Great flight today.
No Guys, not my QXC, still waiting for a hole in this lousy weather, 22 attempts canned so far!! (honestly!), though I'm too pretty laid back about it now.
I now belong to the Daventry Flying Circle (set up just before Xmas by a bunch of flying enthusiasts from the Daventry area) - it's great, we meet once a month for a meal, and usually have a guest speaker etc. The group is mixed with a couple of local Virgin captains - 747/A340 - and others flying all sorts from gliders to Dakotas, and many from GA. Anyway, one of the chaps phoned today to see if I would like to go flying in his virtually new Robin DR400 (he's also got an R44 and several vintage planes). Obviously I leaped at the chance. What a fab plane the Robin is - 11/10th inside and out, autopilot equipped and quick for a fixed u/c job at 135kts cruise.
We flew from his private strip near Banbury and went to Shobdon where a great bacon sarny and a cuppa was very welcome.
On the way back I flew it - it was very different from the normal Warrior, and flying with a stick, and from the right hand seat felt very odd indeed. I made a bit of a hash of the circuit back into the strip before I handed over, off centre line (stronger than anticipated wind on base), too high and too fast (it just wouldn't slow down, it's a very slippery aircraft), so he had to go around!!
Oh well, I guess I had plenty of excuses!! All in all a great day out.
Good luck all, and well done again Mazzy - hope I'm not too far behind yoy,
CF