G-MZEL Takes Off

Rosie’s AX3 G-MZEL starts up, taxies and takes off with Glenn in the left-hand seat. Glenn was training at the time and usually flew an Ikarus C42, so flying an AX3 was a new and very different experience for him. I had to smile when, after they’d landed again, I remarked to Rosie that MZEL had taken a while to get off the ground. ‘Yes’, she replied, ‘After I’d taken off, I bloomin’ well nearly landed again!’

I started my training for my PPL ‘M’ rating in G-MYRO but finished it off in G-MZEL, which I flew many times. MZEL was sold off some years later, I think after I’d left the UK to live in France, to a gentleman in Ireland who I subsequently heard sadly suffered a serious accident in it that wrote the aircraft off and badly injured himself and his passenger.