Today we flew into Duxford for the day, and I took my first official / real passenger in the back seat! After Duxford we came back “the long way round” via Southend Airport before returning to Elstree All in all a very pleasant day! There are a few pics from Duxford on my blog’s gallery [...]
Well I woke up Sunday morning to a bang … … getting downstairs I found part of the kitchen ceiling .. on the kitchen floor. It seems the leak from the bath hasn’t stopped and in fact has continued to the point that the plaster gave out. So .. time to redo bits of the [...]
Went past the flying school this afternoon and popped in to say hi / see about sorting the exams. Turns out a student hadn’t turned up, and the plane was free for the next 90 minutes or so … when they said “did I fancy some flying” they didn’t have to ask twice! So we [...]
Yup… piss poor planning truly does lead to poor performance. Another flying lesson, and yet another lesson learnt! Rather than the anticipated brush up on landings in the circuit, the instructor (Ches) decided we should do some navigation. Great I thought, although it’s been 2 weeks since I’ve flown and I was a bit nervous [...]