Were on a road to nowhere.... today started early with a no fuss planned fly-in
fly-out breakfast... it was a great flight in, no traffic as expected, showers
and low level cloud to weave around.. 125nm into 153nm destination low lying
cloud started getting thicker and lower as the sky to the north started turning
dark grey... into the first valley we went to check it out and decided to pull
the mission, leaving a handful of more curious aviators investigating
possibilities...
out we flew the way we came in and back past abeam a very busy local
grass strip full of pilots peeing before heading back home... with about 60L
of fuel left the europa just kept going... eventually nature dictated a forced
landing at a lovely airfield where we peed on a shrubbery and that felt so
very good to do... full power down 15 and heading out over rising ground was
not difficult for the europa, and we went the rest of the way back to base...
the adventure continued at rounding out hitting some lift just when you are not
needing it, so back up into the sky we went, full power and observing 1000min
at 80kt IAS; very impressive for 80hp and two up... second approach was
successful
and we were backtracking soon after to pack the cruise missile away with
the help of the fully engineered rail system completed after a week long very
long construction just the day before.
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