When we left Rhino the weather looked ok with a bit of wind but nothing to worry about. All was well in the world ! For a while..... Then we saw this on the horizon.
Soon the horizon became dark, by the time we were past Bronkhorstspruit more fluffy clouds were forming below us.
Not long and it looked like this
Now there was no way I was going to get stuck above this lot! I decided that I will have a look below, a quick decent from 6500 to below 5500 produced a gap to fly in, there was still hope ! But by the time we were about 5 miles from Witbank we had a solid wall before us and a dropping ceiling. I have no photos of this as I was WAY to busy flying the plane and trying to find a way around. I decided to give Henni a call and suggest we turn around, at that moment I got a call on the radio from Dawid (from Microland) informing me that they spoke to someone at Witbank and there was a heavy storm over the field, that sure made up my mind for me !
We did a VERY quick 180 and headed for lighter skies ! Even so we still had to negotiate a few clouds there were very low and in our way but soon things were getting lighter, I sure was happy to see the sun again :D
We then decided to follow the Microlanders to Afsaal, bathed in beautiful sun, arriving there we found a few trikes and a Gyro (from Kittyhawk)
Here are WOG and AEN enjoying the sun after our little "adventure lesson"
From there back to Rhino and a good breakfast and chat about our shared adventure !
I think the lesson was that you have to be so careful with the weather, it can close in real fast and you can end up in a VERY bad situation !
So that was the Witbank breakfast that was not, maybe next month ? Lets hope !
Fly safe,
Rudi
