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<\/p>\nWim and I planned just a short flight today, taking in a couple of local aerodromes. Take off was planned for around 9.00 am so we could get back before it started to become very hot and bumpy, as a cloudless sky and a high of around 30\u00b0 Celsius had been forecast for later in the day. We thought we’d drop into Sarlat-Domme and pick up a cup of coffee and then fly onto Condat, the airfield with a large tarmac runway that’s a bit like landing on an aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n
Here’s a shot of my intended route.<\/p>\n
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Wim didn’t land at Malbec this morning, and instead I waited for him to overfly the airfield before taking off and following him south to Sarlat, inevitably overtaking him en route. Here are a few shots that I took at Sarlat-Domme including some more unusual ones of the fronts of the airfield buildings that we don’t usually see.<\/p>\n
I bumped into the owner of the Beechcraft Kingair that’s based there who tried to help me a few weeks ago when my GPS fell off onto the Savannah’s cabin floor just as I was taking off and we said our ‘Hellos’ and shook each other’s hand. I think he also owns the Air Chateau business at Sarlat that does parachuting and various other activities as the picture above shows.<\/p>\n After taking off and turning on track for Condat, I took the next two pics as I flew past the town of Sarlat bathed in the scorching mid-summer sunlight.<\/p>\n Roland, the owner of Condat, was there when I landed and we were in conversation when Wim touched down almost 10 minutes later. When he found that we were in no hurry to leave, he called a retired English friend of his to drop in and meet us, who turned out to be Bernard, a retired RN sub-mariner.<\/p>\n Wim had to depart because of other business but I stayed on for another 45 minutes or so and had to turn down the offer of a cold beer from Roland’s in-hangar fridge. But eventually I too had to leave before it became too turbulent. Even so, it was pretty bumpy on the way back to Malbec and the approach equally so, but I landed OK and clocked up a total flying time of 75 minutes.<\/p>\n Just as I was finishing wrapping up 77ASY for the day, Victor turned up and we retired to his place for a quick bite. And I also got that cold beer that I’d been looking forward to since Condat \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wim and I planned just a short flight today, taking in a couple of local aerodromes. Take off was planned for around 9.00 am so we could get back before it started to become very hot and bumpy, as a cloudless sky and a high of around 30\u00b0 Celsius had been forecast for later in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11383"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11394,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383\/revisions\/11394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"null\"](\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/16jul16_01.jpg\")
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