Friday 20th February 2009

Yipee another flying day at EGSR … Debs & Nigel were on a panto high after a good opening night (oh yes they were!!). Nigel & I went with Yvonne on an advanced PPL lesson … well Nigel needs me to put him right coz I’m a good instructor (girlpower!!)
Well this turned out to be an eventful lesson! We went flying in GBCFR and Yvonne was doing some advanced upper airwork and Nigel was demonstrating a manoeuvre when he lost power (I did say that he should have let me do it!) and the only way was to keep best power level was to leave Carb Heat on … bizarre! We declared a PAN (OMG) & headed back to the airfield … I made sure I looked after Mother on the way back and let Nigel fly it (art of delegation!). Well he managed to do a perfect PFL onto the field & landed spot on the numbers (show off!!) and Vic followed us back to our stand in the fire truck …. Where the a/c then died! Phew – what a flight …. Think I’d rather have had a stiff drink than the cup of tea I was made!
Didn’t fancy flying any more today after that but Vic made me go with Debs when she was bringing ET back from mtce (yikes – Debs!!) … then she asked Nigel to go to …. Well at least I know he can land in an emergency!! Hey mum – when are you going to rescue me from here??!