A puncture leads to a swim.

Today we flew from 8am through to noon with all three aircraft busy with students. Sean Runcie went solo again and so did Adrian Tinson. I flew to a mountain strip in the Thruster called Clemansane . This is a remote strip at 3500 feet altitude and is always a pleasue as it is only 20 minutes from Tallard. On our return Brian Blackburn took off with his student only to have a puncture at 1200 . The Thruster has been flying every day without any problems although a local French pilot pointed out the fact that the Thruster was stationary at the bottom of the airfield. After driving down we found that the machine had a puncture and we towed it back using a trolley under the defective tyre. The tyres are tubeless and they are not always very easy to replace as a large volume of compressed air is required to pop the tyre out onto the bead. Two of the smaller bolts that attached the disc to the wheel rounded off as we tried to remove them. After showing the defective bolts the impact driver we got them out and managed to get a new tyre on the rim. With temperatures hitting 40 degrees we headed off the Gorge de Meouge. The gorge is a natural feature that is only twenty minutes from the airfield and was a welcome break from the heat. Have a look at the footage to see where you can go for a lovely swim when it gets too hot in the afternoon.