After six days on terra firma, Greg is back in the pilot’s seat of BE2e 8646 practising turns and landings.
Log book entry
Date: 20.4.18 Hour: 8.45 Instructor: – Machine type and No.: BE2E 8646 Passenger: – Time: 1 hr Height: 1500 Course: Aerodrome Remarks: Turns & landings (3).
Although the title of this post is ‘Back in the Saddle’, in reality what the pilot sat in was a wickerwork chair, much like this example from a Bristol F.2b fighter:
Not much protection from groundfire, of course, but there again neither was the fabric-over-wood airframe. No-one said it was going to be anything other than dangerous.