Evening flight over Unsworth, Bury & Bolton 3rd Oct 2019

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First flight after my two year biennial and recent revalidation onto the Eurostar EV-97, I took Kat for a flight over our house in Unsworth in Bury and circled the Unsworth Junior Football Club pitches at Hillock where I used to manage a junior football team. We then flew over to Chorley and Horwich for some motorway spotting.

Despite being late into the evening, the Barton frequency was busy with plenty of locallly-based traffic, Helimed 75 on an emergency flight and Rescue 912, a Coastguard helicopter on a search and rescue detail.

On a very sunny evening we talked about Secret Bases, spy stations as we flew towards the sea and bothered Warton Radar for a service. After a quick sortie to check Winter Hill's TV transmitter was still there we returned to a very busy Barton circuit full of Pipers, Cessnas, Microlights and 'fake helicopters' !

Watch all the way to the end for the fake helicopter. It's worth it!

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