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The observed high today was 31 degrees Celsius – in fact it’s still around that as I am typing this at a little after 8.15 pm. But although it’s been a glorious day, I’ve not managed to see much of it again, because of the time I’ve spent indoors. Where I knocked out the two end supports for my old sink yesterday, two holes were left in the floor tiles. Both of them fall under the base units, except that the left hand one corresponds with the gap I’m leaving for the washing machine, so will be visible whenever the washing machine is pulled out. Nevertheless, I decided that it wouldn’t be worth going to the length of breaking out and relaying tiles and instead I’ve gone for patching them with coloured mortar. So my first job was to pop down to Les Briconautes to see if they had what I wanted, which they did.<\/p>\n

On arriving back home I checked my postbox and had the welcome surprise of a letter from Merignac. The last time I had a letter like it was at the beginning of the week when the DGAC had returned my French ULM licence paperwork asking me for information that they didn’t actually require (because I already have a UK licence) and to complete another form. However, when I opened this one I was pleased to see that it actually contained my French licence, so I’m at last able to legally fly my X-Air. Not that there’s much chance of that in the next week or so however, as my family arrive for a two-week stay on Monday week and I have to finish off the initial work in my kitchen and get the house and garden ready for their arrival. Here’s my French licence for any UK microlighters who might like to know what it looks like.<\/p>\n

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I notice that on the back page (the second pic above) there’s a section for ‘taking passengers’ that hasn’t been stamped. I’ll have to find out about that as with my hours, there’s no reason why I shouldn’t. Francis, the instructor at Castillonnes, will know the answer. I think possibly he will need to sign it, but I’ll have to wait and see what he says.<\/p>\n

Regis is on the last couple of laps with the Zenair that he has been repairing for the last year or so and is now at the paint spraying stage. I brought the compressor and spray gun that I bought to spray MYRO’s pod last time, with me to France, so I loaned him both. However, it was too hot for him to do any spraying yesterday, so I doubt that he’ll have got any done today either. The aircraft is the all-aluminium, high wing, STOL Zenair 701 and I must say, from what I’ve seen of it recently, it is now looking terrific. Regis managed to acquire a low hours Rotax 912 engine for it, the 100HP I think, so its performance should be outstanding and I can’t wait to see it completely finished and ready to fly. Well done Regis on completing what I know was a long and very demanding project \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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