with us!!

Tom
RicardoJuly 7, 2013, 9:07pm
Sounds like a lot of fun, I can even smell that lamb meat. Is it Slivovitz what you drink? The strongest drink ever went down my throat!
Arthur WithyJuly 8, 2013, 12:45am
Great story and nice pictures, a wonderful holiday, and a nice adventure....looks like a short runway too...

Do you also fly trikes..? I flew Trikes for 15 years....stable machines, great in nice weather.

I think your Himax is quicker to set up than a trike.

Thanks for sharing..

regards Arthur
pkoszegiJuly 8, 2013, 4:49am
Runway is 200 m or so as it is up to the barn, I have an other 100 from the bar to the fence, but we did not clean that in this time, normally we use 150 for landing roll max, and takeoff is about 70 m. Actually when I bought the farm 6 years ago, and started to make the strip, I wanted to keep a nano trike in there. I bought this place on purpose but that time I was flying Powered Paraglider from the neightbours field. It turned out that the legislation and construction for a legal nanotrike is almost impossible. I made one, but I was forced to sell. Than I had a Ikarus C-22 like a Challenger, but it never flew with 2 person from this place.  So I gave it up and 3 years ago I got my hand on the Himax instead knowing already that this gonna be stationed here with this STOL required strip. And she indeed works very well with the 40 HP Hirth 2702. So it is also success story of how someone is getting around in all forms of personal aviation machines and ending up with a Max which is a perfect , affordable machine.



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Arthur WithyJuly 8, 2013, 9:48am
That also looks like fun....!

I flew one like that to..it belonged to a friend .....no gauges...Just feel...and a kill switch..!

regards Arthur
GarykJuly 8, 2013, 7:39pm
Tough day for the Lamb though............... great pictures, thanks for sharing.
DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLDER, IT'S A PRIVILEGE DENIED TO MANY.