Sun Jun 25, 2017 11:44 pm
#1543084
Lovely, thanks!
Mournkaye wrote:I suffered with an extreme case of getthereitis (rationale: "they had to fly in this while also being shot at so I should be able to do it") and executed my most challenging flight yet in worse-than-the-worst-forecast weather to pick my 94-year-old flight engineer & former POW up from Barton but then couldn't get out again. Totally heartbroken as the departure window for the last arrival slot came and went and my veteran returned to his home. "Next year," I said - "maybe, I'm running out of borrowed time" said he :'( I think someone was cutting onions in the Barton café that afternoon...
Really pleased everyone had a great time. I'd absolutely love to do a 'reprise' if matspart3 can pull one off!
Grumpy One wrote:Nice write up and photo in the Daily Telegraph this morning.
A massive "Well Done" .
GolfHotel wrote:Mournkaye wrote:I suffered with an extreme case of getthereitis (rationale: "they had to fly in this while also being shot at so I should be able to do it") and executed my most challenging flight yet in worse-than-the-worst-forecast weather to pick my 94-year-old flight engineer & former POW up from Barton but then couldn't get out again. Totally heartbroken as the departure window for the last arrival slot came and went and my veteran returned to his home. "Next year," I said - "maybe, I'm running out of borrowed time" said he :'( I think someone was cutting onions in the Barton café that afternoon...
Really pleased everyone had a great time. I'd absolutely love to do a 'reprise' if matspart3 can pull one off!
last year we couldn't make due weather. So I took "my" vet up for a local flight. He said its the flying he likes anyway. Luckily we made it this year.
matspart3 wrote:
(What he doesn't know - and this might push him over the edge - is that I'm already thinking of a 'reprise' for our locally-based veterans who didn't get to fly today and maybe some of those who didn't make it in due wx)
GrimReaper wrote:matspart3 wrote:
(What he doesn't know - and this might push him over the edge - is that I'm already thinking of a 'reprise' for our locally-based veterans who didn't get to fly today and maybe some of those who didn't make it in due wx)
Oh, go on then....hit me with a date....
matspart3 wrote:
Amongst those departures was a Southend-based Cherokee, G-ATTK, which was the first aircraft I ever spoke to as a student Air Traffic Controller almost 25 years ago!