Another cloudy, wet day?

It was supposed to be and all of the usual weather forecast web sites that I use agreed in that. But they couldn’t have been wider of the mark! Today was a lovely sunny day with blue sky, a bit of alto-cumulus cloud and a high of over 20 degrees Celsius. And also just a light south-westerly breeze, so all-in-all, a lovely day to go flying.

And that’s just what I intended to do. I topped up ASY’s tanks, cleaned its windscreen and door window panels with Plexus and then found a great place to mount my little sports video cam at the top of the right-hand wing strut. After a walk-round and thorough inspection, I was ready to go and thought that I’d best walk the runway just to make sure that not too much of the recent rains had lingered.

To start off with, all was fine but when I got to the centre section, I found that there was a large squishy area that extended right across the whole of the runway width. At a pinch, it was flyable but I thought that the others wouldn’t thank me if I left grooves in the runway surface. So that was it, unfortunately, much as I’d love to have got into the air.

If we get a few more ‘cloudy, wet days’ like today, it’ll soon be dry enough not to have to worry about whether or not the runway’s too squishy and ASY will be ready, waiting and raring to go. But today wasn’t to be that day.