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Sail Amsterdam 2015

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EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
In case you are wondering what I've been doing during my holidays: I have - amongst a lot of other things - visited Sail Amsterdam.
Quite an experience, I must say! So I thought I'd share a couple of pics here :)

DetailsPre-Sail (the day before Sail-In); Tall Ships are arriving at IJmuiden harbour
Took me about 45 minutes to get there (I was early); took me about an hour and a half to travel the last 5 km to my home when I wanted to leave. Pffff... traffic congestion on water AND raod!

DetailsHarbour Patrol was working overtime!

DetailsBusy along the shores of the entire 18 kilometres of Noordzeekanaal

DetailsI was lucky enough to have a flight lesson scheduled for the day of the Sail-In, AND Ait Traffic Control NL had devised up a way to be able to allow VFR traffic ove the center of Amsterdam and/or IJmuiden (in between are approach paths for 18R and 18C, but 18R is out for maintenance at the moment). So I did all the flight preparation needed to go fly the "RED route Sail Area Amsterdam" (including filing a flightplan for it), and got my instructor to go along as an extra set of eyes. Off we went, navigating to the entry point SELIN - a temporary waypoint, exclusively for Sail-In, and Sail-Out.

DetailsBeautiful sight, such a busy canal full of boats. No time for me to take "real" pictures, though, because it was quite busy in the skies over Amsterdam.

DetailsThe one with the green block: that's me. The other 15 symbols are 3 helicopters, and 12 other GA planes (including 2 banner tows). Really awesomely busy! It looked kind of like formation flying - you could see the expression on the faces of people in the planes next to you at some times. That's how close we got, especially the first lap. So I did a second one, after creating a little more separation, so that I could actually enjoy the view too  ;)


Not many people can say that they flew over Sail Amsterdam, and I bet I am the only one ever to fly over Sail Amsterdam during a flying lesson  ;D ;D ;D

EHM-2758 Peter:

--- Quote ---Not many people can say that they flew over Sail Amsterdam
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I certainly agree with you, Eric-Jan. Though I witnessed the previous one from a normal point of view, I can imagine how amazing this must have been. Great shots!

Peter

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