Saturday 25th June 2011
The forecast wasn't good, but it seemed that the weather would clear by midday and we may still be able to get to Texel, but probably only via Calais.
There was initially quite low cloud (1000' max) and fairly high winds. So we packed the plane and prepped it and waiting for the weather to improve.
Improve it did at Gloucester as the sunshine broke through, but still with pretty high winds. But continued looks at the METARs (weather actuals) for various channel and French airfields was far from encouraging as the low cloud seemed to cling to the channel coast.
So by mid-afternoon, we reluctantly called it a day, as the forecast for tomorrow was really very good, and at this stage the best we could hope for was a hop to Calais. I am sure we would have made it, but to what purpose?
Not a great start!
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