My yesterday's Mach Loop mishaps.
The plan was to take off from Llanbedr airfield, runway 15, enter the Mach Loop from WSW into Machynlleth, follow A470 CCW up to Cross Foxes Inn, turn left and follow A487 down to Machynlleth, return to Llanbedr and land on RW 15 again.
Part one is flown in September with heavy Thunderstorms around.
I had to get up in the loop a bit as there was zero visibility and I could only guess my position from mountains aside my path.
On return, I failed to find the runway and got distracted by ATC when aborting the landing.
Oh by the way... no clue why on part one the plane violently turns right on the takeoff run. It's not wind and it's no control input either. Really strange...
Part two is flown in November, icing conditions.
Didn't familiarize myself with the Citation sufficiently beforehand, so I couldn't quickly find the deicing switches.
Which eventually rendered the plane uncontrollable when I missed a right hand turn at Ceinws and pulled up into the clouds.
Hope it's a bit of fun nevertheless.
Mike