The weather has been excellent for most things today – sunny with almost clear blue skies. But not for flying unfortunately, because of the amount of haze that has been hanging around all day. When I checked the aviation weather reports for the ‘local’ airfields (Southend, Manston, Lydd) this morning, all of them were showing visibilities of less than 5000 metres in haze with no significant change expected. I actually headed off for Linton but when I saw the view (or lack of it) from Wrotham Hill, I turned round and came back home again, so I almost started typing this when I got back saying that the day had turned out to be a total washout. But luckily I didn’t \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Later in the afternoon, although there was still a fair bit of haze around, it was obvious that the weather was different from yesterday – slightly fresher with a bit more wind. So I decided to give it another go. When I arrived at Linton it was clear that the vis was not fantastic, but was safely flyable, so I got MYRO ready and went off. For some reason my little GPS would not power up properly so I decided to stick to local flying, and having done a counter-clockwise circuit of Maidstone yesterday, I decided to do a clockwise one today. In fact in an hour I managed to get in some flying over the local stretches of the Medway and the locks at Teston and Yalding and also a slow orbit of Leeds Castle, so it was actually a very enjoyable flight. <\/p>\n
So all very good – and 3 out of 3 so far, for the four flying days of Easter. Ken wants to go flying in the X’air tomorrow so with a bit of luck it’ll be possible to make it 4 out of 4. That’ll really be a result \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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