If you've got time to spare, go by air!

I was supposed to take Thomas to Albury yesterday, which seemed to be a simple enough undertaking.
The Aero Club's aircraft was supposed to be in for a service, so I booked another one through the flying school... and all was well until they decided that since I hadn't flown that particular aircraft for over 60 days, they wouldn't hire it to me.
OK, its their sandpit. The Aero Club's plane was already out of the workshop, so I decided to take that one instead. Its cheaper, too, so thats a bonus.

Rain has started falling by this stage, so we crammed all the luggage inside, and taxiied down onto the hardstand in the rain to get more fuel.
Here the problems really started - first I coulnd't get through to Shell on the phone, so I had to get out of the plane, run through the rain across the tarmac to their office and ask in person....

"Sorry, we cant sell avgas today... our truck is broken..."

Yup, the single truck on the field that refuels aircraft with avgas is broken, and cant start its own engine, which means it cannot pump fuel either.......

40 litres of fuel on board wasnt going to be anywhere near enough for a trip to Albury, so we settled for a couple of circuits instead...
At least my landings are pretty good.

What was going to be an early night before a 6.30 shift at work didn't quite work out as planned, with an afternoon stretching to evening to night, culminating in driving down the freeway at 1 in the morning playing Dragostea Din Tei over Aya's car stereo... much to the surprise of anyone passing...

OK- its been a while since Ive posted on here - many apologies, and I promise I wont be writing in German again for a very long time.

Life's just been so busy these days, and with such lovely warm weather its already feeling like Christmas. Since exams finished last Friday I've been busier than I thought I would be, but then so has everyone else, so thats pretty well normal around here.

Ahh... life is good :)