Chill-out day today

I hadn’t realised how stressful the last few days had been until I got back home again from Galinat yesterday evening. After I’d typed the previous post, a wave of tiredness just seemed to sweep over me, and before anyone asks, no, it wasn’t anything to do with the red wine I’d been drinking! I sat in an armchair and had a little nap and when I awoke after half an hour or so, I felt much better 🙂

So I thought that I’d give flying a miss today and re-charge my batteries. I dropped in on Regis in the late morning to pick up my small step ladders that we’d left in his car, and Rouffignac where he lives was teeming with people as there’s always a market there on Sunday mornings. He showed me the field up the road from his house where he hopes to shortly test fly the Zenair which he’s been rebuilding over the last year or so. It looked a good place to me, so hopefully we’ll all be over there soon helping him to get airborne.

On the way back I bumped into my neighbour Christian who has a house next to the cow field from which I took off yesterday and who kindly made the initial arrangements on my behalf with the landowner. I told him how I’d felt when I got home yesterday and he said that maybe I was a bit stressed by the number of people who turned up! I said that I didn’t think that that was the reason, but more than likely it was the result of the tension built up by all of the things that I’d had to organise and get into place over the weeks leading up to the X-Air’s first flight.

But whatever the reason, I’ve enjoyed a very restful day today. We’ve had a comfortable 29 degrees Celsius, still with only very light winds from the north, and tomorrow is forecast to be similar with a temperature of 30/31 degrees. The whole week is in fact forecast to follow a similar pattern with temperatures at about the same level, so it should be a good flying week, especially in the mornings or early evenings. There was a bit of low-lying mist in the valleys this morning so my guess is that the evenings will be the best, although I’m in no hurry and will just play things by ear. I’ll need to take my motorised ‘debroussailleuse’ (brush cutter) over to Galinat anyway to clear the area where the X-Air is tied down, so I’ll take my time and just fit in all of the things that I want and need to do. But from where I’m sitting, it looks as though this coming week can’t fail to be a good one 😀