Monday Morning (attempted) Flying

Apart from spending Christmas with friends in such a wonderful setting the other reason I went up to Underberg was to assist with some filming of the Umzimkulu River for the organisers of the Drak challenge canoe race in February. They'd asked Jeff to film the river for them to play at the start of the race.

The day broke calm, but not completely clear, so at 5 am we went off to the airfield in Himeville anyway. Both windsocks on the field were blowing in different directions. A whisp of mist rolled over a near by hill... not really encouraging signs.

Then the windsocks hung limply for a while so we took off in the Bantam. Once a few hundred feet off the ground the Berg wind bumped us around so we decided not to risk the low level flying in the stew along the course of the Umzimkulu and landed again. We'll give it a try next weekend. The long term weather forecast shows partly cloudy, but light winds. That's what it said for last weekend!

I wasn't looking forward to the hour and a half drive home, then on to work....

Thanks Jeff.

PS. We eventually got round to filming the Umzimkulul River. See Monday, 5 January 2009