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"Wings Over Holland" Groupflight
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
Ow, I was about to get in my car and drive to EHLE :P
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I'll see if I am able to catch up with my PPL theory before 1900Z, otherwise I might have to cancel on this one (with pain in my heart, mind you!).
I have the last class session of "Aircraft General Knowledge / Principles of Flight" tomorrow before my exam, and I still have some 150 pages to work through. Not too difficult, but a lot.
So let's see how far I get. Alternative could be for me to do EHLE-DCT-EHTX, if I am only a little later; we'll see.
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EHM-2589 David:
Or could be this one Details but hope to be there 18:55 zulu with all of you and E-J. of course dct EHTX is better than nothing ;) bon courage! I mean for the 150 pages... :o
EHM-2758 Peter:
After having finished the "Dakar Rally" last week and by lack of a new event, we started a "Wings over... (native country)"-tour last evening. David, Gian and I started a sightseeing vfr trip over a part of Holland, which I consider one of the more beautiful ones. At 19:15 houres Zulutime two Cessna 172 and the Piper PA28R-200 Arrow II of David left Lelystad Airport (EHLE) and cruised at approximately 1200ft right into a big thunderstorm with gusting winds till 26kts. In trying to avoid this dreadful weather, we turned north towards the islands sooner than planned and like the screenshots show, we flew into a bright clear sky and had a great view on the "Waddeneilanden" At approximately 21:00 houres we arrived safely on the grass landingstrip of Texel Airport (EHTX). Unfortunately David and Gian hadn't installed the magnificent scenery addon of the Netherlands, provided by NL2000, and how they experienced the landscape, I really don't know, but if they watch the screenshots below, they might consider to install it still.
Hopefully we'll have a next "Wings over...." next week. ;) In the meantime everyone who wants to join these flights, don't hesitate and join us... it's a lot of fun!
Meet you on Mumble!
Peter
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
By the time I got through (most of) the text I had to read, I was so tired that I had only had a look on Webeye to see how many of you were actually flying. Next time I'll try to fly along again.
I saw Gian took the risky route over Oldebroek Firing Range ;) and you guys were approaching Drachten airport at that time. From Peter's post I read that you headed North soon after that.
Did you contact Amsterdam Radar?
I bet you had a great flight, especially with the NL-2000 scenery (I have the same; takes quite a while to get it installed, though).
OK, I'm off to Hilversum now. See yáll in virtual skies :)
EHM-2758 Peter:
As we just arrived at holdingpoint A rw23 of Lelystad Amsterdam Radar got online again after an absence of several minutes. Just in time I thought! However, after having changed to frequency 125.75, and after having made first contact, ATC stated that we were in uncontrolled airspace. He did provide us with some weather information, but that's it!
I hope to see you next week again, E-J and hopefully Gian or David is providing us with a nice route!
Meet you on Mumble!
Peter
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