'We must go to Nottingham', she said.

'Lots of the Flyer Forum crowd are going to be there this Sunday', she said.

'It would be good to meet up with them', she said.

So to keep her quiet the HFC decided to go to Nottingham, a new to all airfield and within a reasonable distance.

The normal gathering together, checking out aircraft, fuelling up aircraft, looking at the weather, looking at the wind, checking who has been allocated to which seat. It was agreed that the destination was Nottingham Tollerton and not any of the other local airfields. Check the wind again.

The aircraft set off.  That cross wind for northbound to Haverhill was as strong as the TAF indicated, nose into wind on 346 rather than track of 001.  Chug, chug.  Turn right at Haverhill, not much difference between track and heading but a large difference between IAS and ground speed.  Follow the A14 for part of the way.  Hey that tanker down there is overtaking us!

Chug, chug past Graffham water, chug along and that should be Leicester over on the left.  We are slowly getting there.  Wonder how the others are doing.  Just about there, time to call up Nottingham.  Things get slightly confusing as we have to wait and seem to be forgotten, do a largish orbit, now where has the airfield gone.  Finally after a little prompting that we exist we join the circuit, accept that there is a bit of wind and settle nicely onto the runway and so to parking and the clubhouse.

   
Juliet-Mike arrives at Tollerton, eventually ...

But where is this large crowd of Forumites.  Seems they have already grabbed a vehicle and gone for a nosh up somewhere.  Tollerton airfield does not offer much.  'She' goes over to chat to a couple of lone EGMC forumites who seem to have missed the bus.

Check on the winds.  About turn for home.  The wind has not changed although there is quite a strong sun making the landscape a bit difficult to differentiate at times.  Who just passed rather close overhead. Was that Leicester that we passed so quickly?  Graffham water to the right. Looks like Wyton down there.  Pass Cambridge onto the home run.  2 hours to get there.  1 hour to get back.

So another airfield into our books.  All good experience and great to have done something at the end of December.

[Text by Jane] [Pictures by Rob (only two as the camera batteries died), click picture for a larger image]