The best laid plans…

The plan for this weekend was a flying visit to Sandy for their beach party on Saturday, or a trip to White Waltham for Sunday Lunch. Neither happened. Sandy was a washout for us, there was low cloud and forecast heavy showers, so we were going for Sunday Lunch. Once in the air Sunday we realised how bumpy it was so went off the idea and flew around Essex instead. Rosemary flew for a short while while I was resetting the GPS etc in far from nice conditions. Her training seems to have been worth while she was a lot more confident and controlled HotelSierra well in bumpy conditions. I was very proud of her!

The approach back to Stoke was interesting, the wind was varying about 60 degrees from a tailwind to a headwind on both runways, so you took your chance. I elected for runway 06 as the wind was favouring that runway when I was overhead. By the time I was on final it had swung around and I had a tailwind and a crosswind! It was a fast and very long landing. This was my first tailwind landing in HotelSierra!

Listening to the video afterwards, on final, I was huffing and puffing like a pregnant woman giving birth! It certainly was something which took a lot of concentration.