Looking on the bright side…

… was very difficult today because although the weather forecast was for the thick, grey cloud to clear in the second half of the day, it just didn’t happen. As a consequence it remained very dull and miserable, but at least it stayed dry.

As tomorrow is again forecast to be a bit wet and windy, my plan for today was to do a flight down towards Lydd, then to hit the coast just to the north of the Lydd zone, fly north up the coast towards Hythe and Danger Area 141 and then to head back to Linton via Ashford. Although it was only early afternoon by the time I was ready to take off, it was still so dull and murky, especially towards the south where I’d planned to head off to, that I thought it wise to curtail things a bit. So I headed off on my planned track then with Lydd in view in the distance, I turned to head east and then with Hythe on my nose turned left again to rejoin my planned track at Ashford.

I ended up with a flight of 1 hour 5 minutes so I was pleased with that, and by the time I’d replaced the covers and tied MYRO down, it was so dark that it felt like dusk. I even had to set the padlocks in my car headlights, and it wasn’t even 5.00pm 😯

I am pleased to say that MYRO’s covers saw off the terrible weather we had this week. I was surprised and rather dismayed to find that some water had still managed to find its way into the elevator – but only on one side! How it did that I do not know – maybe a quirk of the way the wind was driving the rain. I took great trouble this evening to make sure the covers were all nicely fitted and I’ll have to see how they fare next week-end as we already have more rain and storms forecast for this coming week.

But at least we only have a relatively few more weeks now, and the evenings will start to draw out again. That’s looking on the bright side, anyway 😉