After weeks of cursing the weather I managed to get a flight in from Netherthorpe to Peterborough Conington this weekend in preparation for my QXC. Played dodge the cloud on the way there with an acceptable landing and all the fun of paying £10 to use the loo and get back in the air
On the way back I resumed cloud dodging and all was well until my radio conked out over Newark (around half way) so did the rest of the flight squawking 7600 and flying at 1800ft to stay out of Doncaster's way. Got back and did an overhead join with much looking around for other traffic and got down safely.
I'm glad my first equipment failure happened with an instructor in the plane, not sure I would have been as calm on my own though the procedures from the training came straight to mind so at least that has sunk in.