{"id":9236,"date":"2015-08-28T23:28:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T22:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9236"},"modified":"2015-08-29T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T10:50:22","slug":"brilliant-evening-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/brilliant-evening-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant evening flight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning all week to fly today because the weather forecast always said that the modest winds that we&#8217;ve been experiencing for the last few days would drop today, on top of which we would also have a perfect warm and sunny summer evening. It didn&#8217;t look that way, though, this morning because the cloud was low (almost a Scotch mist where I live) and the vis was poor. In the event, it turned out exactly as per the forecast and I was able do the flight that I&#8217;d already planned and loaded into my little Asus tablet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/28aug15.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/28aug15_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In preparation, as Christian had not been able to arrange for a tractor with a large mower to cut the grass at Galinat, yesterday I took my new ride-on over there to do the job myself. It did pretty well but as Christian pointed out when I bumped into him today at Intermarch\u00e9, when the grass is long, you can&#8217;t go too fast with a smaller machine. I told him that I&#8217;d already found that out by burning out the belt on my machine after only mowing half the width that I&#8217;d wanted to, but it was wide enough for me and 56NE, so off I went as planned at just after 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The route was similar to a flight I did before leaving for England on 2 August, except this time I went round clockwise, the opposite direction to previously. Funnily enough, just as before, I came across a bunch of &#8216;montgolfiers&#8217; (hot air balloons) presumably carrying tourists in the southern-most section and gave them a wide berth like I did last time that fortunately did not mean going too far off my planned route. I didn&#8217;t take my camera and although I set up my little sports cam and started it up, it decided to turn itself off after 4 minutes, just as I was taking off. For some reason, although I used it lots of times during our west coast trip, I haven&#8217;t been successful in getting it to work properly since.<\/p>\n<p>So what I&#8217;ve done is show below the pics that I took on 2 August, but in the reverse order to which I took them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_7_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_6_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_5_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_4_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_3_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_2_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/02aug15_1_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See, if I hadn&#8217;t mentioned it, you&#8217;d never have known as the only difference was that today there were a few more clouds to start off with than on 2 August. I&#8217;ll not bother trying to remember exactly where each shot was taken &#8211; I&#8217;ll just let the pictures speak for themselves \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning all week to fly today because the weather forecast always said that the modest winds that we&#8217;ve been experiencing for the last few days would drop today, on top of which we would also have a perfect warm and sunny summer evening. 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