Hersham Boy
9th Jun 2003, 19:02
Saturday morning - got the Archer booked to take the other half up for a jolly to Earles Colne - have a gander at Brands, Thames Estuary, Essex countryside and try out the new headset I bought her.
10.30 comes and LGW ATIS (I'm flying from Redhill) reporting 800-900' cloudbase. Pretty manky all around, so decide to wait it out.
12.00pm - ATIS reporting cloudbase barely scraping 1000'. Thinks: will leave it 30 more minutes.
12.30pm - no visible change. Still dark black in the direction of Essex. Call club, scrub booking, shake fist at skies, go inside to sulk.
Sit down in front of a film I'd taped and been meaning to watch for ages. Crack open consolation beer to accompany movie.
Within 5 minutes of finishing beer (no exaggeration whatsoever), blue patches start to appear. Within 30 minutes, it's blue over East Surrey. Within an hour, it's blue everywhere.
And I've sunk a beer. :{ I could have cried...
So... next time I'm about to cancel a plane due to weather, I'm going to post first. Watch out for the message and you will be able to 24ct guarantee that the Wx will be perfect wherever it was I was going to go. :hmm:
Hersh
10.30 comes and LGW ATIS (I'm flying from Redhill) reporting 800-900' cloudbase. Pretty manky all around, so decide to wait it out.
12.00pm - ATIS reporting cloudbase barely scraping 1000'. Thinks: will leave it 30 more minutes.
12.30pm - no visible change. Still dark black in the direction of Essex. Call club, scrub booking, shake fist at skies, go inside to sulk.
Sit down in front of a film I'd taped and been meaning to watch for ages. Crack open consolation beer to accompany movie.
Within 5 minutes of finishing beer (no exaggeration whatsoever), blue patches start to appear. Within 30 minutes, it's blue over East Surrey. Within an hour, it's blue everywhere.
And I've sunk a beer. :{ I could have cried...
So... next time I'm about to cancel a plane due to weather, I'm going to post first. Watch out for the message and you will be able to 24ct guarantee that the Wx will be perfect wherever it was I was going to go. :hmm:
Hersh