Officially Excited! - Flying the Alps in less than 10 days!

Gotcha!

What your looking at here is a "Gotcha" today its howling outside, and I am preparing my machine for the French trip, between now and then, a family holiday, work commitments mean that I wont be flying, this weekend is it. There is a short list of things to do, following a flight last night over USS George Bush (pictures to follow), the wing trim failed. While fixing it this morning we had to strip the whole machine down which meant I looked at the fuel filter from both sides otherwise I might have missed this crack.

From Thorney Island we are planning to take off and head south over 58 miles of water to Cherbourg, if the the glass in this filter had failed due to the vibration, there were two outcomes, wet feet and may be a fire. Hmm!

French Altiports - The Preparation - 26 days to go

Today the prep begain in ernest, 26 days to go and the compression test conducted on the engine today is in harmony with last years results and so a clean bill of heath for then pots and valves on "GCDSA" the jobs that remain..
- Remove and Clean Filters
- Balance Carbs

- Change the Oil & Filter

- Check all hose connections

- Silicon all rubber bits

- NikWax Solar the Wing (again)

- Fit my FlyCom units