Landed.
Nice wx here, and got greeted by the very nice airport manager. So far the aircraft is 100% French 
Probably no table unless you booked.
The only apparently non-French fly-in visitors were myself and StevenR and his friend in his Commander.
We left around 1230Z, as the band of weather
was moving in from the UK.
The flight back to the UK was fine – at about +6C, mostly IMC, a bit of turbulence, no lightning, and pretty solid rain.
Nice flying conditions on the way there
The nuclear power station near Lydd, from FL070 – not a bad pic for a phone
Frontal weather on the way back
Extremely unhappy I couldn’t make it – please don’t ask for details – plane and pilot are physically ok.
The nuclear power station near Lydd, from FL070 – not a bad pic for a phone
As long as you didn’t get this close to the one near Calais!
I think FL070 is OK for the French nuclear areas – they are normally about 1000m AGL (3200ft) IIRC.
BTW I think the EuroGA autorouter’s tracking facility is really reliable and much more so than EuroFPLs or, reportedly, Rocketroute’s which appears to use indirect data. The tracking for both flights was never lost despite squawk changes:
The second one also shows quite dense samples near Shoreham… not sure why Eurocontrol should be generating denser samples in this case.
The lunch would be familiar to British pilots
I didn’t make it in the end – decided to exercise my new IR by flying to Germany instead.
Coming back through that front was a non-event even in a TB10 – the ADL gave me confidence that all the interesting stuff was well to the north, and that there was (and had been) no lightning.
There was a wonderful gap at FL100 where the convective activity topped out:
Got a bit wet descending into Biggin, but no ice (freezing was at FL100) and only mild turbulence:
Can’t believe how easy the IR makes everything!
