Once again the weather dashes the best laid plans. Check out these charts, showing crappy weather in the UK, our route to Sweden or Sweden itself.
We only have 12 days before I have to be back at work, and the long range forecast showed that we would have arrived at Siljan Air Park just after we needed to set off to come back.
It seems that work is getting in the way of holidays. We’re working on THAT little problem right now…more news to come.
Dan Roach, in his flying blog has this to say about weather:
So I had booked a days holiday and I had access to money and I had an aircraft booked. So what? Yes these are all things I can control. But I can’t control the weather, if I could I wouldn’t be an IT consultant any more…
Given that I can’t control the weather, there really is no point in getting upset when it doesn’t conform to the plan that I had in my head. I realise this is easier said than done in lots of circumstances, but if you face life with a smile on your face you really will be happier.
So, no flight to Sweden this time. In our aircraft at least. I say that ‘cos we’ve booked seats on Norwegian to Stockholm. There is no way we are going to miss the fly in / airshow / party this year.
One good thing about flying commercial is that Rory is coming too. Rory, also known as “The world’s coolest copilot” …
…although his coolness is somewhat hampered by the occupant of the other seat…
He’d better not complain though, he’s getting a free summer crayfish party and airshow in Sweden. Just don’t mention the clean up afterwards…