Matthias after a long flight. Nothing like a cold Heineken after the action. 
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- Jáco Herbst
- Ke-Tze Liau, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
- I was born in Walvisbay, Namibia and I grew up in the Republic of South-Africa. I have been living in Taiwan since 2001. I hope to return to my beautiful home country one day.
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- Zipping up my harness
- more about the author
- Matthias after a long flight. Nothing like a cold ...
- and another one of my fans! ;-)
- Saichia's launch as seen from the LZ
- one of the pretty girls (Tracey Lo) from up north.
- on my way to launch
- the launch from 1000m. Sai Chia in Ping Tung County
- That is the landing zone in the top left hand corn...
- Weighing in at the competion where I was the wind ...
- The Man...GIN SEOK SONG. Name dropping? We had a g...
- My other instructor, David Lo
- My instructor...Er Ge
- Yep...that's me!
- more local pilots
- The locals
- and why is Matthias so big?
- Meet the pilots
- My home site landing zone or LZ
- My Atlas is very old. 20 years I'd reckon. Lot ...
- Landing in a restricted field. Note the powerlines...
- Landing in Liukwei. 30km cross country flight with...
- You have to crawl before you walk. The Fiat Tringo...
- My girlfriend's car. a Fiat tringo. And did the pe...
- just took off
- checking things out. As usual not a lot of traffic.
- This is what I want to fly in the not too distant ...
- my vario and gps is in my face.
- My longest flight ever . 104km. In South-Africa ne...
- This would've been an excellent picture had the le...
- if you ever thought flying was dangerous, check ou...
- my better half Rosaline (Chen Li-ling)...she works...
- my first glider...this is a single surface glider....
- flying with eagles... this happens quite often (sh...
- about to take off... I started flying paragliders...
- my blog is taking off
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5 comments:
Wow, great! I've been wanting to go do this for a long time. I've been in Kaohsiung over 2 years but thought you had to fly from Hua Lien... too far.
I'll be out one weekend soon, do they rent gliders? I've been skydiving and I have my gliders (airplane) license, still don't know what I'm doing, but more than willing to try.
Colin.
Colin
We go almost every weekend and you are welcome to join me to see what exactly it's about.
Get in touch with me and we can take it from there. my no is 096 1069 721.
Cheers
Jaco
Cool, two things:
1. What is a "cunimb"?
2. The time on your site is off, it's set to somewhere in N.America. If you set the location to Taiwan, the time stamp on the commments will be to Taiwan time.
1."cunimb" is short for CUMULONIMBUS,
which is - without getting too technical - a thunderstorm. A thunderstorm is just an overgrown thermal cloud (cu or cumulus)that keeps pumping in humid conditions. They are dangerous, cause they can exhibit very high winds, severe turbulence,lightning, strong recipitation and CLOUDSUCK(lift too strong to get away from)
They are to be avoided at all times (when flying your hg or pg)
2.Timeset...I thought my location was set as Taiwan. I'll see if I can change it. If it doesn't change in the next 24 hours, please help me out then.
Cheers
Jaco
(is that you, Les?
No, it was me, Colin.
Forgot to put my name.
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