These weathermen need shooting, I blame them for me not flying today and them stealing my fuel. 
Let me explain. Today was supposed to be 8-9 mph winds and 22°-24°. What was it 16-24 mph winds and 30°! Not only that, because of the hot weather I am loosing about 1.5 litres of fuel a week due to evaporation from the wing tanks! I have now drained the tanks so that there is only a few litres in there to keep the fuel lines wet.
On the lighter side we did get a lot of small jobs done today. I have been making some extension pieces for the seat backs to bring the seats more upright. I started off with 1.25″ but this is too upright and I hit my head on the steel cockpit cage. I then tried 1″ which was better, but I still can’t get my ‘large’ stomach back far enough to get full back movement of the control stick, so 3/4″ seems to be about the right amount. Not too laid back that it is uncomfortable and not too upright to push me forward in the seat. I just need to make the second pair of stops for the other seat and then try them out on a reasonable flight to see if they are comfortable. The beauty of these stops is that they can be removed easily if I am not happy with them.
We also tried a canopy cover designed for the skyranger by Cover Systems with the help of Andy at Stoke. They are really lightweight covers that will keep the sun out of the cockpit on very hot days, and well made too. I was really impressed with them.
Last of all we tidied up the hangar a bit until it became too hot to work in there.
No flying but a useful day instead, oh did I mention we also had a Roast Beef dinner at the airfield as well.
