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<\/a><\/p>\nI also wanted to move 56NE to a parking place on the other side of the hangar at Galinat, to a spot that would be flatter than where it has been parked up to now, making it easier and safer to manoeuvre before and after flying, so as soon as I arrived today, I spent several minutes pulling the tie-down weights over the grass to the proposed new position. After refuelling and carrying out my pre-flight checks, I eventually got away just after 2.00 pm.<\/p>\n
The green line shows the route I’d planned and the red one shows the track that I actually flew. The air was surprisingly bumpy, more so than I’d anticipated, making it difficult to safely take shots with my new little Lumix camera, but I did manage a few. The highlight of the flight was tracking up past the north-westerly boundary of the CAS around Brive airport and seeing the wide runway off to my right and then looking ahead to see the city of Brive spread out in front of me. The shot below doesn’t do the view justice because of the mist that was still hanging around, so I’ll have to go back again next year to get some better ones.<\/p>\n
Another reason for doing that will be to get a shot of the spectacular way in which, as I approached Brive from over the Dordogne hills to its south-west, the hills suddenly fell steeply away to an almost bowl-shaped valley. Unfortunately, it was too bumpy to take any pics of it today and anyway, it was just too misty today to get anything worthwhile. I then turned left to head up to Terrasson which ordinarily would have provided some terrific photo opportunities. However, with the mist and the direction of the sun, once again I was thwarted in my efforts.<\/p>\n It was almost as bad as I over-flew Le Lardin with its large paper mill, but I did manage to get a couple of shots of the town and the factory nestling as it does in the valley surrounded by hills.<\/p>\n I then turned left again to head for Montignac and Thonac and eventually for a landing back at Galinat. On this leg I was flying directly into the sun and the visibility the whole way to Thonac was therefore very poor. However, I then spotted Galinat’s runway nestling as it does half-way up the side of its hill and despite a bit of late sink that caused me to open the throttle just before touching down, landed safely and taxied to my new parking place.<\/p>\n While I was getting myself organised and putting 56NE’s covers on, Christian, Galinat’s owner, arrived. After the usual greetings, I told him about my idea of moving my X-Air to its new place. He said that he had no objection and suggested that if I’d like to hang on for a few minutes, he’d bring a little ride-on mower over to clear the area behind the aircraft so it could be pushed further back where it would be safer. I was delighted with this and here’s a shot of the aircraft in its new position.<\/p>\n Christian said that his original idea was to use the spot for an aircraft of his own but as he no longer flies, he’s happy to see mine parked there, so I’m really pleased with how things have turned out. Here are a few more shots showing what a great improvement the new spot is compared to 56NE’s original sharply sloping parking place.<\/p>\n As can be seen in the pics, there’s scope to park 56NE better to make better use of the space available, especially if I take my ‘debroussailleuse’ over and clear a bit more of the brush away that’s under the left wing. Although the spot is below the road and the entrance into the airfield, I think that it will probably drain quite well, and if so, in the longer term, because it’s a nice flat area, the new parking place would probably be a good place to site a T-hangar. However, that’s something to think about in a few months time \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After checking this morning’s weather forecast, I watched as the mist slowly cleared on the hills opposite where Galinat is located with absolutely no sign of the strongly gusting winds that one web site had predicted might arise. It was turning into another lovely day, not quite up to yesterday’s beautiful weather, but still far … 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-5696","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\/5696","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=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n