Snowy Cancellation

Flying Hours Today 0:00, Total 11:25

On Friday the first snow of the season had settled on the ground in Yorkshire, and most of the rest of the British Isles too.

This meant that Saturday was a perfect, blue sky day. Very cold and crisp. The air was perfectly still. Driving over the Pennine Hills from Manchester into Yorkshire a very visible temperature inversion was in place. A band of dirty brown smoke and pollution was hanging over Huddersfield, Bradford, Leeds and beyond.

In the distance the vapour trails from the three power stations of Eggborough, Drax and Ferrybridge could be seen rising vertically. Unfortunately the forecast for Sunday wasn't so good, and in the end the weather turned out to be not conducive to flying.

Low level cloud at 500ft and some drizzle. So another lesson cancelled. I took the time out to review the exam requirements for the next two papers that I will sit - I plan to take the Aircraft General, and the Flight Performance and Planning together as they are quite closely related.

The target is to have these two closed off by the end of the year. Leaving only the navigation and the R/T to do.