Following a night of thunder storms and a rather rainy breakfast we departed from Biggin Hill into cloudy skies. After a short flight we arrived in an equally cloudy Le Touquet and made our way into the town centre in the hope of finding some lunch.
We soon sat down at a restaurant for the obligatory post-flight beer and moules mariniere. After a quick stroll down to the beach we headed back up to the airport for a pre-flight briefing. David greeted us with champagne and all 21 crew and passengers mingled and became acquainted. The group consists of quite a few nationalities, mostly French but also British, German and Dutch. In all there are six aircraft in the group: a King Air, a Piper M500 and the remainder TBMs; ours is the only G-reg aircraft. After a few photographs we all walked over to the airport restaurant, L’Escale, for a fabulous three course dinner
