Many thanks Rob for the awesome words. Plus your support John.
I can honestly say that my many years of Microlight flying went a long way in helping Vince and I to win this years PTAR.
As a microlight pilot you are so exposed and aware of the elements. Just this enabled us to pass 2 aircraft within the first 5 minutes on day one.
The only way I knew we could fly faster was to use our Turbo charged ROTAX where it would work best and go for altitude wherever possible. The higher we flew, the faster we would go. Of course not into a howling headwind. By the end of day 1 we had pulled a 9 minute gain on our handicap. As you can imagine the serious high speed petrol guzzlers were not impressed that this little Sling with a Rattex motor was ahead.
We agreed to a 3 knot handicap increase, putting our handicap speed at 121.5knots. Fairly fast for a Sling.
Anyway with our position adjusted but still ahead from day one. The pressure was on for day 2.
Our navigation was great and we managed to get high on 2 legs. We pushed every scrap of speed we could. Expecting to be overhauled by our closest rival in a 400hp machine traveling at 200 knots. The relief when we crossed the finish first. But spent the rest of the day waiting to find out if we had won because we were started 4 minutes early in error.
Average speed achieved for the 2 days was 127knots.
Microlighters have balls. Most blik airie Pilots are too scared to fly in one. Yet they look down on us. How wrong they are
Fly safe all. Big G
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