This Year - Next Year
Re Read last years post, as usual didn't get to do the things I intended, didn't go far and didn't visit France (at least not by air), the club lost the use of the 172 so I never did get to fly it in England.
I did fly twice in Tenerife in a 172, out of Reina Sofia, including a practise ILS and some interesting VFR departures.
Also flew an ex-Stapleford 152 in Heraklion. 7,000 ft to get over the mountains is hard work in a 152 on a 30 C day !!!!
Apart from that pottered around southern England, made first visits to Goodwood and Sandown and did my biannual "instruction flight" at Plymouth.
Next year ??? Who knows. What I should do is an IMC and Night ratings. I will be off to Tenerife again on Orville and Wilbur's 100th anniversary, so will be airborne in a BMI A321, shame I haven't got my "hands on" for that occasion, but at least I'll be flying.
I intend to fly the 172 again in Tenerife and then whenever I can will probably just bimble about, circumnavigating the Gatwick Zone and so on.
Whatever I do, flying will always be fun.
Have a Merry Christmas and a very airborne New Year.
Dave