Some people say that we are coming into the start of the flying season. They should have told the weather man…
It hasn’t been 100% doom and gloom, there have been some nice days:
Looking north up the A9 road towards Pitlochry…
A little bit of low cloud caused a reroute. Not that there WAS a route as such, just a bimble around the countryside. Also known as FACIT – F*** About, Call It Training…
Nobody about on the traffic radar:
We spotted smoke on the hills and wandered over to have a look:
If we’d been in the Cub we could have flown around pretending to call in artillery fire, like 2nd Lieutenant Walter Mitty.
The Cub is still grounded. I went to visit the engineer who is doing the repair and it looks like it’ll be complete late summer.
But in slightly better news, it will probably be a splice repair, not a whole spar.
In the meantime we can still wander round the countryside like this
A few days after the previous flight, it was so gloomy that this was the view of the airfield from the downwind leg:
We landed off that circuit!
Aaaand…normal service is resumed!
