26-08-2011, 03:23 PM
Good of you to offer Chris - but I've just got back from the field after doing both strips. Samste-Steve turned up while I was there and offered to help too, but it was basically in the bag. The heli zone didn't really need a mowing and my enthusiasm vanished before I got to the taxiway and pits area. The cross-strip is now perfect, but the main strip was really still a little too soggy to mow properly, but I did it anyway - it meant that even with my petite and delicate frame, I have left some deep footprints in a couple of patches which I'll need to tamp/flatten down early tomorrow morning after the mud has had some more time to dry out. I'm surprised the ground is as good as it is frankly, I didn't expect it to be serviceable this weekend at all.
What I'd really like to do this afternoon, but I don't expect it's possible - is to get over there with a trailer full of sand to dump into the hollows on the main strip.
Anyway, we're good to go for tomorrow and if the weather forecasts are accurate it should be a great morning's flying!... just got to get some planes airworthy before then.
What I'd really like to do this afternoon, but I don't expect it's possible - is to get over there with a trailer full of sand to dump into the hollows on the main strip.
Anyway, we're good to go for tomorrow and if the weather forecasts are accurate it should be a great morning's flying!... just got to get some planes airworthy before then.
Steve Murray