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Bill Vincent

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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: JOHN WILLIAMSONS PICTURES

Hi John

Thanks for the great pics! It's neat to see a Kolb flying at night. The 

closest I came to flying at night was one time when I hit a head wind while 

trying to get home, the cars had their head light on and all the lights were 

on in town, I had to make 2  passes down  the runway to scare the deer away 

and then line up between the trees and hoped for the best. 

Bill Vincent

FS II

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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:15 am Post subject: JOHN WILLIAMSONS PICTURES

It's neat to see a Kolb flying at night. >>



Hi all,



is this another freedom that you have that  we don`t ?. Its illegal here to 

fly after sunset.



I have flown in the dark once in my old Thruster. I was cuaght out by a 

bank of cloud which  covered the west.  The sun went behind it and never 

came out again and it got dark about an hour before time.



I picked my way along a road, following car lights, getting lower and lower 

to try to hang on to the ground. Pinpointed my position at a motorway 

intersection and then launched across a valley with no road, towns or lights 

guided only by the lights of Bath University on a hill 5 miles away and Bath 

itself about 7 miles away to my right. It was great. Like being Dracula out 

for a night trip.



I picked up a couple of car headlights under me as they drove up a hill 

through woods and then saw a light patch of earth which I remembered had 

just been harvested. I dropped into the field, swinging violently around a 

large tree which I could only see as I got low enough to catch it against 

the skyline.



I sat in the plane getting my breath back and a figure loomed out of the 

darkness. "Why didn`t you land in thic girt field over thur?. I didnt` like 

to say `Because I couldn`t see it `



The farmer gave me a lift home, and the next afternoon with a  mate and a 

couple of farm hands we lifted the Thruster over a barbed wire fence into 

the large field from which I took off and flew back to my home field about 3 

miles away.



Very exciting.  By the way `thic girt` means `that large` in my home dialect 

of Wiltshire.



Cheers



Pat

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