10000ft in a Warrior

[benwizz]

Many thanks for all your advice. It was clear skies the other day so I booked to go up in the afternoon with a couple of friends and made it to 10,000ft.

As there were three of us it took a while to get up there - about 25mins. Towards the end the climb rate was down to about 450 fpm.We climbed at about 85kts to help cool the engine a bit more than at max rate, and levelled off a couple of times to give the engine a rest. I had a go leaning passing about 7000ft but there wasn't much difference, and so I left it at fully rich to help cooling. A few minutes after embarassing myself over the radio with "passing FL900..... err correction FL90" we levelled off over Bridlington at FL100 and leaning the engine gave a much more noticeable rise in rpm. Had a nice view of the east Yorkshire coast, but inland was covered in low level haze so we couldn't see much looking west. We then flew to Flamborough and over the coast before turning back. Coming back down took almost as long, descended at 2000rpm and about 85kts (about 500fpm).

I took a camera with me so I thought I'd put up some of the pictures (credit to ABZ777). All in all, it was great fun and on a clear day I'd be tempted to do it again. It felt much more tranquil than bimbling along at 3000ft, and having trained in the busy airspace around Farnborough, the freedom to go that high without needing any clearance is still a novelty.