Sun Aug 01, 2021 12:26 pm
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We made it from Duxford.
The cloud base stuck at 1800’ all the way there and we had to fly around a few showers, which were well defined and a few miles across.
Till we got near Gloucester and there was a massive one, just north of our track.
We considered whether we’d have been able to go around it if it straddled our route, decided we could have (by spending 5 minutes flying north behind it) and then pressed on.
It was worth it, the hills/scenery/topology around Sleap is amazing, especially if you usually fly over the flatness of the south east.
Thank you to Ian and the team for the tea, coffee and cakes and the warm welcome.
Really nice to see everyone.
Our journey home was a zig zag around showers/storms, but all well defined, we’d already discussed that gethomeitis would not be an issue, and we were prepared to land anywhere and then sort things out if we needed to.
Got home just fine in the end, and even did a detour to look at some rainbows on the way.
4.5 hours flying in 1 day is my new record.
Was challenging, but worth it.
When / where is the next one ?