Long final for Annecy AeroporteWe were about to take off for Annecy a few minutes ago and then met some incoming pilots who said Annecy is fine but the high ground in between isn't! So we have retired into the shade for lunch. Great! I'm starving.
(Later: By this time the weather was clear and very hot at Bourg and the restaurant refused to provide us with food! It looked as though they were only doing food for the helpers that were working on the little local airshow. So we queued uncomfortably for a very indifferent pizza and I gave up trying to get some frites because they were so busy. )
08:00
After a three hour delay because of fog yesterday, we had a very pleasant flight from Bagber Farm (Dorset) to Beachy Head where we coasted out for France and diverted to Abbeville. The low-level mist over the Channel looked so attractive with blue sky above and bright sun shining down on it. We arrived Abbeville at 16:00 to see most of the squadron taxiing out for takeoff, met up with Kevin & Sheila, cleared formalities and then flew to Autun for fuel. The squadron was then together. We then took off for Bourg-en-Bresse one hour before sunset with 75 miles to run. Our final landing was completed in a dramatic yellow sunset.
I then discovered I had broken the screen of the notebook kindly lent to me by Jill, my sister-in-law and so at present I am unable to process any photos for the blog. This is being written on a Blackberry and if you're reading it, it is thanks to my brother Peter who has posted it.
This morning we were planning to fly up to Megeve altiport (a mountain airfield) at 07:00 but we are sitting waiting for the fog to clear and still hope to do it.
Quite a change from the previous evening!
High-level strategy meeting (with hardly a chart in sight)
which decides to make to Annecy
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