Change of plan

The forecast for the rest of the week shows that the change in the weather that we were originally expecting at the weekend could come much sooner – in fact as soon as tomorrow, depending on which web site you believe. So I didn’t get to do the shuttering on the new tool store and instead I went shopping at Intermarché first thing and flying later on in the afternoon. The sky was already beginning to adopt a milky tinge and there was a much cooler edge to the day, so the signs that the change is on the way are definitely there.

I already had a flight planned and waiting so it didn’t take long to get myself sorted out. The one disappointment was that my little sports cam let me down yet again. It seems that the problems are with the batteries – as soon as I charge the sports cam with them in using my Asus tablet charger, which should be suitable as it just delivers the same current as a USB port, they are destroyed. So that’s now the original one plus one (or is it two?) of the three additional units that I bought a couple of weeks or so ago.

My route took me north-east up to Terrasson taking in the ULM field there, and then continued on up to Objat. Then I turned left on a long leg (nearly 20 minutes) that was straight into the sun, up to Excideuil, that I last flew over about a year ago. This was the worst part of the whole flight. Then I turned left again to fly almost due south down to my house from which I could see Galinat and it was just a matter of turning left and heading towards Thonac for a few minutes and then right for final.

Here are a couple of shots showing Terrasson from a distance as I was approaching it and then the ULM field there with a couple of flex-wings standing outside the hangar.

Then Objat, which could never be described as picturesque. The first shot is of the centre of the town and the second of a lake just outside it to the north with a little water park on it for the small children.

Next, a couple of shots of Excideuil with its little castle. By now the sun was getting pretty low and the vis closing in quite a bit out in the distance.

Then Thenon, which I’ve taken shots of many times, but I took another as I passed by anyway.

The flight lasted about an hour and ten minutes and I landed at around 7.55pm. Sunset this evening was at 8.20pm so I needed to get my skates on to get 56NE parked up and covered before the light began to fail. I succeeded and here’s a final shot that I took as the sun dipped towards the tops of the hills to the west.

I don’t know whether it’s just me, but the weather has a distinct ‘autumnal’ feel to it which I don’t recall from this time last year. To me it feels as though the summer is coming to an abrupt halt when previously it has hung on for several weeks through September and going into October even. Whether that will happen this year, we’ll have to wait and see. But now I really must press on with my new tool store otherwise I’ll not have anywhere to keep my new ride-on when the weather does eventually change.