Bruce, I recall on a recent visit to Orkland (I've got to stop calling it that) we flew to North Ronaldsay, and my phrase was that we flew so low you could reach down and grab a sheep! It was really a wonderful flying experience, being so low, and not at all like the main routes where the earth is a misty grey-green patchwork far below. You could see everything, and quite clearly. What a beautiful place to fly. Actually, there are these small parachute jobs with motors where you can fly about 30 miles per hour, very low, and just circle and look at things at leisure, and the machines will fit in the back of a small van and take off and land from a short strip of road. Now that would be fun. Tuck Tuck On Apr 18, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkney) wrote: > On 18/04/2010 17:44, Tuck wrote: >> Bruce, >> >> From what I've read planes can fly at low altitude, under the cloud, >> and certainly from Stronsay to Kirkwall they wouldn't get much above >> 30,000 feet. So you might be in luck. >> >> >> Tuck > > > I wouldn't like to be in one of the Islanders at 30,000 feet without > oxygen! Its service ceiling is 13,200 feet but on the Stronsay/ > Kirkwall > run it rarely exceeds 1,500 feet. > -- > Bruce Fletcher > Stronsay, Orkney > <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk> > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message