They do 100 miles running races on the same route. They held one on day three of our trip, the leader passed us on 14hour 30mins pace. Never seen a fit guy look so unhealthy.
Got Covid. Was very much looking forward to a nice Father’s Day lunch, the one meal of the year I don’t have to pay for.
Played 9 holes at fairbourne golf course. It’s a sandy and very well drained course meaning the ball traveled much faster than I expected over ground I’m so far more used to playing on wet grass and mud!
Skin and Bone, had a mate who did long distance running events. Helped him out a few times dropping him off miles from home just so he could practise running long distances.
First day back in the saddle today, after 15 months off work due to open heart and spinal surgery last year. Spent an hour or two in the cockpit going through some checks with the chief pilot, then I am off to Milan next week, to spend a few days in the simulator and expect a beasting in there, to whip me back into shape. Going back again in early July for another week in the sim for yet more intense training and hoping I'll be cleared to fly the line again late July (just in time for 10 days off at WDW2024 ). Expect when I get back, it will definitely be back to the grindstone though, so looking forward to getting stuck back in and doing what I've loved for the last 25 years.
I'm inclined to agree with you. At least if/when the weather is fine. When it's not, that's when you really earn your keep, which is most of the time over the North Sea. ⚡️❄️⛈️
Drove the length of Spain over the last couple of days and now just docking at Plymouth. All very easy to be honest. Overnight ferry Santander to Plymouth is only 18hrs and seems incredibly quick compared to Portsmouth to Santander, which is nearly twice as much time. 6 days in UK and then I’m off again, this time on the Multistrada to the European Multistrada meeting. Bring it on!!!!!
Well having replaced the heated grips with normal ones ( not really necessary down here ) I may have discovered the perfect handlebar adhesive for the discerning Ducatisti. Whaddya think?? @nelly
what a career, what's the smallest and largest you've flown? In 25 years i hope you've never been hijacked, but probably have access to many stories. As a youngster I remember seeing what i thought was the tail of a plane flipping past a building while leaving a show (can't remember where). Thought nothing more of it until people started rushing in that direction. It was a bit gusty and the comedian Dick Emery had crashed lightly on take-off. He was unharmed, i can't remember his plane except it was light.
I'm old enough to remember Dick Emery..."Ooh you are awful, but I like you" and other classic phrases. Smallest aircraft flown was the Robinson R22, a two seater Lycoming piston engine helicopter. Great as a training aircraft but very unforgiving in terms of rotor RPM decay, due to lack of inertia in the blades, that has sadly caught many inexperienced pilots out, with sadly fatal consequences. The largest is the Airbus H175 and/or the Agusta Westland 189. Both are two crew machines with 16 passenger seats. Six axis dual autopilots and fully digital engine management control. Glass cockpit and a whole lot more. Great helis to fly and a LOT of power. Currently on the AW139. Been lucky enough over the years to have been rated and flown the Hughes 300, Hughes 500, Bell Jetranger, Sikorsky S76, Eurocopter EC155, Agusta Westland 139, 169 and the 189 variants.
Talked at length with a Chinook Ch-47 engineer a couple of years ago. I still find it incredible to think of the transmission linking both rotors together.
