Today we went on a flight up North with Sari's remaining hours that he had left over after passing his IR. We set off up inbetween Birmingham and East Midlands controlled airspace and arrived at Stafford. After a little bit of navigation we saw Sari's house and gave his family a few low passes in different configurations and at different speeds, which was a great deal of fun! You can see (excuse the shaky video) that they had made a huge banner which was sprawled out over the lawn, providing a message to us in the sky, which was a really nice touch.
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Picture taken from my back garden in Banks, Southport. |
Sari, very kindly, allowed me to head up North over Liverpool and up towards Southport, so I could go and wave the wings at my parents, who were in the back garden on lookout after I'd given them an ETA! We passed over my house and I could see them waving and jumping around as they saw us fly over and like at Sari's we were able to do a few laps before departing to the South, to begin our 180 mile leg back to Oxford.
I'd like to thank Sari for allowing me some of his flying time to spend going to make my parents very happy to see their son fly over our house. It was a fantastic day out and a great experience flying the Seneca without IFR screens for a change!
All in all, a pretty active and exciting Saturday afternoon...
