The Flyblogger flight to Germany (Marl) was cancelled due to the weather in Germany, and high crosswinds for almost all fields and expected rainshowers in The Netherlands. Ton and me decided however to fly out, and meet Frank and Pascal in Lelystad.

The flight to the field was wobbly, but Ton's landing on EHLE was a very neat and controlled crosswind landing. Beautiful scenery on the way, but hard to shoot pictures.

We bought some updated VFR charts in the pilotshop and after that went for lunch with the Lelystad based Flybloggers. Nice to see you guys!

The flight back was different. The weather had deteriorated (at least over the Flevopolder), and we took off with light rain. Visibility from 1000 feet was marginal. Ground view OK, but poor ahead (with VFR limits of course :-) ). We had planned to cross the Schiphol CTR but decided that in these conditions that would not be a good idea. We called Amsterdam Info to report our position, altidtude and asked for other traffic reports. There was only 1 police helicopter playing around, and the frequency was otherwise very quiet. In the vicinity of Victor the weather cleared, and Schiphol METAR reported 10km's visibility. We asked Amsterdam to inform Schiphol of our crossing intention, which was approved. Cool!

The weather improved towards the coast and we even saw some sunshine. In Scheveningen a few of the beach bars were already set up again:

The wind in Rotterdam was 300 with 13knots which is a nice cross wind. The TAF earlier had pointed out a 30018G28 with 250v310, so the actual situation was better! My landing was not the best I ever made but quite OK. Great flight!

A few more pictures: click this link