{"id":2003,"date":"2010-11-08T14:42:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T14:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2010-11-08T21:58:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:58:04","slug":"one-for-tiny-h-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/one-for-tiny-h-s\/","title":{"rendered":"One for Tony H-S"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we approach the fag-end of the flying year, the number of good flying days must be expected to diminish as the ground gets wetter, the days get shorter and the weather becomes less predictable. But that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any more good days, and Saturday was one of them. All the while I’ve still got only the one fuel tank and my flying time is therefore limited to something like 1 1\/2 hours, I like to head off in the direction that the wind is blowing in from so I have it on my tail during the return leg. So with the wind coming from the north-west, I decided to head off over the River Thames into Essex and maybe this time get up closer to the Dartford Bridge.<\/p>\n

I had to be a bit flexible because I haven’t flown in the area to the north of the Dartford Crossing for many years and I know that there has been a lot of building and development going on there in recent times. Although it is now legal to fly over built-up areas in a microlight, you have to always have the ability to land clear in the event of an engine failure, so this means that there must be an open area nearby and reachable in a glide at all times. This clearly excludes cities and large towns and would also exclude areas of any kind which are heavily developed with shopping centres, industrial estates and the like. <\/p>\n

And this is exactly what it’s like just north of the Dartford Crossing. But although I decided that it would be unwise to approach the north side of the Bridge from the east along the edge of the River Thames, I found that there were actually plenty of fields further north, either side of the A13 main road and the M25, so that’s the route I took. I did decide as you can see in the video that I took, to swing westwards away from the Bridge to skirt round the power station next to it on the south side of the Thames and I did that because of the number of oil containing tanks that were below me. Just imagine the head lines …. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

And this time, smarting as I was after Tony H-S’s cruel comments about my apparent reluctance to record my landings, I made sure that I switched off the video during the flight and switched it back on again with enough tape left to record the landing back at Linton. Fortunately I’m glad to say it went pretty well too \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

If you want to see the video, just click on the pic below.<\/p>\n

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As well as having had a good flight, I also managed to do quite a bit more with MYRO’s covers which now fit pretty well and should do the job. Just as well because today we’ve had high winds and lashing rain which are forecast to continue into tomorrow. Even though I thought I’d ordered enough extra hooks for the bungee cords that secure the covers, I ran out yet again, so I’ll have to order even more. I’ll also order some more cord because although most of MYRO is covered, which makes me feel better with the current weather, the tail fin, pod and screen are all still uncovered and I’d now like to finish off by making covers for those too. Then I really will be happy while MYRO is standing out over the Winter, completely under wraps \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we approach the fag-end of the flying year, the number of good flying days must be expected to diminish as the ground gets wetter, the days get shorter and the weather becomes less predictable. But that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any more good days, and Saturday was one of them. All the … 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-2003","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\/2003","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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}