Sunday 16 August 2009

Treeborough Farm - Exmoor

Taking off from Farway Common the conditions were a little "joggly" with a ceiling of cloud at around 2500feet with great horizontal viz. It was a delight to see the Devon hills rolling out in front of us a welcome sight after 24hrs on then deck. We formed up on Brian in a lose Diamond Formation and flows this for 30 minutes across Devon looking for an airfield we only knew the rough location for! Never the less it was 2nm north of two lakes which were relatively easy to find. I recall a holiday with Charlotte as we fly over the reservoir before kids we had a VW and slept over night and biked around the reservoir, I find myself remembering those precious days as we fly overhead.
Treeborough comes up on the nose and Brian now practiced at using the Bar for Speed and Power for Height gently formed the Diamond to intersect the runway 25 overhead at 2000ft, we split and completed a standard over head join. Two landing Long, two landing Short we are all on the deck in unison. Compliments flow from the PFA on the ground who said the formation and break were "great to watch", "Very tidy formation" "Just like a red arrows formation break to land"...... AH! an ambition is forming.... and as the price of Quiks lowers might become a reality...
Its raining, occasionally and the sky is lowering, now the decision onward or retreat? The wind had gone out of my sails as we had been stranded at Farway and the clearer Sky's to the east called me to follow Colin and Brian home, via Old Sarum.

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