Day and Weekend Trips – Discovering Eagle

Helgoland reopens after Corona!

Florian — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:23:19 +0000

As you all know, travailing in times of Corona virus is heavily restricted. So for general aviation as well. In times it went even as far as to close entire airfields! But at least in Germany thing started to open up again and travailing and flying becomes more and more possible. That said, Helgoland was […]

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Weekend in Auschwitz

Florian — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:01:13 +0000

Things you need to see There are things you have to see at least once in your life. The Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland is one of these! But why? I assume by now it is well-known that the Nazis did horrible mass murder on the Jews and other minorities. And since it has happened […]

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Flying Wrench Bender beats his Dad

Florian — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:37:56 +0000

Pilots tend to think, that mechanics can’t fly. Last week, my brother and helping hand Nico proved the opposite. In his Ventus cxM D-KNGS he fly over a thousand (yes, 1.000) kilometers from Celle to the Mecklenburg Lake District and on to Poland. After a little more than 10 hours of continuous soaring, he returned […]

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Flyin Diepholz 2019

Florian — Wed, 15 May 2019 11:59:43 +0000

The Plan… Last weekend my flying club had planned a day trip to the Diepholz Airbase Flyin 2019. Unfortunately the day didn’t start well as we met at our home field Celle-Arloh in pouring rain. So, somebody brewed coffee and we sad in the clubhouse to wait for a clearing in the weather. Let’s go! […]

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Visiting German Army Airbase Celle-Wietzenbruch

Florian — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:49:57 +0000

Organized by members of the “Flugsportvereinigung Celle“, we got chance to visit the control tower at the nearby Airbase of the German Army in Celle-Wietzenbruch (ETHC) last Wednesday. The timing could not have been more perfect since the Dutch Army was in midst an air assault training phase and we got to watch several paratroopers […]

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Snow Flight 01/28/17

Florian — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:41:00 +0000

Hey folks, It’s been a while since the last activity in the blog. But as I figured out how to use my GOPRO’s I took chance of the latest snow fall here in northern Germany to take 90B up for a flight over that winter wonder land. Because it will be my fist flight on […]

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Meet an other Luscombe at Uetersen/Heist

Florian — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:38:47 +0000

On April 19th 2015 I flew 90B to Uetersen/Heist (EDHE) near the mouth of the river Elbe to meet Juergen Pfeifer, one of only two other Luscombe owners in Germany. My copilot this day was my Mom and co-owner. The way up was quite uneventful. After departing Celle to the north I tried to establish […]

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