Biggles flies undone*
"Algy, I don't like it here one bit" shouted the intrepid aviator to his trusty but blind navigator. " We seem to be in the thick of it!"
" I thought that maybe by routing across the Forth, just to the east of the airport we might avoid these heavies around Edinburgh, slip under the Leuchars radar and have a clear run to sunny Kinross, somewhere near bonny Dundee." Trilled the Algy.
" aye, right...." came the dulcit tones of the ATC " ...what the **** do you think you are doing? You've completely screwed up my approach!"
"Wilco, roger.... oh , erm... request FL90 routing via somewhere near Dundee to Kinross, I think, on a heading of....uhm...Northish" responded Algy whose right finger was following a thick chinagraph line haphazardly drawn on a A-Z Map of Scotland. " at least that's what the GPS says."
" Are you sure Dundee Airport has bunkers and trees, old boy? I'm thinking we should maybe pop in for a spot of fuel and maybe, check our directions? According, to my flight plan we should be visual with Inverness by now. Bugger, more of that low cloud!" Biggles turned to Algy, whose white scarf billowed in the wind as he gingerly stepped out of the aircraft onto the shaking bough of a rather sturdy oak tree.
" It's Okay Capt. Good news! These chaps out here say that we're in a wrecked airplane forty feet up a tree. Bad news, is that the club captain says they have a dress rule and a £5 fine for wearing dayglo vests!"
"phew....for one awful moment there I thought I might have to make an emergency landing onto these rather fetching fairways - on such a lovely clear day, perfect for golf. I hope we didn't put anyone off their stroke" replied Biggles, surveying the scant remains of his latest aerial mount " Still, once we get this kite patched up we should still make Kinloss for tea!"
"Kinloss? questioned Algy as he tripped carelessly towards the 15th green, "I thought were going to Kinross! If I had know you wanted to fly over the Cairngorms I might have filled the tanks this morning! It can get a bit edgy up there you know."
"never mind old bean, I'm still new at this game, we'll have another go in the morning"
* Title courtesy of Mony Python