For all those who have been kind enough to show an interest, I am
delighted to say that my son Patrick and I completed our Half Million
Islands challenge last Sunday. We started at Lee on Solent at 5.10am and
touched down in Lerwick at 8.15 pm, after 1703 nm flying at an average of
130.2kts. We photographed all 119 islands named on the 1/2 mill charts and
stopped 3 times for fuel in Caernarfon, Oban and Stornoway, ( and had a Long
Ranger tank). The weather was kind to us except for a low cloud base over
the Pennines making the excursion to Farne & Holy Islands a bit trying, and
also a low just west of St Kilda making its presence felt with heavy rain,
highish wind and 700 ft cloudbase. The plane performed immaculately.
Patrick has put a short video on line at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOB2dZbBNvw
Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ
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