New Blog

Hey All,

As you'll have realised I haven't blogged for a while, my time on St Helena is coming to an end and the last few months has been quite a hard slog.

Anyway, rather than restarting this blog to update on what I'm doing next I've started a new Blog. It's Orange.

Flying Clarification

The above is my favourite Photo (ok so I am a Roads Engineer), but I've been examining my shoes trying to work out which one it was. Rémi (who owns the Microlight and kindly took me up) has just told me it's his shoe!

Rémi has also just clarified that even though it was quite windy, he was steering and making decisions about where we went. However as he was in the rear seat and I was busy sightseeing (and thoroughly enjoying the experience) I didn't pay much attention to the piloting and then used some slight narrative licence when posting the photos. Rémi, I am sorry that it sounds like we were being blown around rather than steered, thank you for circling back over my office!

I wasn't the only one with a camera, Rémi had one too, and just to prove I did actually go up here are 2 of Rémi's Photo's

With the man himself (and shoe) in the second one (who else did you think it was?)

Dave's 6th Ever Flight

Today I took a pleasure flight around St Helena :)

 Shortly after take off from Francis Plain

Circling for Height, looking back at the landing ground

 Looking down at Harpers Valley, those reservoirs should have a little more water in them!!!

As should this one 

 High Knoll Fort

Redhill and Redgate

 Redgate a little Closer

 And closer again!!! [with Remi's foot]

 I can see my house from here :) Looking across Sapper Way and Cleughs Plain

Looking back across Half Tree Hollow

 And down to Donkey Plain

 Lower Cleughs Plain

 Plantation House and Pounceys above

 That's me!!! Well not me, but our shadow

 I think this is Guinea Grass

 Plantation and Pounceys again, it got a bit windy so we were changing direction a lot [as Remi steered us around]

 Guinea Grass again and Rosemary Plain

 The Zig Zag road between Sunnyside and Scotland

Scotland in Front, then Plantation and St Pauls Cathedral

 3 Peaks in the Distance, I think we're about level :)

 If you can see your house from here thank you for organising this for me

(Rosemary Plain)

 If you can see your house from here - get those reservoirs filled!

(Oaklands)

 Urm... this looks like Thomsons Hill, but I don't remember going that far...

 The Zig Zag road again with St Pauls and Half Tree Hollow Beyond

oh and hills in the background

 and again

I can see my house from Here:)

 See!

And Again!

 The Wind is heading for Ascension and [Remi is] taking us over New Ground

 High Knoll

Ah, heading back for the landing ground

Clay Gut 

 Half Tree Hollow

 Closer

And the wind [not the wind, Remi] takes us round in a circle so I can see my office. Nice wind [Remi] :) 

Am I going back to my house? 

 Clay Gut from the other side

Urm...

The front 2 fit nicely, except for the gap which the back one doesn't quite fill properly.

But I was in the air!!!

 Pounceys

 Empty Reservoirs again

Coming in to land 

 Or not

 Redgate again

White Gate

Plantation and St Pauls 

St Pauls and Pounceys 

 Coming in to Land

Coming in to land 

Last look at the View 

Have we missed?

No, we got back safely

(there is also a wing, but that was taken off)

Many thanks to Remi for taking me up :)