{"id":1512,"date":"2010-05-15T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2010-05-15T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T19:43:15","slug":"great-couple-of-days-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/great-couple-of-days-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Couple of Days – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d hoped to get this post done yesterday but I didn’t have time so this is the first of two today.<\/p>\n

As the weather was being very cooperative, I decided to allow myself a bit of time off yesterday as I’ve been working very long hours on a new web site. So as the last time I flew was three weeks ago but for one day, Rosie and I did a little dual to check that my landings were still OK. In fact, I was surprised how long it took for me to feel ‘comfortable’ again and there were several ‘slack’ areas that I knew myself I’d need to pay attention to. Anyway, Rosie suggested going off for a bit more solo and this time proposed that I covered a quite complicated zig-zag route down to the south, then up to the north and back again.<\/p>\n

So off I went. I climbed more or less straight out on a southerly heading and here’s a general pic I took after a few minutes looking south towards Hythe with the English Channel beyond.<\/p>\n

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The next pic is just a general shot looking south with the French coast clearly visible in the distance.<\/p>\n

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This next one shows the port of Folkestone. I was surprised how much less active Folkestone is compared to Dover. I suppose it’s because Folkestone harbour and the ferries that used to be quite active there have now given way to the Channel Tunnel which is now also served through Folkestone.<\/p>\n

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The next pic shows what I mean, with Dover harbour in the middle distance and several ferries visible. Just to the right you can also just catch a glimpse of the White Cliffs.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another shot of Folkestone town. Unfortunately, I just missed including the whole of the harbour because of the problems of taking pictures at the same time as flying the aircraft!<\/p>\n

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Next is another general shot taken looking from Folkestone towards Dover. Isn’t this a lovely part of the country to fly in!<\/p>\n

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I didn’t get very close to Dover because I had to make a left turn and head back north but here’s a shot of Dover harbour itself. You can just see the castle on the cliff-top on the left.<\/p>\n

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My next destination was Canterbury which I wanted to reach by roughly following the line of the main A2 road. The rules of the air mean that you keep such a line feature on your left and here you can see how the road sweeps down through the Kentish countryside.<\/p>\n

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I then took a shot out of the other side of the cabin showing how the North Kent coast was clearly visible. There are several wind farms in the Thames Estuary in the area shown but they are not visible in this shot.<\/p>\n

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Finally, here’s the last shot I took just before I turned around and headed away to Deal over on the coast. It’s of the City of Canterbury. The famous cathedral is just visible in the city centre but I’ll have to leave some better shots for another time. In the distance you can see the Medway Estuary and the Isle of Sheppey.<\/p>\n

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After leaving Canterbury I flew over to the coast just to the north of Deal. I followed the coastline southwards over the sea and flew over Deal pier before turning right to head back to the field. Yet again I’d taken off without any gloves and by this time my hands were too cold to take any more shots. By the time I landed at around 5.00pm I was feeling pretty chilly I have to say. The flight lasted for one hour fifteen minutes and what an enjoyable time it had been \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d hoped to get this post done yesterday but I didn’t have time so this is the first of two today. As the weather was being very cooperative, I decided to allow myself a bit of time off yesterday as I’ve been working very long hours on a new web site. So as the last … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","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\/1512","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=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}