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...
Read more →I’ve updated the flight computer to version 1.0.2. It irons out issues with incorrect ground speed reported. If you have not seen version 1 before it also features dynamically updating fields, no more clicking “calculate” to get the numbers. I can’t remember if I’ve released before version with working distance to time converter, well...
Read more →So last Friday I’ve decided we are going to AeroExpo 2011 in Sywell ( some village in a middle of England ) . It was a bit smaller than 2010 in Wycombe and was missing Cessna. However Beechcraft was still there with their amazing aeroplanes, so was Diamond, as well as Piper ( why...
Read more →For long I wanted to do a coast to coast in USA or around Europe flying my self and enjoy the aviation. Since I’ve finished my PPL, another pilot Ivan Horsky and I were talking about doing the Euro Trip. It went through some highs ( like Ivan almost scored a sponsorship for the...
Read more →I’ve spent last Sunday travelling back to Bournemouth. Met my former PPL instructor Dean who is now working with BFC and we went back in the good old G-SLYN for BFC checkout and a refresher for me, as I haven’t flown since January. I really missed flying and it was a joy to do...
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