The January blues.

Apart from flight to Lancaster at the start of the month, January has been a month of fruitless pickings. This has one hundred percent been due to the weather. Although the Vis, wind and prevailing conditions have not necessarily made flying impossible, the fact that Barton is a grass airfield has. In fact, although the weather has been poor on many occasions, the days of perfect flying weather directly following the fronts have been unusable due to the fact that the airfield was still recovering from the heavy downpours. There has even been snow this week, which for the last couple of years has been unseen in Manchester. Finally though, the weather looks promising for this Saturday, the 27th January. With little wind, no rain and generally more mild conditions than we have recently witnessed forecasted by the met man, one can only cross their fingers and hope. Having a number of potential flight plans created, mainly for Caernarfon, Huddersfield, York and Blackpool, I am all ready to go. Victor Alpha only has another 4.5 hours to go until its 50 hour check is due, with my luck in aircraft approaching their checks, fingers crossed everything goes to plan!