'tis the night before leaving and all is quiet.
Flight plan is lodged with an ETD of 0600Zulu. Donna could tell you but I advise that this is about 4pm Sydney time. Give it an hour or so and the newly purchased lithium batteries should be posting a track of our journey.
The plan takes us at 7500 feet through the following waypoints over a 6 hour trip:
Porta
Akoki
Cls
Toledo
Valencia
Morss
With a final destination of Alghero.
Most of the above points will mean nothing to you but, to me and other pilots, they are points in the sky usually determinable by radio navigational tools or ground features.
I can't tell you how many of us are fixated on Spot me waiting for the next blimp to appear. It's all very exciting and I am now wondering if I could have manned up to it and withstood the rambo nature of the trip. After all, I di recall a rambo with you and Rod through dense bush!
ReplyDeleteI am watching the SPOT. He left right when he said he would at 4.00pm AET. You shoulda done it Don!
ReplyDeleteI made a comment shortly after seeing the takeoff on Spot at 7.25 their time this morning. But it seems to have been deleted, says he huffily.
ReplyDeleteHowever, you've now flown over the Balearic Sea, the southern tip of Majorca, over Port Mahon and southern tip of Menorca and are now flying over the expanse of the Med, approaching Alghero.
I know you know all that, but I like writing/saying the names.
All looking very good.
OOPs, my comment about taking off was on the previous post. But I did make one when you were approaching southern reaches of Madrid, which seems to have disappeared.
ReplyDeleteAnd my time for takeoff was 7.12, not 7.25as in the above.
How has it been temperature wise today?
Latest news is that they have arrived and there is no Avgas! I'm glad I am not there. Bad enough worrying from here. They are heading to Corsica which apparently has Avgas.
ReplyDeletestrange. Spot seems to have landed a few nautical miles out in the Med. Did you buy a sea plane ?
ReplyDeleteYes, I was a bit worried about that! But it looked a swimmable distance!
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