Battlefields

Handsome Sling ZDL red rocket lines up at the Battlefields Fly-in

Brad and I flying flight level FL085 on the way home

The Yaks are popular machines

See the shadow of Red Rocket as we fly over the Treverton airfield

Did the Battlefields Fly-In with my previous instructor Brad today. Good flying although it was very hazy like an inversion and our mates Marc and Lee in ETD joined us after initially diverting to Dundee until the clouds lifted. The day actually turned out pretty hot and we enjoyed breakfast at the lodge and a quick flight around the battlefields before returning home. The battlefields were the scenes of the Anglo/Zulu wars, prior to the English declaring the Natal area a colony of Britain. We stayed a British colony until the Union of South Africa in 1910 when the British Colony, the Orange Free State, the Cape Colony and the Transvaal Republic came together as one.

On the way back we experienced a partial radio failure - it seems our broadcasts were being heard, but we could not hear the responses, so we have to talk our way back by telephone to Virginia whilst they monitored us on the radar.

We were flying a bit faster and the fuel seemed to be disappearing muck quicker... so we ended on only 10 litres with a 33kts headwind some of the way back.