Sunday 1st August 2010
Meteo France announced stormy weather arriving from the west this morning, briefing competition therefore takes place at around 6am, I had lunch with Jean Jacques he tells me about his experience ULM (pendulum, PPG). Navigation provided is more complicated: Gateway to the magnificent Millau Bridge, then a route through the valleys, looking for 8 to find churches in villages on a line on a Michelin map, the last church, then heading 360 ° 222 ° to intercept another track, then we must identify six cemeteries after then heading 360 ° and 367 ° out of 6 km is the exit door. The departure is to move quickly before the bad weather expected. All machines are in the air at 8:30. Jean Jacques gives us the ride on a photocopied map, you can enjoy taxiing before takeoff to quickly prepare the nav, it triggers the GPS above the Millau bridge and go to the NAV, the ride is beautiful, it was very hot, but today there is less turbulence, we'll see tonight's results. We continued our journey to the Périgord to Belves St Pardoux. I know this track for having walked with a Piper Archer II in 1990 with my instructor Valerie Langlois. She was an intern in the same hospital as me in Paris. She already had accumulated 2,500 hours of flight (plane, helicopter, aerobatics ...) ... Valerie knew this track because a few years before because of weather was very bad to the cow in a field at the foot of Belves. She had been off again a few weeks later, but using very little gasoline, and removing the seats and everything that could lighten the machine! We fly over the runway of Sarlat, we contact the tower frequency 122.15 Belves Ulm, it is 11, all machines are already on the ground ... it must be asked as soon as possible a wall of cumulonimbus clouds is a few miles from the runway, thunder rumbles, lightning is seen, it's beautiful, but beware of danger should arise. We're on short final grains begin to fall, the Dynamic's hard to slow down, I go too fast 120 km / h, the machine delivers the bounces I gazs, lap Low altitude train trips, the machine has finally slowed down much, I wonder in the rain, the track is wet, the ULM stops by dragging a bit (Beringer brakes are very effective). We go up the taxiway of this beautiful track 800m, all Ulm are attached to the soil because in case of gusts in the squalls are light they can turn around. The perfect home is a giant BBQ is held. We expect the weather to hear the briefing start time. Journalists in turn ("ulmag.fr" first online magazine, more than a million connections), "Miss Weather Catherine, Sebastian Perot (Vice President) left the hotel at the edge of the runway (Superb held by the instructor base, cottages, pool, very well kept) to take advantage of the WiFi access. It became entrenched to send a message and photos on the blog. During the four hours of waiting I met a couple of competitor Cyril and Cathy. They fly for two years in swinging at Niort. Cyril was TT dentist Wallis and familiar friend of Xavier Berge Samu Noumea. Jack Krine the chief pilot of the tour (a legendary aviator) regales us with her acrobatics (MCR ULM French Areo of Dyn) lazy eights, drums ... it barriquets magical. 4:30 p.m. relaunch for precision landing on a runway ULM south of Marmande. We go up the river to see some castles. The landing is gentle, Christian like the 3 notches of flap, I put in 85km / h it is in the nails. We did a "touch and go" landing scramble towards the coast, it rains again, bypassing the grain, the ceiling is 500 feet, the CTR of Bordeaux Merignac is not far off we see an airbus off . The rise in the Bay of Biscay is quick. Flying over the coast of Les Landes, Soulac impressive Gironde estuary guarded by a lighthouse at its entrance, Poitevin Marsh, St Pierre d'Oléron and its salt marshes, Ile de Ré, Les Sables d'Olonne, the bridge of St Nazaire. We pass on the frequency of the Baule and surprise there I hear the voice of Popoff on the frequency! Popoff is you hello ... marco ... we are on top of a red boat near Pornichet. Popof joins us with his Cirrus SR 22 and we double overview of the magical Bay of La Baule, Lawrence is also there with his legendary aircraft the Chipmunk, from 1947 he joins us for a formation flight, what a joy it is very beautiful, it's good. We dined with friends at the Villa aviators (excellent restaurant La Baule). Falling asleep Popof in Virginia and with all these incredible images.
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