Advance notice - Europe Fly-in - Aussies and Yankees welcome

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Advance notice - Europe Fly-in - Aussies and Yankees welcome

Post by Antoine »

Hello all

I wanted to revive the discussion which Aart started about a fly-in.
It could be Palma, or whatever we agree upon.

I propose we discuss and define:
- whether its a "boys-only" outing or do we bring our better halves along (that obviously changes many things)
- dates and duration - for example, do we make it just a week end or a kind of rally from northern to southern Europe with nice stopovers?

It would be a great pleasure to have America-, Australia-, Asia- based pilots join this. I'm sure we, the locals, can arrange pickup/return to some major hub to make flying-in easy.
And maybe you could couple it with a nice holiday with your favorite lady or family? :D

Considering most of us have no de-icing, I would recommend we schedule it as as late as possible in the spring and plan for at least one day of slack in the timetable, especially if we have non-European participants wanting to get on an airliner to home.

So - gentlemen to your keyboards, I'm all excited about this :D
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Re: Advance notice - Europe Fly-in - Aussies and Yankees wel

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I will have to take a commercial flight but I am in if the dates work for me.
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Re: Advance notice - Europe Fly-in - Aussies and Yankees wel

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Hello Antoine

Count me and my wife in. We would like to do this as a part of a European Vacation. Happy to fit in with you, just need plenty of advanced notice re dates.

Obviously will not be able to fly my DA40 over.

Also very excited.

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Robin wrote:Hello Antoine

Count me and my wife in. We would like to do this as a part of a European Vacation. Happy to fit in with you, just need plenty of advanced notice re dates.

Obviously will not be able to fly my DA40 over.

Also very excited.

Robin

Robin...get some ferry tanks! It will be the trip of a lifetime.
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Re: Advance notice - Europe Fly-in - Aussies and Yankees wel

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Get some ferry tanks and hire Kai to fly it up.
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Re: Advance notice - Europe Fly-in - Aussies and Yankees wel

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Doesn't Kai come with his own ferry tanks?
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If I fly with Kai I will have to turn the autopilot off...his plane does not have one.

I would love to do a trip like that one day...

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Re: Advance notice - Europe Fly-in - Aussies and Yankees wel

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Chris wrote:Doesn't Kai come with his own ferry tanks?
It's a good time to ask me. You get me with ferry tanks and a lot of time to prepare the trip...

...won't be flying my own Diamond for a while if I really go on trying to import my plane here to Thailand. They have now told me that some part of the legislation has changed and it will now take up to 6 months to get it registered once it was de-registered in the US. After a few weeks of customs-"problems" I am now re-considering my options

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Re: Advance notice - Europe Fly-in - Aussies and Yankees wel

Post by Aart »

Great!
Although it would deprive me from flying to a nice place, I guess Palma is a great destination. Certainly good for partners. An advantage would also be that I can arrange the local logistics. The only disadvantage I can think of is that Mallorca always involves a 100 NM stretch over the sea, which some may not like. Usually always a ship in sight though.. June would be the best month. Not yet too hot here, and often great visibility.
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Re: Advance notice - Europe Fly-in - Aussies and Yankees wel

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Awesome response!

Can we say it is June? I agree with Aart that is the most favorable time for flying in Europe. It is before the July August frenzy and as "warm" as it can get.
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