Paul Trots up to FL160

Encouraged by an approaching cold front, an excellent instability forecast and the availability of Piet (Heavy metal*) Truter in the tug, Paul Troskie (GIG) climbed to FL160 today, but was still some 3000ft short of that elusive diamond!

*Heavy metal not only because of the large noisy 'heavy metal' he flys for SAA, but also because of the devastation wrought by his email 'broadside' deliveries (for a colourful explanation of life with a 'broadside' see Patrick O'Brian famous but now deceased author of the Aubrey-Maturin series).