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I have managed to find time with my flight simulator over the past few days, which I haven't used for a month or more. It takes a bit of setting up with the controls each time so I need to plan a bit. On Friday afternoon I flew my Czech Cold War jet trainer from RAF Cranwell (Lincolnshire) to Biggin Hill (South of London - now a civilian airport) and yesterday, back again. I wanted to get used to the radio compass for navigation on a route I was fairly familiar with which didn't take too long (less than an hour each way including take off and landing). It's a bit more challenging these days as I have real weather set (data downloaded from the internet) so, particularly, on Friday it was tricky as there were Lightning storms about. A big black rainy cloud over London as I my my descent just prior to landing so wind, fog and driving rain with no visibility for what seemed like an age. I'm glad I am getting familiar with instrument flying. With this aeroplane being Warsaw Pact the instruments are metric - height in metres and velocity in Km/h and all the instrument labelling is in Russian. Luckily though the essential instruments are fairly similar across the world.

If anyone is interested here is a video of a training flight in a real one. Those who like roller coasters may like this. It gives a better sense of reality to me than most :