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Well, Hugo was rescued from the local animal shelter and since he likes exploring new places, he likes to fly. To read the full story, check his sub page!
New SkyDemon Addon online!
It has been done! A new data addon for SkyDemon is online!
After some work we can now present you with the glider activity sectors for Germany. If you like the get them for other countries, let me know!
Day 7: La Roche to Vichy
The Surprise!
As I wrote yesterday Isabelle of the La Roche glider club had a surprise for us. For breakfast she made us a very good coffee and invited us to show us her other hangar. So we drove around to the south side of the airfield to a company named TOP GUN Voltige were Isabelle, her brothers and many helpers fly and maintain all sorts of vintage, aerobatics, jet and so on aircraft.
Isabelle, thank you for showing this to me!
Cessna 170
L-39 Front Cockpit
T-34
Boing Stearman
T28 Project
The Perils of getting Fuel
After we said goodbye to Isabelle and everybody else, we taxied 90B over the fuel pump. But there we discovered that our credit card was not accepted and the TOTAL carnet neither. Unfortunately the fuel wouldn’t last until Vichy and so we flew half an hour to Nior.
But after landing the AFIS operator told us the fuel pump was broken and hadn’t have time to put up a NOTAM. Well, as we were the only thing on the whole airport, I think that must be southern french interpretation of workload. At least the operator was kind enough to phone to Le Blanc if we could get fuel over there and if we could pay with TOTAL carnet which was assured despite another entry in the AIP.
So up in the air again and we landed in Le Blanc another 45 minutes later. But the fuel pump had no terminal for any card. And nobody was around to help us! So already running on fumes, we replanned again when a young lady approached us and we finally got fuel!
Next on the List: Thunderstorms
We new that there would be thunderstorms in the Massive Centrale but they would be far enough south of our route be be no concern. But because of the delays with the fuel the had begun moving into our path. When I asked Limogue Controle if on cell would be sitting over Vichy he just responded that that was not his sector anymore. So we switch over to Clermont Ferrant Approach and this controller was a great help finally! He helped us to fly around the thunderstorm cell and in the end to land in Vichy. By the way, this is the Vichy were the collaborative regime was sitting during World War 2.
Since the weather worsens by the day in terms of thunderstorms, tomorrow will be the first day we will be heading north again. Stay tuned!
Day 6: Guiscriffe Scaer to La Roche
It was another night with lovely people at Guiscriffe in Brittany. But as always, it came the time to leave. The airport manager Laetitia was so welcoming. Despite having all hands full with a holiday event to fly disabled children, she insisted to say goodbye and wave us of!
Day 4 and 5: Avranches to Guiscriffe Scaer
Avranches was such a nice place that Hugo and I decided to stay a little longer. And it was worth it. Besides swimming in the Baie du Mont St. Michel we met many nice people! Thereunder Micheal from Germany who is flying around in his RV-6. But always comes the time to say goodbye and so this morning we climbed back into 90B and departed runway 21 out the the bay. Continue reading
Day 3: Berck sur Mer – Grandville – Avranches
Berck sur Mer to Grandville
Yesterday was another great day for flying. Almost no clouds in the sky! Just some annoying 20kt headwind…
After breakfast we departed Berck southbound along to coast until Dieppe were we than cut inland and around Le Havre and Deauville. The flight than continued along the cost again along the D-Day landing beaches.
Day 2: Charleville – Berck sur Mer
As we woke up in our tent at Charleville the sun was shining already and it was beautiful flying weather. After breakfast we said goodbye to the Aeroclub of Charleville and departed westbound, destination Berck sur Mer. Berck is actually kind of the GA airport of Le Touquet and definitely closer to the beach. Continue reading
Day 1: Celle – Dahlemer Binz – Charleville
We are on the road again! Yesterday we departed our airfield Celle-Arloh in the late morning and headed towards France.
Plan and Replan!
Originally, it was planned to remain in Germany for the first night. But unfortunately my friend couldn’t accommodate us in the end. And so we decided to fly all the way into France on the first day. Continue reading
I am a HAM Radio Operator now!
It all began with my new job back in March 2020. As I left the electronics development department for the software engineering I still wanted to tinker with electronics. And as I thought about doing some amateur radio (HAM radio) for quite a while, I went ahead and became a member of the H24 regional district of the DARC, the German Amateur Radio Club.
Almost immediately I started learning for my novice license, class E, but due to Corona I couldn’t do my exam. Yet finally last week I got that done and got my world wide unique callsign DO1MRV.
Also today I got my checkout on our club station DL0VW by Peter DG5ACX.
HAM Radio License Class E passed