Disappointing news

Up until last night I was still trying to keep a faint hope alive that I’d be able to fly the Savannah down from la Ferté Gaucher to Galinat this coming Friday but this morning I’ve finally had to admit that it isn’t on. When I last flew 56NE a few days ago, the runway at Galinat was too soft other than to do one take off and landing and with the rain that we’ve had since then, including another good soaking last night, it’s probably border-line flyable at best and more likely too soft to be absolutely safe.

Also, when I last spoke with Mandy at Wanafly, where I want to land for a break on the way down, she said that their runway, which they’re not using at the moment, is really too boggy to use, so it would be a bit unfair to force myself on them, especially if by doing so I marked up their runway for when they do want to start using it for training flights.

Couple that with the uncertainty of getting more than a one-day weather window to make the flight on account of forecast high, gusting winds and more rain, and ultimately common sense must prevail, even though I feel like a kid who knows that he’s getting a nice present for Christmas but has to wait until the big day before getting his hands on it! But on the up-side as Robert at la Ferté said this morning, at least there the aircraft is in a nice warm, dry hangar and as I couldn’t fly it if it was down here anyway because of continuing unsettled weather, that’s surely the best place for it to be.

But even so, even so… 🙁

So now what? Well, partly it’s a good thing because now I can concentrate on my house improvement work, which is really what I should be doing anyway. And I’m glad to say that things seem to be coming on a treat. I’m still heavily involved in the work to create an initial model of my house, because I think that if I can do that and produce some meaningful drawings and plans, then it won’t be that big a step to go on and create an extended model incorporating the extension and changes that I want to make, together with the associated drawings and plans.

I think that I’m making pretty good progress and slowly but surely I’m becoming more adept at using the Edificius software, which I’m very impressed with. Here are some more 3D shots showing where I’ve got up to so far. First, a couple of exterior shots.

Now a shot taken low-down near the floor of my bedroom – low-down because I haven’t yet found out how to totally control the viewing height 🙂

Now a couple of shots from inside my living room.

Finally, to finish off, a shot taken from my kitchen looking back towards the living room.

Unfortunately, when my hard-drive crashed, I lost all the original pictures that I took when viewing the house when it was empty back in January 2012, so I have nothing to compare them against. However, although a few details are not yet quite correct, the model (and pictures) are uncannily realistic. They are somewhat idealised compared to the real thing and also ‘feel’ a bit smaller than the rooms that they represent. But the main thing is that from the experiments that I’ve done so far, the model produces excellent looking plans, which is ultimately the point of the whole exercise after all 😉