It was finally time for Mike Lima and I to leave UK soil. This was to be a short hop across the Channel and clear with French customs at St Auban. The weather forecast for the trip was pretty good, although the haze lowered the visibility quite considerably. With all checks completed, we were soon airborne making tracks for the Seaford VOR, our last UK waypoint.
Turning onto 145 at 4000' I tracked the Seaford VOR until Nav 2 picked up Dieppe. At 50nm from Seaford I entered cloud, and started the descent
towards Dieppe, before picking up the St Auban NDB. Setting my altimeter to St Auban QFE, I was glad to break out below the cloud at 1000', with the two parallel runways almost dead ahead. With a 7kt North Westerly, runway 31L was the ideal choice, and after a fairly tight left-hand circuit Mike Lima settled on the tarmac for her first visit to France.
All in all a pleasant short leg, although it would have been nice to have seen the French coastline as I crossed it, rather than white cloud!
