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Adventures of a Low Hours PPL holder & Two Instructors

  • Rainy Days
  • The best laid plans…
  • Launch Day -1
  • Launch Day Arrives
  • Day 1, Flight 1 – Earls Colne to Shoreham (Captain: Trevor)
  • Day 1, Flight 2 – Shoreham to Dunkeswell (Captain: Simon)
  • Day 2, Flight 1 – Dunkeswell to Lands End (Captain: Paul)
  • Day 2, Flight 2 – Lands End To Haverfordwest (Captain: Trevor)
  • Day 2, Flight 3 – Haverfordwest to Caernarfon (Captain: Simon)
  • Day 3, Flight 1 – Caernarfon to Blackpool (Captain: Paul)
  • Day 3, Flight 2 – Blackpool to Campbeltown (Captain: Simon)
  • Day 3, Flight 3 – Campbeltown to Oban (Captain: Trevor)
  • Day 4 – Grounded (Captains: None!)
  • Day 5, Flight 1 – Oban to Inverness (Captain: Simon)
  • Day 6, Flight 1 Inverness to Dundee (Captain: Paul)
  • Day 7, Flight 1 – Dundee to Durham Tees Valley (Captain: Trevor)
  • Day 7, Flight 2 – Tees Valley to Wickenby (Captain: Paul)
  • Day 8, Flight 1 – Wickenby to Beccles (Captain: Simon)
  • Day 8, Flight 2 – Beccles to Earls Colne (Captain: Paul)
  • It’s all over….

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Adventures of a low hours private pilot (PPL holder) & two FI(A) flying instructors
as they circumnavigate the UK Coastline

Rainy Days

Rainy Days. It was a typical grey rainy day in February. We had all turned up at the flying club hoping for better weather and the chance to fly. Instead we were drinking coffee, and shooting the breeze! That was when Paul, my flying instructor, announced that he had always wanted to circumnavigate the UK…

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The best laid plans…

The best laid plans… Mick Manders, the owner of Anglian Flight Centres, kindly agreed to us using G-ECAK for the tour. G-ECAK is a very well maintained, low hours C172. Next on our agenda was the purchase of a full set of UK half-mill charts and a long evening picking out appropriate way-points. We needed…

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Launch Day -1

Launch Day -1. One issue that came out of the blue that none of us had ever considered was the weather on our day of departure. We never dreamt it could be too good!  We had elected to launch on what was being forecast to be the hottest day since the summer of 1976! The…

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