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We have just come back from the opening ceromony where all the teams parade around in uniform and the local dignitaries give us speaches and the competition is declared open.
This afternoon we start preceedings with 2 powered precision landings where we are scored for touchdown accuracy.  But to make things slightly harder we have to fly the circuit in exactly 4 mins (takeoff to landing).  We have a two second tolerence to get max points after which we loose points.  Then tomorrow we have an engine off spot landing and a soaring task.

Morning all
The weather here is not all that good to say the least....  It has now been raining on and off for three days, we were going to get up early this morning and go flying but yet again it is rather damp!
Yesterday was spent re-calibrating the fuel tank and checking the fuel computer is working accurately - it is!  We have been constantly practicing deck landings in all conditions, it makes a huge difference doing one with lots of wind and then one in the evening in still weather.  As the day went on my landings got worse and less accurate....

Hi Guys,
Well, yesterday after finishing setting up camp it was our first day of practice.  Andy and myself went for a little fly around the local area just to get an idea of the lie of the land.  Then we practiced lots of powered precision landings and spot landings.  We are quite high here, 1861 feet, so the takeoff performance is not great, but i think we will still takeoff in the 100m box.

Hi Guys,
Hope you are all ok back home and doing some flying?
 
Just to let you know that we all arrived safely yesterday evening after a really nice flight.  We left friday afternoon and flew direct to Abbeville (on the somme) where we spent the night.  Then we flew due east across France and into Germany - ran into a really big thunderstorm on the german boarder which we had to divert around - lots of lightening!  Then flew across germany yesterday and to our airfield, Jihlava, in Czech.

The new online diary / booking system is now up and running. To view the online diary type in the following into your browser http://exodusbooking.truepr.co.uk
In order to then book lessons online you will need a username and password (which is not the same as the exodus website!) so please ring me and i will give you the details and a briefing! The Diary will also enable syndicate bookings etc

Well we brought William home last night so have spent our first day with just the three of us - quite scary actually.  He has finally just gone to sleep and so has Louise so ive got some time to catch up.
So seeing as i am stuck in doors, its over to you lot to tell me about the wonderful flying you did last weekend and about the plans you have for this weekend?  Andy, Gt, Mr Greene, surely you have been flying???
Captin Craven, have you sold your plane?
I might have to sneak out soon for a quick fix myself - is 4 days too young to go flying??!?!

You would imagine that now its the depths of winter that things are going quiet at the airfield...Not so!
After three months of hard study CFI Rob becomes approved to teach Instructor Courses on both flexwing and fixed wing microlights. 
A new office has been purchased to expand school facilities which will provide a large dedicated lecture / briefing room and additional office space.
Exodus has just picked up a new aircraft, the all new  P&M Aviation QUIK R. Demo flights are also availiable.

Dear All
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy Christmas and new year.  I would also like to thank everyone who has helped me to make this year so successful. We have had many new pilots passing their GST's and many new solo pilots.  For me it has been the best flying year ever with 800 flying hours and many memorable trips.

I am now back from Poland, we left on Monday and it took 2 days/16 hours to get home.  We had great fun whilst away and even managed to win another gold medal!  Pics of me and Chris below.

Hope you all like the new website - please register and then start adding content to the blog! Also any mistakes please let me know!

Evening all - We all made it out to Poland safely.  It took me a little over ten hous to fly here.  The airfield at Leszno is a huge open field which is great and the facilities are good too - which makes a change from some comps.

Today we flew the official practice task which is designed to test all the organisation side of things as well as giving us a proper practice.  I think we did ok so will await the scores.  So it is now nearly ten o clock here so a cold beer calls