Hi all.
Yesterday I returned from a 6 day flying trip in Europe. Being only a low hour (~130 at the time of setting off) PPL and being based up in Nottingham and having never taken a plane over water before, this was a whole new number of 'firsts' for me - first time flying over water, first channel crossing, first flight in Europe, first experience of mountain flying (in the Pyrenees) and also my longest flight yet of 3hrs 20minutes... all hand flown.
I did this trip with another PPL and with James Lee of Buddy's Aviation and racked up 11 hours and 20 minutes flying in the 4 days that we flew. The original plan was to head over to Slovenia, but with poor weather forecast over the weekend we replanned day one at the cafe in Stapleford before setting off.
In the end, we did
Stapleford -> Calais
Calais -> Rochefort
Rochefort -> Carcassonne
Carcassonne -> Andorra (La Seu)
Andorra -> Annecy
Annecy -> Freiburg
Freiburg -> Salzburg
Salzburg -> Muehldorf
Muehldorf -> Bielefeld
Bielefeld -> Midden-Zeeland
Midden-Zeeland -> Stapleford
All in a Warrior.
The legs I flew were...
(notable go-around due to some nice fellow cutting us up on short final)
(including touch and go at Andorra)
With the total route looking something like...
I'll do a leg-by-leg writeup at some point and have videos of most legs, but if there's anything that anyone wants to know about the trip or anything then let me know and I'll answer it or stick it up in the write ups
Cheers,
Nick
Yesterday I returned from a 6 day flying trip in Europe. Being only a low hour (~130 at the time of setting off) PPL and being based up in Nottingham and having never taken a plane over water before, this was a whole new number of 'firsts' for me - first time flying over water, first channel crossing, first flight in Europe, first experience of mountain flying (in the Pyrenees) and also my longest flight yet of 3hrs 20minutes... all hand flown.
I did this trip with another PPL and with James Lee of Buddy's Aviation and racked up 11 hours and 20 minutes flying in the 4 days that we flew. The original plan was to head over to Slovenia, but with poor weather forecast over the weekend we replanned day one at the cafe in Stapleford before setting off.
In the end, we did
Stapleford -> Calais
Calais -> Rochefort
Rochefort -> Carcassonne
Carcassonne -> Andorra (La Seu)
Andorra -> Annecy
Annecy -> Freiburg
Freiburg -> Salzburg
Salzburg -> Muehldorf
Muehldorf -> Bielefeld
Bielefeld -> Midden-Zeeland
Midden-Zeeland -> Stapleford
All in a Warrior.
The legs I flew were...
(notable go-around due to some nice fellow cutting us up on short final)
(including touch and go at Andorra)
With the total route looking something like...
I'll do a leg-by-leg writeup at some point and have videos of most legs, but if there's anything that anyone wants to know about the trip or anything then let me know and I'll answer it or stick it up in the write ups
Cheers,
Nick
Last edited by Nick T on Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:45 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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