ONE OF THOSE FLIGHTS......
Friday 15/12/00 HAD to do it-weather superb. Took dog on first flight too! He slept through most of it. Heard about Welshpool, so went for it! White Waltham-Welshpool in a straight line, climbing with the TMA upto 5000', all the waypoint timings/headings/positions worked out. Never been there b4 and the NDB just kicked in before I spotted the field from about a mile away. Interesting bottom scraping cct! Little choice on parking as most of it flooded!!
Quick walk of dog, cup of tea and choc bar + chat to a couple of old boys up from Cardiff. Then back via BCN upto FL60, over snow capped Beacons and tempted to fly down the Elan valley resevoir Dambusters style. Cardiff handed me to Filton who handed me to Lyneham while I watched a C130 3 ship formation (think they may have been Star Trek formation I heard earlier working Shawbury, join Xwind beneath me and then flydownwind and finals to land -lovely sight!)who handed me to Benson -WHAT a helpful lot -may have been because I reported flight levels instead of height? I don't know -any opinions on that?
Air v smooth and just used trim and a dab on rudder most of the time.
Awesome amount of flooding deen everywhere, actual rivers difficult to spot!
Another 2hrs 20 in the book. I NEEDED that!!