Judging by tomorrow’s weather forecast, I’ll be having my first cancellation. Can’t say that I’m surprised or disappointed, since I’ve been rather expecting this.
EGBB 131647Z 140024 18010KT 9999 BKN025
TEMPO 0018 7000 RA BKN012
BECMG 0306 19018G28KT
PROB30 TEMPO 0312 4000 +RA BKN008
PROB30 TEMPO 1016 19020G38KT
BECMG 1720 22017KT
Cloud at or lower than 2,500 ft all day with [...]
Another day of clear skies, my run of good fortune with the weather can’t last for much longer. In fact, looking at the forecast for the coming week, it looks like it’s at an end and I’m due some cancellations!
Arrived at the airfield early and had some lunch in the cafe while watching people [...]
Beautiful flying weather this morning, nothing more than a light breeze and virtually clear blue skies. Didn’t worry about phoning ahead, and set off straight after dropping my partner at work so that I’d be there in plenty of time; mindful of the traffic last week!
Turns out that I didn’t even have to worry [...]
After the recent heavy rainfall and flooding, I really didn’t expect to be flying today; especially since the airfield was a little wet a few days ago. The weather forecast throughout the week was quite hopeful, fairly consistently indicating no worse than light showers, and this remained true this morning.
Of course, the sky outside [...]
Some pictures taken by David during my first flight…
I’d spent the entire month since making the booking preparing myself for the disappointment of it being cancelled due to weather, and having to rebook and wait another few weeks.
The weather report the day before wasn’t too bad, and the weather outside looked pretty nice. A fair amount of high fluffy cloud, but good [...]
EGBB 131607Z 140024 19014KT 9999 BKN025
TEMPO 0002 7000 -RA BKN010
BECMG 0811 26015KT
PROB30 TEMPO 0919 26015G25KT 7000 -SHRA
A thirty percent probability of light showers tomorrow, with cloud base at 2,500ft.
As my nan used to say, it’s got two chances…
Look what happens; the whole world goes “carbon neutral” mad, planting trees and burning Jeremy Clarkson instead of Fossil Fuels and what do we get? A summer so wet that you can pick up the “dropped sausage” as it floats past the barbecue. I want the global warming back, at least then it [...]
Having made the decision to learn to fly, the next task in hand was to find somewhere that would teach me!
Being a computer programmer for a living, the first place I turned to for advice was the good old Interwobble. The first instinct is just to type “flying schools” into Google and see what [...]
As my mother reminded me when I announced my intention to learn to fly, when I was a child I firmly wanted to be a pilot!
Comes from growing up under the Gatwick flight-path I guess, when playing out in the garden would be regularly interrupted by an over-flying jet.
Unfortunately this was a dream I had [...]
