Sunday’s fog

I’d almost forgotten that after I’d returned to Malbec after turning back mid-way during my flight to Ste-Foy-la-Grande on Sunday I took a couple of shots of the fog bank to the south that was the cause of the problem.

The first one gives a general impression of the situation but although it shows the inversion pretty well, it doesn’t actually show the fog bank itself in very much detail.

The second one though, which I took after zooming in a bit using my little Nikon’s telephoto lens, does a much better job.

If you look closely, you can see the rays of the sun glinting on the tops of the clouds of fog forming the bank. As I flew in a westerly direction it took the form of a solid layer of ground-hugging cloud that was at least a couple of hundred feet thick and totally hid the surface and as it extended far enough west to cover the airfield at Ste-Foy it would have made landing impossible. It must also have blanketed Bergerac but Ryanair is less inconvenienced by that than I am in the X-Air.

So there you have it. It lingered all day so Gérard, my prospective buyer, didn’t get to see the X-Air yet again. And not only that, although we’ve enjoyed excellent flying weather every day since, the forecast is for the wind strength to increase again this coming week end which may prevent me getting there yet again. We’ll just have to wait and see.