Author Archives: austerpilot

The forecast is looking good for Friday through to Monday. The bags are packed, most of the gear loaded ( tent, sleeping bag etc etc ) and the lines on the chart marked down. I plan to leave tomorrow morning … Continue reading →

  Well – its been wall to wall sunshine up here in Scotland since the weekend and very nice it is too! We’ve broken 20 deg C, even! Wow. With all this dry weather maybe our strip will dry out … Continue reading →

After a couple of group members carried out the new permit test flight at the weekend, I grabbed the chance to get back in the saddle myself today, following a 7 month lay-off. I wondered if I’d remember how to … Continue reading →

Work is progressing slowly with the exhaust on our ground clinging old Auster – two sides of the exhaust stubs are attached and it remains to fit the new heat exchanger box and sure it all up. I’m not going … Continue reading →

Another syndicate member has provided their impressions of JT and it’s been added to the BLOG’s ‘Memory Lane’ section, under the ‘Articles and Events’ header. You can read it here Seems a common thread with old JT – so terrible … Continue reading →

Ahhhrrgggg – frustration! The weather has been lovely recently and poor old JT is still in bits in the small steel shed that is the hangar at the strip. Waiting now for new gasket seals – the ones we have … Continue reading →

The newly fabricated exhaust arrived late last week – Swiftair made a great job of it; building it from scratch ( need to get a photo up here of it ) so we’re now just waiting for our gangpressed engineer, … Continue reading →