{"id":23107,"date":"2024-08-28T09:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23107"},"modified":"2024-08-28T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:41:16","slug":"whats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/whats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What have I been up to? Yes, I’ve been absent and quiet for a while but there have been reasons for that. First off, I managed to make a flight up to the UK and back in my Savannah nearly a couple of weeks ago which I’ve not yet managed to write about, but I will as soon as I can because it was notable for both good and bad reasons, which I’ll talk about in due course. Secondly, I picked up a nasty bug, probably while I was in the UK, that has been a bugger to shake off. I’m still not quite right but I’m getting there and it’s time to get back into stride with my life, albeit a bit more slowly than usual to start off with.<\/p>\n

First off, I’ll talk about photos of my latest UK flight. Unbelievably, due to my own carelessness and stupidity I managed to delete almost all of the videos and all of the still photos that I shot flying up to the UK. I’ve been trying ever since to recover them but I’m now resigned to the fact that they’re gone forever. I’m managing to make a video from salvaged material of the first leg of the flight that I’ll be putting up on Youtube so it’s not a total disaster but although it wasn’t easy taking stills from inside the aircraft or even outside because of the wind and bad weather, I did get some good pics (some of Le Mans and the famous racing circuit there) that I doubt I’ll get the chance to take again. But such is life.<\/p>\n

Luckily I did get a perfect video of the first leg of my return flight from Kent in South-East England to Le Touquet in France. It captured all of the radio calls and ATC procedures between myself and other traffic and might be of interest to anyone interested in what’s involved or might even be considering the Channel crossing for the first time.<\/p>\n

The flight up to the UK turned into an extraordinary experience. I’ll post the write-up when it’s done but I’ll just say for now that I was detained by the French police in Le Touquet and questioned in regard to a potential terrorist offence!! And no, I wasn’t wearing either a beard or a turban at the time. It was a terribly disruptive affair but was difficult to take seriously, and pretty soon the police didn’t either but they have ‘procedures’ to follow \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n

But for starters I’ve attached a couple of pics that I’ve lifted from the saved videos. The first is of your erstwhile pilot starting the under-wing video prior to take off at Chateau Malbec and the second is of starting the cabin video in the UK prior to taking off for the return flight to France.<\/p>\n

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The person shown is a gormless looking individual who looks just the type to delete valuable videos and photos, I’m sure you’ll agree \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

And to finish off, a shot of Cap Gris Nez taken when coasting back into France on 21st August.<\/p>\n

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And having finished writing this, it’s 9.30 am and time if ever there was one, for a cup of tea and a Bramley apple pie that I brought back with me from the UK \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What have I been up to? Yes, I’ve been absent and quiet for a while but there have been reasons for that. First off, I managed to make a flight up to the UK and back in my Savannah nearly a couple of weeks ago which I’ve not yet managed to write about, but I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23107"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23114,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions\/23114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}