Well I received my DZ 40-150 in double-quick time and had a use for it
yesterday. I was on my own at work with 5 students to fly, but the weather was
very difficult: clear skies but with fog only 5 miles away to the north and
south, forecast to roll in. Since the students had travelled a long way to fly
I thought that I should at least have a go, but remain in sight of the airfield
in case the weather deteriorated suddenly. Well it did, and I had to zip back
quickly from a few miles away and 4,000ft. There was cloud already covering
most of the airfield and I had to dart under the stratus at around 300ft. As I
did so, Tower told me that there was another aircraft diverting from Cambridge,
a Pilatus PC12. When it landed I thought that it might be a spy machine of
some sort, not having heard of the registration before, nor having seen such a
machine in the colour. In addition, it had a pod on the starboard wing which I
took to be some sort of ECM device.
But it was just an exec jet carrying pax for a Danish company. I took a couple
of photos before I discovered that it wasn't on nefarious CIA business, then
went a bit closer and talked to the pilot.
http://threeshoes-photo.blogspot.com
I really quite like this lens; thanks Ian Nichols for pointing it out on the
Auction Site :-)
Chris
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