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EHM-1281 Cyriel:
here is a small summary of the event:

The online flying coordinator did not manage to get of the ground in Bern for various reasons on which we will not elaborate here :). Let's just keep it at that he parked his plane in the lawn at the end of the Rwy.

He went online as ATC at Heathrow Approach and saw the following:

Bruno dissapeared in the famous England channel triangle of doom.

Gergely took off without 14% fuel to be able to get airborne from the short runway. As a result of that he had no fuel left for two of this four engines on approach. He still made it for a beautiful landing but no juice left to taxi. We had to tow him to the gate

Ben informed London CTR of my failure to get airborne even before I got online as Approach. Gossip travels extermely fast in the sky's over europe. As it was a birthday I ignored it but next time Ben will travel a lot of circles over the UK on my watch...

Murray could not make up his mind on which STAR to fly and changed twice in mid flight. Although I have no proof of it I strongly suspect him of landing upside down or sideways.

Desmond was the last to arrive and made a perfect landing. These are the pilots we are looking for! I think next time Desmond has to go first to set an example for us all.

There were many others who joined in for this fly in. A lot of people made it for the first leg from Zurich to Bern. quite a few others took of for the second leg from Bern to London but sadly could not finish.

All in all this was a great event!! Keep it up Euroharmony for the next year and we will be the number 1 VA in the world! Thank you all for a great evening!!

And I forgot the mention that we still need to get a repair crew to Bern to pick up this 738 parked there in the middle of the fields.

EHM-1001 Robert:
Hi Cyriel,

unfortunately I could not come, due to a really long last day of week, spent in the office until 8pm. When I got home, I was sure, almost everybody already landed at Bern. Next to it, on thursday evening my spare HDD went sleep and forgot everything that was stored on it. So I lost all my MP3 musics, movies, spare programs, EHM backups...and who knows what else. These all made me very sad, and I felt I am not in a good mood to join the fly-in...

Afterall, I am ready to fly again, so I will prepare a rescue crew with spareparts, and fly to Bern ASAP. I hope I can join the team for the next event...

Should not we start a SAR helicopter to the Channel for picking up The Chief ? ;D

Bye for all.

EHM-1343 Jonathan:
I was one of the unlucky ones who got didn't get off the ground at bern, I was half way through startup clearence procedure , and my FS crashed lol, sorry all, and i was wondering what ehm 1281 was doing in  a field hehe

EHM-1365 Benjamin:
It looked like Murray ended up in the same field on landing to me :%

It was a lot of fun, lets hope this year brings a lot more fly-ins!


--- Quote ---...next time Ben will travel a lot of circles over the UK on my watch
--- End quote ---

Woops ;)

PS. Hard luck Robert, I hate when things like that happen (who doesn't...), hope you get yourself back on track.

EHM-1617 Iain:
Sorry I could not be there for the 2nd leg, I hear you guys had a great time.

I was second last out of LSZH cos my annoying brother was on the PC (must get my own) and last into Bern.

I had a missed approach into Bern cos I'm about a mile from the threshold at a 30 degree angle from the centerline, and he syas EHM1617 clrd to land. I'm thinking what? I was expecting the ILS and instead he gave me a really short visual. I was still doing 140KIAS cos I thought it was the initial approach. There was no indication that he wanted me to nail a right turn and slap her down. I was at 2500ft and a hill was looming up in front of me, so I make a quick climb to 4500ft and report that I am avoiding terrain.

Then he gives the the full ILS and I am ready for it this time. I make a really soft landing and the imaginary passengers applaud. Last in. I got about 1/4 of the way to EGLL after a nice short-field 737-800 tkof, before I ran out of time.

A great fly-in! I will definitely attend more.

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