Hi FB
My sorties in the Vintage Massey Ferguson are almost exclusively VFR, towing a triple gang mower to cut the strip grass weekly during the Summer.
I have done one IFR sortie but the grass got so wet the cutters stalled and I had to abandon the sortie.
Wind drift is not usualy a problem but during the Hurricane of 1989 I am relably in formed we harvested half the adjacent Farmers oilseed rape.
But then the idea of a 500HP Volvo diesel tractor with air con , air suspension and Hi-Fi does sound appealing: for a few grand we should get Sat Nav as well.
Nah- not really - its hard to beat the smell of burnt tractor fuel and the sound of skylarks on a late summer evening while the strip flyers circle overhead blipping their engines to get you off the strip for a landing.
Safe flying
Cusco.
Last edited by Cusco; 14th May 2003 at 23:56.