Saturday, April 25, 2009

The trip approaches


Last year my attempt to circumnavigate europe by microlight was foiled by apalling weather. After 4 days stuck in Albenga Italy, with no prospect of improvement, the trip turned into a circumnavigation of France. Enjoyable though that was, I wanted to repeat the attempt this year.
This time I have a different aircraft G-TREX. This is a Pioneer 300. It is heavier (560kg) faster (125knots) and has additional complexity of retractable undercarriage and a variable pitch propeller.

The route will be the same as last year, but this time I will make an assessment as to whether the route should be clockwise or anticlockwise according to the weather forecast.

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