It is tight Mike and not many people like coming in because of it. I didn't like it when I first started flying from here but funnily enough, although I still treat it with great respect as you can tell from the video, I now love landing here and it's become one of the best bits of every flight no matter which aircraft I'm in. It's amazing what you get used to isn't it. A bit like those guys who fly the back country in Alaska! Yup, the house is coming along. I've still got lots of videos that I shot but have never made so must get back to doing some more at some time. The interior is 95% done but only furnished for the most part temporarily. I'm loving the heat pump which is incredibly economic to run. I had a wood burner for heating in my old house plus a gas hob and just used electricity for lighting, hot water, fridge, freezer and oven. I use electricity for everything in my new house and am using under 50% of what I was using in the old place. The house-build distracted me from flying and I only did 3 hrs last year. I was feeling that maybe I'd lost my enthusiasm but after doing thorough maintenance of both my Savannah and the X Air, flying the Savannah back to the UK and this flight in the X Air, it's back again so I'll be doing as much more as I can. I've put the X Air, which I rescued and brought over from the UK as you may remember, up for sale today as I can't fly two aircraft and I can't stand the thought of it becoming a hangar queen when a new owner could be using it how it deserves to be used. I sorted out the log books today and hadn't realised, or had forgotten, that it's only done just under 600 hrs since it was built in 2000 and under 50 hrs since its engine was overhauled by Ecclestone Aviation. And my old friend in the UK who owned it had been told that it wasn't worth it economically getting it permitted again after a break of 2 or 3 years . Shocking!
Tight little strip to get into! First flight after maintenance is definitely the worst one! Hope you're all settled into the new house!
It is tight Mike and not many people like coming in because of it. I didn't like it when I first started flying from here but funnily enough, although I still treat it with great respect as you can tell from the video, I now love landing here and it's become one of the best bits of every flight no matter which aircraft I'm in. It's amazing what you get used to isn't it. A bit like those guys who fly the back country in Alaska!
Yup, the house is coming along. I've still got lots of videos that I shot but have never made so must get back to doing some more at some time. The interior is 95% done but only furnished for the most part temporarily. I'm loving the heat pump which is incredibly economic to run. I had a wood burner for heating in my old house plus a gas hob and just used electricity for lighting, hot water, fridge, freezer and oven. I use electricity for everything in my new house and am using under 50% of what I was using in the old place.
The house-build distracted me from flying and I only did 3 hrs last year. I was feeling that maybe I'd lost my enthusiasm but after doing thorough maintenance of both my Savannah and the X Air, flying the Savannah back to the UK and this flight in the X Air, it's back again so I'll be doing as much more as I can. I've put the X Air, which I rescued and brought over from the UK as you may remember, up for sale today as I can't fly two aircraft and I can't stand the thought of it becoming a hangar queen when a new owner could be using it how it deserves to be used. I sorted out the log books today and hadn't realised, or had forgotten, that it's only done just under 600 hrs since it was built in 2000 and under 50 hrs since its engine was overhauled by Ecclestone Aviation. And my old friend in the UK who owned it had been told that it wasn't worth it economically getting it permitted again after a break of 2 or 3 years . Shocking!