Well, having flown to the Isle of Man a couple of weeks ago – I’d set my next mile stone as an instrument approach into Malaga figuring that would take me a year or so, I’d need to get my IR rating, save up and be able to afford the fuel / hire / etc … so yes, it was going to take me a year or so.
Well, then Cliff said “fancy coming to Spain on Thursday” … yes sure, we can go through a bunch of things we needed to talk over and plan, and get some work done – and I can top up my tan.
So Thursday lunch time, we depart North Weald in N666EX (me in right seat) .. and fly down to Spain. We did the trip in 2 legs with a fuel stop in France.
The whole trip took about 7 hours .. and yes, Cliff was actually flying / doing the landings .. but I can at least say I’ve been in the front and “experienced” an SEP/IR approach into Malaga slotting in between big jets going at almost twice our speed!
So the next step .. is to do it myself, as PIC … but that will be a while I suspect 
We have a bunch of pictures, which I’ll upload in a few days time once they’ve been downloaded and reviewed.
