Sunday morning brought us lots of sunshine for a Bath launch. The normal crew of two swelled to four as Chris came out to see if he could hack being a 'balloon chaser'. We were also joined by Pete, friend of the pilot, who is a qualified pilot working towards getting his commercial license, he also gave a hand.
Launch was 'normal' with a flight East/slightly South East. Pilot had trouble finding suitable field and ended up on the edge of firing range at Salisbury Plain! The range warden happened to be a 'jobsworth' who told the pilot that he would have to report the 5/10 metre infringement into the firing range which was not in use!!....but it seemed to be ok to go flying into the 'death zone' if you owned a quad bike and your name was Colin!!
Sunday afternoon was a Glastonbury take off in high cloud across the Somerset levels in light winds,landing near a river and having to cross four fields owned by four different owners!!!...lovely basket of passengers who thought I was very fit for a 50 something!!! :-D
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Used to find the same jobsworths when I went canoeing. So annoying when you are not creating any damage / inconvenience
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