After sitting around all day Saturday, reading, drinking coffee and not being bothered flying I opted to cure a mild hangover by having a flight to Enniskillen's St. Angelo airport on Sunday. It was warm and calm but the visibility was poor to say the least.

Flight up was a nippy 45 mins, which made the fact I have about as much RT's skills as one of my cats be brought to head. Instead of making a total fool of myself I opted to bumble through it with a minimum of words, and hope I would not be told off, worked a treat on this occasion.

The landing was honestly my best ever onto tarmac (not being use to landing on big, solid, wide lumps of tarmac I have a tendency to round out about 5 feet above in order to test the suspension and undercarriage strength of our friendly T600).

After staying for a couple of hours drinking coffee and chatting inanely we got ready to head home. I got refuelled, did my checks and warmed her up. Moved to the 33 Alpha hold and again prepared to 'blag' my way with the Tower.

HE) St' Angelos, this is G-MZHE requesting tax to the C2 hold for departure.
TOWER) G-MZHE, bleh bleh bleh (me lost looking at passenger)
HE) Cheers

I trundled on down the runway and heard
TOWER) G-MZHE please take the C2 Taxiway as BLEH is turning onto Finals for runway 15.

A quick right turn into something that looked like a taxiway and I again calm down, feeling content and warm inside.

TOWER) G-MZHE for your information thats not the taxiway, continue now but in future use the next turn-off.

Oops, ah well no harm done. After bouncing along over all the potholes, I eventually got to the hold and from there set off on my way home. My gawd a runway is big in compared to a grass strip.

Michael, my passenger was great, sat there and didn't complain about not being able to see, etc, etc so cheers for that! His first time up in a microlight and he's threatening to take a 1/2 hr lesson.

Thankfully they are a friendly bunch in St' Angelos, but I think for future I'm really going  to have to brush up on RT skills. First decent flight in 3 months with 2hr's 40 in the air so I am now almost excited about messing about the place all summer.