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Great weather this week

All over the UK and most of France and Spain, and N Europe.

It's one of the very rare times one could fly from S. UK to Norway (say Trondheim) and come back 1 or 2 days later, without flying through serious frontal weather.

But there is a lot of morning fog around, and the plane will be covered in frost if left outdoors overnight.

EGKK 190950Z VRB02KT 0250 FZFG OVC001 M01/M01 Q1020

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Little bit better weather for today's flight here :)

LDZA METAR 191130Z VRB01KT 9999 SCT035 05/00 Q1015 NOSIG

LQSA METAR 191130Z 31003KT 8000 FEW013 SCT023 BKN040 03/M00 Q1013 NOSIG

LDZA LDVA, Croatia

If I had more time I would pop over to Losinj or Brac this week

I bet the Alps are spectacular, FL180, with little or no cloud cover

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

I was in Split on Sunday - it was just great - almost no icing on climb through clouds from Zagreb and then 100 km visibility :) on top. It was minus 12 degrees at FL110 and the engine performed great. Pretty much same situation as shown at this sat image.

LDZA LDVA, Croatia

Did Basel-Mallorca the other day, skirting the alps on the west side. Indeed superb visibility, what a joy. I like this launching into a drab Basel 600 ft, 3 km vis soup, and then suddenly break out and see these majestic Alps over a straight layer. It symbolizes flying as an activity to leave the ground really behind you. A nice tailwind to boot, home in 3.5 hours.. The approach into Mallorca was rather cloudy so rather than cancelling IFR opted to get onto the ILS to the main field and then break off to my home base when visual. the usual rant: "Diamond, can you increase speed please, various traffics behind you". Well, afraid these white nosed Brits and Germans had to wait a minute or so more before they could start working on their tan.. My little Diesels can only do so much.

Private field, Mallorca, Spain

Metar
EGKK 170820Z 05007KT 020V110 CAVOK 08/M02 Q1030
EGKA: no results found
EGHI 170820Z 06004KT 350V110 CAVOK 09/M03 Q1030
EGHH 170820Z 08004KT 040V130 CAVOK 09/01 Q1030
EGKB 170820Z 05006KT 010V080 CAVOK 06/M01 Q1030
EGMD 170820Z 01010KT 9999 FEW018 09/05 Q1029
EGJJ 170820Z 07010KT 9999 FEW021 08/03 Q1028
EGJA 170820Z 06010KT 9999 FEW020 08/04 Q1029
EGSH 170820Z 03006KT 350V060 9999 FEW017 08/03 Q1031 NOSIG
EGXC 170750Z 01001KT 9999 FEW040 08/03 Q1031 RMK BLU
TAF
EGKK 170454Z 1706/1812 03004KT 9999 FEW045
EGKA: no results found
EGHI: no results found
EGHH 170755Z 1709/1718 VRB03KT 9999 FEW030 PROB40 1711/1718 18010KT
EGKB 170755Z 1709/1718 05005KT CAVOK
EGMD 170755Z 1709/1718 04010KT CAVOK
EGJJ 170801Z 1709/1718 06008KT 9999 FEW025
EGJA 170801Z 1709/1718 05010KT 9999 FEW022
EGSH 170755Z 1709/1718 02005KT 9999 FEW045
EGXC 170722Z 1709/1803 07008KT 9999 SCT040

and can’t go abroad…

My Alps trip could have been done any day for the last week or more. I might just have to do another one…

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

I was going to fly on Friday. About 20.00 on Thursday, the phone rang. Could I come in for my second Covid vaccination tomorrow, 10.00? Now I’m following the FAA 48 hours before flying rule as I couldn’t find anything on the CAA site.
Only side effect is a strong feeling of unhappiness at not flying, as I look at the weather.

Maoraigh
EGPE, United Kingdom

I have never before seen a high pressure stick around as long as this one has.

It is now starting to disintegrate, into the usual troughs, but not over most of the UK yet

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

And with good weather of course you get this (filter set to under 5000 ft):

EDDW, Germany
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