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.
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Monday morning
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 the [...]
Night before Monday
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 single [...]
Shoreham transair closed
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 return [...]
Post checkout EGHH-LFRC
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 club [...]
Checkout
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.
The EuroTrip
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 news, [...]
flightComputer Update
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 it’s [...]
Wondering around AeroExpo 2011
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 do [...]
IPv6 since
Since I blogged about test IPv6 website I’ve actually subscribed to the RSS feed of validated sites. It does couple of things …
