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Old 3rd Jun 2004, 07:23
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The Nr Fairy
 
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Early start - wx crap, so find a cup of coffee, read the paper. Look at the wx, decide it's improved enough to have a go. Take off - it's actually pants - so land again at departure point. Hobbs hasn't moved.

An hour later - decide it's improved enough. Get far enough away from the airfield to be unable to see it, down to 300' AGL, in and (mostly, thankfully) out of the bottoms of cloud. Go head up after looking inside at something - GPS, I think (!) - and think "****, I know there are wires round here somewhere".

Find wires - fly over the top of a pylon, and thinking "This is really silly". A few minutes later I'm in a field, safe and sound if a bit shaken, ringing the boss to say I'm going to be late.

Made the decision to land FAR too late - should have waited the 40 minutes it took for the weather to clear through and do it in one hop.
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