Wednesday 28 April 2010

Snow - "Van Furen" - Goose

And so the story goes that I was heading to Colemore and on 129.825 I hear Gustie and Johnny en route too! Gustave is nailing "Suky" as hard to get there and be ready to tie down his acquisition! He is followed by Johnny in this early Microlight. An enthusiastic Gustie who I do believe and sell anything to anyone, was oozing joy at this new toy, the engineer who designed it also designed other flying bricks etc etc etc... It came from EBay and arrived via a three day expedition from the Lake district to be at Colemore traveling at 60 with a 30 knot headwind! Tied down for the night its real prize was the Blue Top 582 under that biscuit tin cowling. Given it cost circa £1500, I recon that without the engine its worth minus £250 quid ;-)) Never the less, Gustie is in love with this G - MVIL and it down wind swagger

Oil Seed - Rape

What a wonderful night to fly, Altocirrus cloud (yes the bore of clouds) and the oil seed rape just comeing into colour, fields massed together at Hurst Lane Privit, will be in full boom by the weekend

Saturday 24 April 2010

Gentlemen's Flying Carrage!

Podless triking, the perfect summer passtime. 30 minutes of bumbling
up and down the south coast on a sunny day is food for the soul. Dangling your feet in mid air and landing at 20 mph is just wild! I am a convert for the way things used to be...

Volcanic Ash - Evidence

Last week we flew in the "Ash Cloud and thought we could see a tinge to the
cloud layers. Arriving at the hangers today the Microlight has a layer
of dark dust on the leading edges and uprights! Its difficult to show on a photo but there are smudges and extra collections that can be seen.....

Sunday 18 April 2010

Underground Flying

If you look closely at the first photo, you will spot the microlight. The question is this, are we flying underground? I have a few flying ambitions left and one of them is to fly underground, today we found a series of quarry's in Somerset and flew inside them, below ground level, so were we flying underground? I think so, one more off the list.

Friday 9 April 2010

Steve Walker - Bager Farm - Dorset
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My Mecca...



Setting out today to fly the Jurassic Coast my mission was a pilgrimage to Dunkerswell. I earned my wings there under the stewardship of Jim Greenshields who is to this day runs the school which is now a thriving business, with two hangers packed with Flex and Fixed wing.

At the end of my first log book, I had amassed around 400hrs over a nine year period including the break I took from flying for five years. The firs to second was significant too me I though I should make the last flight recorded the one back to Dunkerswell, so as to return to the first entry. I could buy my next log book too and have the old one endorsed by the person who inspired me in the first place.

So it was natural that as I pass from log book number Two to Number Three that the first and last flights should be from there too...

Setting of this morning in still air I need a pee by Dorset, and find a new field called "Eyre" a friendly welcome, some setting up on the wing to do too, I am off on the second leg to Dunkerswell with a new field in my book too! I spent the day with Jim and Alexter and the now 3 year old Will, my how kids mark time. A wander over to pay my landing fee and buy lunch and soon its time to go, planning complete, Steve a new friend from Blandford Forum texts to say he is flying , we meet up at Bager Farm the second new field in the day, set up and fly the silky afternoon air together.

What a wonderful day to fly, what a great day to meet new friends, and what a day to remember back 13 years to that first flight at Dunkerswell, my piloting mecca.
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