A hundred miles away

A hundred miles, close enough to get there in less than one hour, but far enough to be interesting. A friend of mine, Cyprien, is building time on his logbook and he offered me to join him for some short navigations. He flies the plane, and I take the pictures, that’s our deal.

During the last few weeks, we’ve been flying in that hundred miles radius around our departure field, and according to the direction you go, the scenery differs a lot. We headed first to Marmande, that’s on our southeast. On that day, weather was just good enough to go, and we discovered our aircraft is not water tight when we flew under a rain shower on our return trip. The club there is very friendly, has no landing fees, and lets you park almost where you want. Funny thing: there’s a golf course next to the runway, with not even a fence to separate them.

Here are some pictures from the Marmande flight, rest of them is in the Gallery, as usual.

Next, we went to Royan, that’s around 35 minutes north of here, across the Gironde estuary. In this direction, we follow the coast line almost all the way until we cross the river, then avoid overflying the city, and finally land. This airfield is really different, it’s more than busy: it’s no bigger than Marmande, but there’s a big skydiving club, some helicopters, and a lot of private pilots… need to watch around carefully and talk to the radio !

Some photos on the way : (link to the Gallery)

So we went east and north… we did south last week (the Mimizan flight, article below), and west seems difficult from here Where to go next ? Looks like we’ll have to enlarge our flying radius !

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