SEVERE Turbulence & Thermals En Route From Sandown, Isle Of Wight To Ashcroft Via Oaksey Park 

Pilot Jonesy - thank you. That’s my last really long one for a while!

Jodel Flyer it was absolutely stunning! What a lovely place the IOW is from the air. It’s beautiful it really is! I think the dislikes were my use of the word “severe” in the title. I got a few messages off people saying that “I didn’t have a total loss of control therefore the definition is wrong”. They are correct but it felt severe to me and this channel is supposed to be a bit of fun 🙈

TR Admin thank you! Yes I was laughing about this. I am only in my 3rd year of having my licence and have only started to stretch my flying legs over the last 12 months and back then I probably would have turned around! It’s all character building though and the experience is making me a better pilot. Eurostar’s are a fantastic and highly capable aircraft!

john tomlinson thank you! Yes for a fairly new pilot (only in my 3rd year) it was as Charlie described it, “character building”!! And I will be better mentally equipped to take it in my stride next time but after a while it just got a bit tedious! Totally unlike the “hands off” journey down! It was definitely worth it though. I think the GoPro’s did a fantastic job of capturing the beauty of the island.

@@LetsGoFlying I do exactly what you do and use the old method as a back up Skydemon has fantastic stability not only that you have multi device access, im convinced there are less positional mistakes as a result, I could not have read a map well in those conditions good video and well done for diverting and taking a break good call !

Lars Bjart thank you! I’m pretty new at this compared to a lot of pilots so it was a little out of my comfort zone it being so rough and still having such a long way to go so I just needed to know I had a bit of respite coming up! I look back and I’m definitely better for the experience of those kind of conditions though!

Nick Axon thanks so much!!!! It takes a long time to put the episodes together so it makes my day to get feedback like this! Thank you again!

You're very welcome and hope to see you flying over the menai straits when air space is open and you ever fly over Beaumaris get some footage 😉😉😉

Nick Axon have been that route many times on the way to Caernarfon! I’ll try and dig out some footage and stick it on Tik Tok!

Thank you! I’ve just sold her actually but got a new one coming next week!

Let's Go Flying oh cool, what are you getting next?

Kenneth Hills a Eurofox. I’ve always wanted one!

Let's Go Flying I really like the look of them, I bet they are great fun, we will have to meet up one day at an airfield. I’m hoping to pick a plane up next week too.

David Colley thanks for the feedback! It was definitely unpleasant 🤣. I will most likely do the same from now on!

Thank you!! I was using 129.835 which is an air to air frequency reserved for microlights to improve situational awareness in the air! I hope you get up soon - I don’t think it will be too long now!

Keith Brown good to see someone raise this point! I always check the NOTAM’s first and then plan my route on Skydemon as it allows me to zoom in very well. I then copy the route onto my chart and do “backup calcs” should my GPS fail. The chart is in the baggage compartment behind the passenger seat so is accessible should I need it. I also take note of the towns, cities, landmarks & VRP’s around me so I know exactly where I am at all times!

Attilio Bellachioma good eyes! That’s not a power cable though, it is an audio adaptor - that’s how I record the audio directly onto the camera without having to record it separately!

Sean McDonald I can’t remember actually what it was we were using. I’ve got it written down somewhere I’ll try and dig it out!

@@LetsGoFlying that would be useful thanks

@Darren Clare I was wondering if that was it and how many are using it

I was using 129.835 which is an air to air frequency reserved for microlights to improve situational awareness in the air!

@@LetsGoFlying I've been using it too but yet to hear anyone else hence the question! A friend heard a couple of others on 129.830 a few weeks ago and they were 200 miles away. Good to see it .835 in use!

Chris B I know! They were so high though and I have honestly never seen so many gliders around! At one point we counted 8 above us circling around the base of the clouds! Superb day for glider pilots!

It was one of the best gliding days recently. At least 3-400 gliders flying that day, 120 alone from Lasham. Some were doing 500km+ and 6 hour long flights. A day out in a glider would probably get you over your thermal fears and teach you where to avoid!

lashamgliders wow that’s fascinating stuff! It was incredible how many we could see which is why we didn’t attempt to climb above them, I wouldn’t say that I “fear them” as such - They were quite aggressive and it was mostly rather uncomfortable. But it does sit in the back of my mind as you are being thrown upwards or hit a patch of sinking air that “I hope this isn’t over stressing the airframe”. I must admit, I do wonder what it must feel like riding the thermals in something that is designed to do just that, however, having only one attempt at landing does sound daunting!!