Old JT has another one up her sleeve for us – she’s apparently blown an exhaust gasket – we’re all not far off from blowing a gasket either……

Well – it is winter, more or less and the strip is the usual quagmire, so we’re going to take the opportunity this month to renew the Permit early, while we sort the gasket issue and tidy up one or two other jobs that need doing, like finding and fitting new generator brushes and having the new exhaust shroud specially built by a company in England. It doesn’t help that I have bust ribs at the moment, but I should be of some use in a week or two, when our LAA inspector is available.

Apart from that wonderful trip down to North Weald, the amount of flying I managed this summer was very disappointing and we were plagued with that generator problem, among other things – I did have some great flights (see blog archive), but they were much more infrequent than I would have liked – here’s hoping that next year brings better weather and an aeroplane that will co-operate!