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| Sandown - Isle of
Wight - 6 May 2008 |
| Once again all the conditions
were favourable for a reasonably short trip, so we decided this was the
day for our first trip of the year to the Isle of Wight. We set off
in a fairly light Easterly wind and flew across the Hampshire countryside
routing just West of Alton, passing Petersfield and Butser Hill before
passing just East of Portsmouth and across the Solent to Ryde. |
| Wind on the Island was
stronger and essentially at right angles to the runway and from the South
making the landing difficult. We bought fuel and then set off to
have lunch at the Garden Centre just up the hill from the airfield.
This took us past fire damaged ruins of the Aviator restaurant which
looked pretty sad. |
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| The return trip was
essentially over the same ground passing Lasham with several yellow rape
fields in the area. Definitely to be avoided in a forced landing! |
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