Not really a trip report, just a few photos showing the airport facilities and Hebridean weather at it’s best:
Left turn in 12 miles:
Field in sight:
Midsummer sleet at 2000 ft:
This looks a bit better:
Where’s the GA ramp?
Sollas ATC:
Sollas passenger terminal, with modern convenience:
Hebridean sunrise – cold as hell and not awfully busy as Scottish fly-ins go, but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world:
Stop for breakfast at Glenforsa, then fuel at Oban where the firemen kindly helped me wash the salt off the old wreck:
Prestwick EGPK (where I learned to fly, after a fashion):
Home field in sight:
Home field in sight
You work for the NSA, evidently 
It was a bit rustic in those days…
Great photos. One day I will make it up there.
In addition to the great photos I liked the fastback 175.
Peter wrote:
One day I will make it up there.
You could make a diary entry for Sollas this year; 27th – 28th August.
Not in a TB20
You would need a crane, or a Chinook, to get it airborne again.
That surprises me, Peter. I’m not overly familiar with the TB20 and I could understand a reluctance to get salt in the gear, however I would have thought it would have been capable.
There’s always the LAA Strut meeting at Dornoch.
Misc. wrote:
You could make a diary entry for Sollas this year; 27th – 28th August.
Thanks @Misc. I’ll look forward to that and try to round up some scallys from Ayrshire and Galloway. Please book in provisionally a Pitts S1 with barbed wire tears on upper wing, a sleazyjet bus driver in an RV4, and an ex-French Connection CAP 10B.
@Peter can leave his TB20 in my hangar and bring the MX-7 which we’ll stuff with Hebridean survival gear…
My pleasure, although I am not an organiser.
I’ll PM you an organiser’s email address.
I’ll look forward to seeing the Maul there. I have a hankering for a Maul.
