11-07-2012, 09:28 PM
On a return flight from Luxor, I spot a huge storm cloud above Amsterdam (Schiphol is right under it!)
![[Image: enb2012_7_11_18_50_11.jpg]](http://s12.postimage.org/7ho9vzrgt/enb2012_7_11_18_50_11.jpg)
Thinking it would be better in the UK, there is an overcast above most of the Northeast of England
![[Image: enb2012_7_11_19_28_17.jpg]](http://s12.postimage.org/fsa33tn0t/enb2012_7_11_19_28_17.jpg)
A few sunny spells in the clouds
![[Image: enb2012_7_11_19_38_42.jpg]](http://s10.postimage.org/cdo8cp7t5/enb2012_7_11_19_38_42.jpg)
...and it begins to rain below 2500ft at my destination: Newcastle.
![[Image: enb2012_7_11_19_50_30.jpg]](http://s11.postimage.org/mizalcd4z/enb2012_7_11_19_50_30.jpg)
Unfortunately after disabling the autopilot on the default A321 on minimums, and forgetting to turn off the flight control switches, the aircraft
dives and I get a blown tire!
5:45 minutes without time acceleration and it turns out like this... 
![[Image: enb2012_7_11_18_50_11.jpg]](http://s12.postimage.org/7ho9vzrgt/enb2012_7_11_18_50_11.jpg)
Thinking it would be better in the UK, there is an overcast above most of the Northeast of England
![[Image: enb2012_7_11_19_28_17.jpg]](http://s12.postimage.org/fsa33tn0t/enb2012_7_11_19_28_17.jpg)
A few sunny spells in the clouds

![[Image: enb2012_7_11_19_38_42.jpg]](http://s10.postimage.org/cdo8cp7t5/enb2012_7_11_19_38_42.jpg)
...and it begins to rain below 2500ft at my destination: Newcastle.
![[Image: enb2012_7_11_19_50_30.jpg]](http://s11.postimage.org/mizalcd4z/enb2012_7_11_19_50_30.jpg)
Unfortunately after disabling the autopilot on the default A321 on minimums, and forgetting to turn off the flight control switches, the aircraft
dives and I get a blown tire!


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Shaun Patterson
Shaun Patterson