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Well I have done this route a few times now! The weather was excellent, clear skies and probably the best visibility I have ever seen over the channel.
Took off and climbed to 4500’ and proceeded to sit there for the whole trip. I was expecting clouds over the UK and that is what it looked like, but it was only the effect of looking ‘edge-on’ at the cloud layer, when I got to where the clouds should be, they weren’t there, but further on and so on.
Farnborough Radar were frantically busy and I barely managed to get the call in. I really do take my hat off to UK controllers – they do a fantastic job (oh, and Langen Info as well, although they were far from busy).
Asked for and got a transit through the western edge of Brize Zone to stay well clear of parachuting at South Cerney.
Check the Gloucester ATIS and got a standard overhead join for 27. Good approach, but a bit fast and was penalised with a ‘floaty’ hold-off and a landing past the first intersection.
We parked up and pushed back into the hangar. While I completed the logs and other formalities, Dan unloaded and cleaned to perspex and leading edges of the wings (by now these we covered in fly-splats).
The very nice lady on reception at Gloucester was quite taken with our, by now pretty smelly, team t-shirts and Bavarian hunting hats (note to self..... get more than one t-shirt made up for each of us next time!).
A nice easy run back into Gloucester on the planned date.
