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.

Big Helmets?

Flying at the weekend with Richard and his Dad I am reminded that I was not adventurous at all..when I first was awarded my license.

I recall a long trip was to the next airfield that was Dunkerswell to Westonzoyland, map reading all the way, getting lost over the Somerset levels while skipping field to field climbing over the hedges.

The talk was of GPS a new device that might cause more accidents as if two pilots took off one from Dunkerswell, the other from Westonzoyland they might meet half way at the same height and crash! No! We really did have that conversation in the club house fearful of these new devices!

Is that how I treat new technology in my life now, with fear? Is that how I approach new flying challenges now?