Just a thought..

After not having flown for three weeks, I managed an hour yesterday. I flew south around Maidstone, down to Linton and back. I was surprised to see an aircraft there outside the main hangar – some regular readers might recall that my main feeling about Linton was that it’s a lovely strip but while I was there, hardly anyone except me ever flew! But unsurprisingly, although there was an aircraft parked, I couldn’t see any flying going on 😐

Yesterday was the perfect day that I would have chosen for my flight down to Plazac, bright, good vis and a good northerly tail wind, and it got me thinking. My plans at present are to move my belongings and furniture down shortly after 19th April and then fly MYRO down ASAP after my return. Then to return by Ryanair from Bergerac and finallly drive down in my car with the dog. However, the main unknown is the weather and getting a suitable week-end when everything is ‘just right’ for the flight down could be a bit tricky. So I got to thinking, why not fly MYRO down as soon as a good weather window presents itself? It may mean that it will be parked up for a couple of weeks while I’m still in England but that won’t be a problem, especially if Bob can get some weighted tie-down tyres made for me and I also take MYRO’s covers down with me.

I checked the weather forecasts yesterday and although the warm, balmy unseasonable weather that we’ve currently been enjoying will be replaced by an ‘Arctic blast’ this week, it appears that next week-end could be suitable as northerly winds with not too many strong gusts are expected once the more extreme stuff has passed through. And also, as it’s Easter week-end, there will be four days in France due to the holiday when the low level restricted military corridors won’t apply compared to the usual two for a normal week-end.

So it seems a bit of a no-brainer to me and my thoughts now are to prepare MYRO for the flight by this coming Thursday (new plugs, tanks topped up and jerry cans filled ready to go) and leave either on Friday or Saturday at around 7.30 am. I’ve got the route and fuel stops all planned out so all it would need is a couple of calls to France to pre-arrange for assistance in buying fuel en route and for my cross Channel flight plan to be filed the day before. The more I think about it, the more I come around to the idea that it’s the sensible thing to do 😉