Weather permitting, I’m flying a four-seater aircraft to Le Touquet, lunch Frogside, back in time for crumpets and anecdotes etc.
I’ve done a fair bit of flying small aircraft and gliders, but I’ve not flown over the sea before and will have an instructor for this, in case of ... well... Theoretically the sea is a more predictable base than the rolling South Downs countryside but it is wetter.
There have been some who have, quite recently, found this challenge a little tricky. I hope for better luck than them and will revert to this board to confirm all details and my continued existence, should that be a fact, tomorrow night.
My son will be in the back. Gulp. The rest of the family have refused to partake.
Mange tout, Rodney.
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Best of luck, nice humblebrag!
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That’s not a humblebrag. It is a full on brag.
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But I am a bit shitting my pants about it incase we get any issues. He’s got exams to do. Still, he is a good swimmer.
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I’m sure you’ll be fine, but I hope they burn your lunch ?
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No doubt.
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Bringing yourself to the nuisance? Safe journey chap. Ffs
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Be safe Mutters. I'm the only one round here who is allowed to be "not waving but drowning".
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Excellent work, good luck.
I trust your plane will have the livery colours of the endangered humble bee, 2 birds 1 stone as it were.
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heh at the rest of the family
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Mate used to do this
Ditched. Cockpit full of water
Saved only because air sea rescue happened to be carrying out exercise in the area that day
Dumped aircraft
Turned to religion
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Just fly round the Isle of White a few times and have lunch in Gosport
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I had dinner last night at a restaurant in Etaples that overlooks the Le Touquet airport!
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There is a lot of haze and a weak horizon
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Night Instrument Rating needed!!
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You're gonna need more than luck...
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It’ll be the bars and Restos of Le Touquet that come to avert no deal soon!
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All well but visibility very crap over UK coast so a bit tricky. Instrument only flying. now lunch then return flight. 7k vis Frogside but 3-4K in Kent coast area up to 4000ft
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Oh god.
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Oh God what?
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Nothing, just have the Boeing manual handy in case the nose starts to dip.
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Love it!
Thoroughly jealous!
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Taxi out now and apparently it’s down to 2k vis the other end. Ha.
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Describe lunch. Not if you're still flying obv.
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Landed. V hazy on the way in down from 4.5k feet to the ground.
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Thank God
Thought we were heading for another John John type disaster
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Yeah glad you arent dead. you know you can buy moules and frites in loch fyne tho right?
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Cote de boeuf
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Well done. Not easy for a weekend pilot, even if you did have an instructor with you just in case.
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Complete show off.
Should have stayed in France.
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It was fine. 1500ft to the ground it was clear. There was just this regular set of warm and cold air masses causing intermittent light mist. You couldn’t call it fog or even mist really. More a spring haze with sea mists caused by the change in temp as the sun worked on the cold air. Over the airfield it was ok. We would not have flown if it had been dangerous. Anyway, you have to learn to fly by instrument-lead as opposed to visual as you never know when you’re going to be in serious do do and need it.
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Piper Archer if anyone interested. I packed a dinghy on the spare seat...
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https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder.htm/
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I defer to your expertise on mental health issues.
Actually I was sharing details of something a bit unusual for the RoF community and it was briefly interesting to some, but not you. So you default to troll behaviour. Plus ca change plus c’est le meme chose.
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Mutters I think you need to be quarantined, you seem to have caught a dose of French during your brief sojourn. Are you craving a galouise and planning a port blockade? Are you listening to the band Telephone and planning a visit to Monsieur Le Clerc's bakery for a pain au chocolate?
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Oh la la
i did have a pain au chocolate today
you’re onto something.
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This is why they ban pregnant women from eating soft cheese and pate - the rule was brought in during the Napoleonic wars because of a fear the good women of blighty might give birth to French babies
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