Author: Ian Fereday
South Lincs tour
The weather is still not great, certainly not good enough for a trip anywhere. Today, though, the cloud base was high enough that we could do a local tour. Departing Strubby runway 26 we headed south then east for the coast, before crossing overhead Skegness. Searched in vain for Croft airfield – it must be…
A trip to Seething
With bad weather forecast for several days we grabbed the opportunity to fly down to Norfolk. Heading southeast from Strubby we crossed The Wash, coasting in at Hunstanton before passing Sandringham. Skirting around Norwich airspace we landed at a closed Seething. No other visitors because the airfield is unmanned today. A quick memento before starting…
Return from Humberside
Ian took G-LTFB home to Strubby today. The weather forecast for the next week or more is not great, so the Night Rating training is postponed.
Night rating Pt. 1
Kev took his first supervised night flight today in G-BEAC at Humberside Airport. Quite an experience. Our thanks to Roy Murray of Frank Morgan School of Flying for giving up his evenings. On the southern apron refuelling. Over the Humber with Hull to starboard. North of Hull heading for Beverley and Driffield. In the cockpit…
Return to Humberside
Ian took G-LTFB back to Humberside today, the place where our flying began about a year ago. We’ll be based here for a few/several days to complete our night ratings with Roy Murray of Frank Morgan School of Flying (weather permitting). ATC offered a join for runway 20, but the low sun encountered after the…
Tatenhill & Wickenby
Departed Strubby at 10:00AM headed for Tatenhill with Kev at the controls and his son Jonothan along for the ride. After a quick coffee Ian took the return east then north for Wickenby, looking forward to a turkey curry. The Wickenby fly-in had attracted about 80 planes, so there was no curry and very little…
Trip to an old favourite
The weather hasn’t been good to us recently, so we took the first opportunity to get a day’s flying in and decided on a trip to Peterborough Conington. It’s not too far (especially when the weather is marginal) and it’s a place we know well from our QXC’s. Kevin took the outbound trip. With all the…
Morning flight to Tollerton
Planning where to go … With poor weather forecast for the afternoon, we set off early for Tollerton (Nottingham City Airport, EGBN). Taking a direct route we crossed the Cranwell/Waddington MATZes for a landing on runway 21. Busy airport with a busy cafe, but a bit pricey. We returned to the south of the MATZes,…
Windy & foggy
What do you do when the wind and fog prevent you flying? Clean the plane of course!
Tours in the past
Browsing through the old Flight Logs, some interesting flights by previous owners were discovered. Here’s one from September 2012. Red line = outbound route Blue line – inbound route Date From To Time 30.8.12 Alderney EGJA Lydd, EGMD 1.5 hrs 1.9.12 Lydd, EGMD Headcorn, EGKH 0.2 hrs 2.9.12 Headcorn, EGKH Flanders, EBKT 1.1 hrs 2.9.12…
