Destination La Rochelle

As I mentioned in some previous posts, after installing the new 8.33 kHz radio and transponder in 77ASY, my Savannah, I had to get the new equipment officially signed off. As the nearest station to me is at La Rochelle in the Charente Maritime, I had to make the flight up there as I described a couple of posts ago.

Having waited quite a while for a suitable opportunity on account of the weather, I headed off on 19th June. The forecast was for 18th June to be marginal because of winds but for 19th June to be perfect. It couldn’t have been more wrong. The 18th, which I’d rejected, was the perfect day whereas on the 19th half of the flight was over solid low-level cloud. I also arrived and left La Rochelle in rain.

As I mentioned in the post of the flight, I made a video recording and as I also mentioned, although I’d wanted to record the whole flight, I only got an hour or so because the backup battery pack didn’t work. The video starts just before Périgueux with the cloud bank in view on the horizon and ends still over cloud to the north-west of the military airfield at Cognac.