Day: February 25, 2012

It was a lovely flying day today with wind from the north west at about 7 gusting 10 mph. So today I planned a flight over towards Brentwood in Essex then around clockwise to Billericay and South Woodham Ferrers before returning to Stoke via Canvey Island. I’ve shown the planned route in the pic below.

And today I had the pleasure of the company of my friend Mary who was to have her first flight in a microlight, so it was a good day for it with only a modest wind and little by the way of gusts and bumps. We took off on runway 06 but could have gone off in either direction as the wind was more or less at 90 degrees to the runway. The flight went off exactly as planned and in fact we saw very little in the way of other traffic despite the fine conditions. When we joined overhead at Stoke I decided to take runway 24 for landing as it seemed to me that there was a bit more of nose wind vector on that heading, but it was a close thing. But anyway, we landed safely after a very enjoyable flight of 1 hour 15 minutes and after a a bit of chat and banter with a few friends in the club hut, headed for home. Another really fun flight 😉