Ferry flight to Elstree

Cabair offered me a ferry flight this morning, just to take G-KINE for her annual check. The route to Elstree is fairly tight along the Heathrow control zone and also the Luton zone so as this was my first time visiting Elstree a new instructor kindly agreed to come along. Even though it was his day off.

It has been awhile since I have flown an AA5 but quickly remembered the speeds and where everything was in the cockpit. The navigation proved easy as there are alot of visual references enabling us to stay clear of the class A controlled airspace, infringing it would likely mean a loss of my pilots licence hence was critical to keep on top of the navigation. Weather was pretty hazy and we were skimming under the cloud at between 1800-2000AMSL with vis at around 7km, good enough. Landing at Elstree was uneventful so we parked up and awaited our lift. Fiona and Angela arrived in another AA5 and we jumped in for the return journey.

Sitting in the back was really funny as Angela and Fiona were having fits of the giggles, this was a training flight for Angela with Fiona the instructor. Angela pulled off a very nice landing back at Blackbushe.

Only 0.7 hours P1 time, but good to get back in the air with Lima Sierra still out of action having magnetos serviced, also it was my first FREE flight! I hope to get as many ferry flights as I can in future.