The instructor takes us to our plane, G-HERC
Nosher Flies a Plane, Cambridge Airport, Cambridge - 28th May 2008
It's just over one year to the day that Isobel got Nosher a 40th-birthday voucher, for an hour's trial flying lesson at Cambridge Airport, before we finally get together the oppositely-conspiring forces of time and weather and manage to pin down a day. The day itself turns out to be not the classic "blue sky" one would expect, but has low cloud at 1500 feet and swirly cross-winds at around 16 knots, and so it seems for a while that the weather might frustrate again. But no - we take off in the Cessna 172 and Nosher is given control at about 1200 feet for an hour's flight over the fens to Huntingdon, a spin around Graffham Water, a few manoeuvers and then back to base, all the while flying through some bumpy air and even some clouds, technically flying IFR for a few moments.
next album: Morris Dancing, and Rick Wakeman Opens the Park Pavillion Mural, Diss, Norfolk - 30th May 2008
previous album: Cambridge and Hoxne Beer Festivals, and Mill Road Dereliction - 26th May 2008
Isobel carries the headset bag to the waiting plane
The instructor checks the fuel levels
Nosher by the Cessna
Nosher in the hot seat
A passenger's view
The cockpit of the Cessna
Nosher goes through the pre-flight checklist
The Cessna rolls up Cambridge Airport's runway
Cambridge from the air
Cambridge, with the railway station to the right
King's Chapel is just at the bottom left
Nosher at the helm
Some flooded fields
Some sort of quarry
Sediment flow in Graffham Water
Sediment eddies around the shore
The flatlands of Cambridgeshire
Huntingdon Industrial estates
This might be St. Ives
More floods
A river runs through it
The Green Dragon bridge and the River Cam
The roundabout on Perne Road
We cross over Cambridge Airport before finals
The instructor checks around
Final approach as we cross the A14
Our Cessna - G-HERC - on the ground
Isobel and Nosher
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The instructor takes us to our plane, G-HERC
The instructor takes us to our plane, G-HERC
Isobel carries the headset bag to the waiting plane
The instructor checks the fuel levels
Nosher by the Cessna
Nosher in the hot seat
A passenger's view
The cockpit of the Cessna
Nosher goes through the pre-flight checklist
The Cessna rolls up Cambridge Airport's runway
Cambridge from the air
Cambridge, with the railway station to the right
King's Chapel is just at the bottom left
Nosher at the helm
Some flooded fields
Some sort of quarry
Sediment flow in Graffham Water
Sediment eddies around the shore
The flatlands of Cambridgeshire
Huntingdon Industrial estates
This might be St. Ives
More floods
A river runs through it
The Green Dragon bridge and the River Cam
The roundabout on Perne Road
We cross over Cambridge Airport before finals
The instructor checks around
Final approach as we cross the A14
Our Cessna - G-HERC - on the ground
Isobel and Nosher