[matspart3]

Post or message me your registrations on Friday and I’ll pencil you in with ATC. Fill up with fuel (we’ll actually do this while you lot tuck in) and I’ll waive the landing fee.

Sorry I can’t join you all folks, have a good one.

[G-JANN]

G-JANN
I Should be arriving about 12.30

[Kemble Pitts]

My attendance now looking shaky but i hope it is a jolly gathering.

MATS Pt 3 at his usual positive best. Excellent stuff.

[matspart3]

Sorry I can’t be there tomorrow, it’s a rare day off for me!

Please do buy a raffle ticket from the Reception Desk in the Terminal for the excellent fly2help Spitfire hamper prize, which includes a signed copy of Geoffrey Wellum’s First Light, an Airfix Spitfire, two bottles of the beer of the same name, a rather fine bottle of single malt and a free landing fee to fly in and pick it up after the draw on 22nd!

[Iceman]

I will be inbound from Thruxton in the Robin, arriving by about 1200. I might just have to buy a raffle ticket .

Iceman

[morticiaskeeper]

Woke up with the opening bars of man flu. Don't want to send it to the four corners so I'm going back to bed.

[Pete L]

Looking increasingly likely assuming the a/c doesn't throw a strop for being left in the hangar for 3 months. 12:30ish - last time I did an early flight in these conditions the a/c iced up after getting it out

[Dave W]

Have fun, everyone: I am just leaving by road in a direction orthogonal to that for Gloucester, in order to enjoy the wonders of the Westbound A303, Highway to the Sun.

That raffle prize sounds great.

[kanga]

Good to meet or remeet everyone

[johnm]

Agreed! Half of us were a Raduno at Asiago reunion too

[Jenny]

Good to see everyone... and thanks to Gloucester for having us

Jenny

[alexbrett2]

Indeed - it was a very nice afternoon out.

I did have to double check the W&B before leaving though with the fuel taken (both the full tanks in the aircraft and the amount of steak and cake I had at The Aviator)

[Iceman]

Great to meet up with everybody on a cold winter's day where the weather played kindly with us with blue skies and the sight of snow-covered high ground over Wales.

Sorry that I was late arriving but one cannot turn down an opportunity to unite Paul Sengupta with lunch so a quick diversion from Thruxton to Blackbushe to become Robin FN 'heavy' to Gloucester was in order. With two large lunch and pudding uplifts for the crew and 60 litres of fuel for the aircraft, we needed Gloucester's long 27 runway for the Robin FN 'super heavy' flight back to the Bushe.

Thanks to the Aviator which managed a good job with the food despite being packed (G-JJAN got an unexpected pudding ) and to Matspart3 for the free landings .

I hope that the aircraft that caught fire (over primed) at the fuel pumps, prompting the quick attention of the fire crews, was ok.

Iceman

[G-JANN]

I was nice to meet up with some friends

[Waveflyer]

Only just spotted this thread. Sorry I missed it, I bet that was a good meeting.