| I thought that engine would now start more easily because it was only yesterday when we operated the craft, but no. We struggled for two hours before it started to idle smoothly. There sure is moisture somewhere, but we didn't find it. Next time i will bring a spare battery with me so i don't have to go and get it separately. | |||
| It was good that we were there early and this didn't ruin our hovering day. At 13:15 we were on our way in a sunny weather. | |||
| Again once running it run well without any problems. We decided to stay on ice and not to hover over water as it gets annoying to try to crank the engine numerous times. | |||
| We headed right away to south-east to explore ice situation. We had a light head wind and GPS showed 33-35km/h (~21mph) speed. Now we found out that in this direction solid ice was 3-4 times than before cold weather. We could have gone to practically to the furthest island before open sea by ice. However we would have had to inevitably cross at least some amount of open water too and did not want to do that. | |||
| So we took the southern route back. This turned out to be longer than expected. And after all we had to go under two bridges that had open water flowing rapidly underneath them. This was populated area so we took "the risks". We got through and headed around islands towards bridge where part of the windmill park is located. Those cars looked like ants when they passed the four large mills. | |||
| After windmills i decided to take eastern route (longer) to our destination. First time this winter we saw cars and tractors on ice. Weather was perfect, it's good that this happens at the weekends and not so much during the week. | |||
| We did 38,2km (23,7miles) in a sunny weather at average speed of 25,8km/h (16mph). | |||