Fog!
We pretty much expected the forecast to be right and we are under some very thick fog here in Dieppe. Visibility is about 100m, but we are hoping it should lift enough by lunchtime to leave here and get 30 mins north to Le Touqet.
Utterly Epic.
We sat at the airfield restaurant in Northern Slovenia waiting for the temperature and thermals to settle down for a looong time and planned a departure that would follow a VFR route through the mountains to Postojna. Matt picked up a transit from Ljubljana info and they cleared us to 5000ft and so we climbed slowly into the mountains. After 15 minutes it became apparent Paul E was having some issues with unserviceable instrumentation. No Speed, No height, and a transponder telling ATC he was halfway to the moon. We worked out he must have something wrong with his static pressure port which controls all this instruments....this alongside his partially knackered Flydat giving him sporadic information about his engine. Matt notified ATC to disregard Paul's transponder readings and the controller asked for him to reboot his transponder. Knowing the issue at hand, Paul's somewhat animated response to Matt was that "it won't make any f difference, the ASI is F'd, but ...
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