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A gastronomical adventure: a New VFR tour throughout France
EHM-2758 Peter:
"Give Taste to France" ... that's what the four of us (Trevor, David, Gian and me) just did last evening while starting this tour flying from a small airfield in the south-east of Paris, called Chelles Le Pin, to our first destination Nantes. But we certainly did more than that: I'm convinced that we gave something else to the guy that was controlling Le Bourget approach: a bad headache! Le Pin actually is situated just outside his airspace, Class A airspace that is. Instead of setting course east to avoid that zone (I initially thought there was a D en E zone too), we flew straight in. Ooooops... Four small planes on a VFR tour were "kindly" requested to leave that airspace. Someone of us was so scared off that he almost flew into Germany, before setting course westbound.
What did we learn from this: stay out of Class A airspace, keep smiling all the way and don't put into practice the proverb: "When in France, do as the French do" (just a free interpretation).
Not bothered by any ATC on our way, we safely landed in Nantes.
The Doodle-link for next weeks flight from Nantes to Rouen: http://doodle.com/vpqvutg42ipm9m6b
and for those who want to use some extra information (Plan G-file; flightplans for FSX, FS9 and Xplane; Charts of Rouen): https://www.dropbox.com/s/bq7zjlczpka4gha/leg02%20LFRS-LFOP.rar?dl=0
Meet you all on Mumble!
Peter
p.s. if you have any problems downloading the files from Dropbox, just send me a personal mail and I'll send it to you.
EHM-2758 Peter:
According to the four preferences in the Doodle poll for the second leg of the "Give taste to France" tour, the flight from Nantes to Rouen will take place at Friday the 19th of December at 20:00 H Zulutime.
Meet you all on Mumble!
Peter
EHM-1882 Gian:
That is good news Peter! I thought I had missed the second leg supposed (in my mind) to be flown yesterday evening!
So, happy to see you all on Mumble on Friday! ;)
Gian
EHM-1882
EHM-1882 Gian:
Hello Guys,
I may be late this evening, but will try to make it anyway, accelerating 4X if necessary to catch up ;)
Gian
EHM-2758 Peter:
It was a rainy evening, while we (David, Gian and me) flew from Nantes to Rouen. Nevertheless we enjoyed our tour and encountered some friendly assistance of Paris_CTR for a change, who guided us in safely at Rouen airport.
Because of the Christmas holidays I'll put a Doodle-link for the next flight on this forum in the first week of the new year.
In the meantime: a Merry Christmas and lots of flights in blue sky in 2015.
Meet you all on Mumble!
Peter
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