Not a Model... But nearly...
Flying practice instruments in winter NE of Odiham and NW of Farnborough I thought I saw something skip into a cloud a mile or two ahead. I alerted the LHS to my "feeling" and we watched out. Turned out I was neither hallucinating nor drunk...
Some eejut had decided that it would be a brilliant idea to :-
- Go skipping in and out of clouds at 3500', (pretty much the perfect mid-level for practice IFR between two busy(ish) airfields)
- Do it pretty much on the two main runway headings, (departure heading of Farnborough and approach heading for Odiham)
- Do it in -10C temps, (so no-one would expect him to be there 'cos he'd have to be mentally deficient to do so)
- With no radio
- Being almost invisible to all radar
on/in his frigging Microlight...
Bearing in mind there were both Chinooks and Pumas in the air at the time the resultant collision would have been the much the same as hitting a model with the welcome addition of some nice "squishy, coloured stuff".
