Time to take to the skies...

Yes, it's time again that I am on my travels once more. Once again I'm off to a business workshop in the UK.

The trip itself is routine, and the place is not far from Heathrow Airport. The big issue this time is the weather.

I've had some annoying experiences in recent times caused by airplane malfunctions and those annoying little lights in the cockpit that light up just as we're all ready to go.

I've had quite a few weather-related inconveniences too, like the time I was flying with some colleagues from JFK to Raleigh-Durham and the toy plane we were flying in kept icing over. It was one of those nights where we seemed destined to not get off the ground but we did. Turned out to not be such a good thing as we ended up stranded in Raleigh for 2 weeks with the coldest weather seen in North Carolina in over 80 years and a curfew imposed by the National Guard as food supplies ran low.

So the forecast for the UK tomorrow is for snow. Not much mind you, not exactly what you'd call a Nordic blizzard. Maybe 5 cm of snow, I make that just shy of 2 inches. Nothing to really worry about until you remember that some parts of Europe just aren't used to snow and cold weather and tend to grind to a halt when a few flakes of the white powdery stuff fall.

I fly in during the afternoon by which time I expect things will have normalised. We shall see.

I don't expect to be able to post anything between now and Monday so have a good weekend and wish me luck as I head into the 5cm drifts expected to cripple the UK tomorrow.