What a long day! Today was our long planned trip to Key West. We flew down along the coast past ft Lauderdale and Miami at times as low as 500ft about a mile from the coast. Fantastic views of the buildings in Miami. It was a lot of work, as there is a lot of busy airspace down there and we had to keep switching from one controller to another. Past Miami and down along the keys was just fantastic. The water takes on a new blend of colours. Thousands of little boats were visible below us, and provided we stay at least 500ft away from them, we could go as low as we wanted!
After landing we cycled through the town to the Ft Zachary state park, which had a nice beach to swim at, and had some dinner in town. Then we headed back to the airport and this is where our problems began. We Taxiied out to the runway without a problem and did our runup, basically testing that the engines accellerate smoothly, the tried to taxi onto the runway, but the plane wouldn't moved. We eventually managed to shift it to the side of taxiway, just in time for another plane to pass us and take off. We got out and saw the state of our front tyre. Totally flat.
I walked back (a long way) to the FBO which fortunately was still open. One of the line guys drove me back to the plane on a tug, and we got towwed to the maintainence hangar. A couple of hours later, we were fixed up and good to go, after paying the $150 bill. (which I claimed back from the school here).

