After 3 days of waiting we had an engineer come over from Bournemouth to fix the plane. Even when there is Diamond Industries HQ 100km away, the maintenance company wasted 3 days of our life and didn’t get us anywhere. The engineer started work minutes after arrival 10am . First he took off the...
Read more →For this flight I’m the PIC, after embarkation, started pre start check list. I’ve decided that maybe I will ask ATC for engine start before starting it. Avionics on, Tower set and for some reason I’ve managed to request a flight to Bautzen instead of engine start , got “taxi Delta” … me “request...
Read more →After parking and disembarking the aircraft a fuel truck arrived. Oh, we didn’t plan fuel requirement yet, fortunately, the driver didn’t had card terminal what gave me a few minutes to make an estimate plus reserve and it looked like we need 13 US gallons. Unfortunately his truck works in litters. Quick dash at...
Read more →This was it. We entered the aircraft, settle down. Proper passenger briefing and some captains brief. Ivan decided he will handle flying and radios, I was to help with navigation and radio pre selection.
Read more →Early start on monday, I did Center of Gravity calculations , Ivan filed General Aviation reports to Police, twice. Onece to Devon… Mistake and proper one to Dorset. We agreed on all checkpoints, took radio frequencies down on single list. Check A done by me, started putting stuff on the aircraft, boarded and started...
Read more →Well, actually we started seriously planning the route to EDFH before going to Shoreham. Sky deamon, charts, Air Navigation Pro, all employed to get us the least annonying routing. Decided on spending most of the flight routing along French side, not touching the scary Belgian airspace, oh my, chart for it doesn’t have a...
Read more →On Sunday we had a trip from Bournemouth to Shoreham to buy French charts, great flight with my cousines boys (their first flight on light aircraft). Unfortunately Transair was closed, however when we were low down we noticed Dean landing with his family. After not finding any food at the airport we decided to...
Read more →We had a nice, almost uneventful flight from EGHH via KATHY and GARMI to LFRC. Flying with Garmin G1000 cockpit is a whole new experience comparing to regular “steam” gauges. Ivan flown the outbound leg and he landed on deserted LFRC about 4pm local, the only a/c on the ground was PA28 from flying...
Read more →On my way to EGHH for checkout flight in DA-40TDI as well as channel crossing flight to France to get used to seeing only water under my wings. If WX permits we will also take WI, a C172 to Shoreham later on.
Read more →After months of planning and conversations we have a go… Soon There was a few wonky points, like oh which aircraft to take, countless adverts skimmed, some tough decisions. After all, we decided that we are going with G-SLYN. Slightly underpowered diesel a/c which we know pretty well. However last Sunday we had bad...
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