| 7 May 2006 - Bembridge
then Brimpton Fly in |
| We decided to ignore the
three weather forecasts we found on the web as each of them forecast
different weather, and go for it. The visibility was not too good
but we decided to go to the airfield anyway. At least the wind was
calm. We were so pleased to meet up with our friend John who flies
in G-LUSI with Max and is now back flying after some rather serious
medical problems last year. He waved us off as we headed South to
the Isle of Wight. We had decided to head for Bembridge on the
Island. We called up the Bembridge Tower once we arrived over
Portsmouth, the circuit was quite busy and there were model aircraft being
flown on the airfield but not above 500 feet. Having landed we
requested fuel, paid our landing and fuel fees and set off to walk to the
harbour. |
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| We sat in the sun enjoying our lunch
looking out onto Bembridge harbour. We contacted our friends
who were attending the Brimpton flyin. |
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There seemed to be a bit of a
sea mist developing so we decided to join them. We walked back up
the hill, passed the windmill now a National Trust property and through the village back to the airfield. |
| We took off and headed North
passing Lasham and called up Brimpton, who also seemed very busy. As
we arrived two piston Proversts were performing their display so had to do
some very large circuits and land after them. Safely down we found
our old plane HW was also there so sought out Louis to say hello. |
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| John, Sue, John,
Jed and Paul were also to be found so a good chat was had by all. |
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We watched some fantastic flying of the
model planes before watching HW take off and go back to White Waltham.
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| We then said
goodbye ourselves to our friends and flew back home. |
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We were both exhausted and fell asleep
quite early that evening.
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