Date: 12/7/2014
Time: 14:10 - 15:25 (13:10 - 14:25 GMT)
Aircraft: EuroFOX - G-UFOX
Wadswick and Severn
Bridges
Ian and I are going to Wadswick today - haven't
been there for a while.
Ian
has the outbound journey and after prepping the aircraft we are son off from
26. However, we aren't taking the direct route - to make the flight a bit longer,
we are going to south of Salisbury Plain. We head down to south west and then
past Alderbury; there is some relatively low scattered clouds. We go past the
Fovant Badges carved into the hills and then climb up to around 6000' above
the clouds. We follow the edge of the danger zone to west of Salisbury Plain
and then north towards Wadswick. We find it easily and join downwind but the
landing doesn't go quite as planned so correctly Ian goes around and has another
go.
We
go in, sign in and then have some lunch. We have a little mosey around the country
stores before our trip home.
My
turn in the pilot seat for the return leg and I too want to extrapolate the
flight rather than going straight back; I decide to go west to see the Severn
Bridges. After warm-up I trundle down the hill to the threshold of 28 and then
take off, followed by a turn to the left to avoid the Colerne zone. Passing
to the south of Colerne, we then pass over the disused Charmy Down, past Yate
then over to the Old Severn Bridge. We drop down to 800' and cross the river
to have a look at the prettier Old bridge and then loop around to come back
across the river past the New Severn Bridge.
We
then head back over the (now defunct) Filton airdrome. Here they have one of
the Concordes looking at little lonely. We then follow the railway - I had an
idea of having a look at Box tunnel but I hadn't planned it. l find a large
tunnel but its not Box - with later investigation it turns out that Box is very
close to Wadswick - ah well. We then pass over Castle Coombe race track, past
Chippenham and Calne. We the follow the familiar valley back to Popham. 
We
join overhead and land on 26.
Another nice flight and I also took a nice little
pic of G-UFOX outside the hangar.
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Ian
has the outbound journey and after prepping the aircraft we are son off from
26. However, we aren't taking the direct route - to make the flight a bit longer,
we are going to south of Salisbury Plain. We head down to south west and then
past Alderbury; there is some relatively low scattered clouds. We go past the
Fovant Badges carved into the hills and then climb up to around 6000' above
the clouds. We follow the edge of the danger zone to west of Salisbury Plain
and then north towards Wadswick. We find it easily and join downwind but the
landing doesn't go quite as planned so correctly Ian goes around and has another
go.
