Summary 2023 – Airfields Visited
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Norfolk/Suffolk Flying Adventure – Sept 2023
Dad and lad trip 2023 – revisting the Norfolk broads and discovering Beccles. Two bikes in the back of G-PTSI with my newly electrified Brompton.
Route
Popham – Fowlmere – Cromer – Beccles – Little Shelford – Top Farm – Popham
About 350 Nm 3 hrs
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French Beach Adventure La Baule-Escoublac – September 2023
With high pressure and good weather, it seemed like a good idea to catch a few more days of sun before the long winter. La Baule airfield is just a 7 min cycle ride to “the most beautiful beach in Europe” an amazing beach and lots of sea front easily rentable now school holidays are over.
As I was traveling alone French customs at Rennes released me without interview both ways, a first for me. With an OAT reading of 35°C at the hold whilst waiting for military jets to do their thing, the manifold temperature was above 51 C for a while.
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Austrian Adventure – August 2023
Flew to the Rotax 2023 Flyin at Wels Austria and made then extended into the Alps. A nine day trip about 1500 nautical miles and 13 hrs of flying. With folding Brompton bike, visited lots of lakes and beaches in great weather.
Learnt about SVFR departure from a French Class D airport. (600′ and 5km vis).
Rented a hangar when heavy hail and gusting 50 knots was forecast.
Did some single pilot mountain flying. See video of Zell am Zee.
Landed at one of the the most picturesque airfields in the world.
The route
Popham – Albert (Customs) – Wels – Zell am Zee – Konstanz – Speyer – Le Touquet (Customs) – Popham
Lots of great information and contacts made at the Rotax Flyin 2023, over 2 days with free beer . Thanks to Bose for that part.
Wels – Austria
Zell Am Zee – Austria
Another Aircraft inbound to Zell am Zee nice video
Konstanz – Germany
Speyer – Germany
Some bad weather encountered in Speyer, Germany. I had to negotiate some hangar space in a hangar whose rate card starts at 6.5 tons !
Albert – France
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French Chateaux Adventure Loire -July 2023
I was invited for lunch in Jersey, but carried on south to Dinard (customs) and back to Amboise for a few days in the Loire since the weather was looking very nice 🙂 With my Brompton folding bike did some cycling along the river cycle paths.
Back via Le Mans for customs – good service. Six officers just for me !!
About 600 nm and 5.5 hrs.
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Scandinavian Adventure – June 2023
June 2023 9 days 6 planes (Three Sling TSi’s a PA28-161 two Pipistrels) 12 people over 24 hrs of flying more than 2500 nm. (FTWTWIG 20023 – Fly To Where The Weather Is Good)
The Route
With high pressure over Scandanavia we decided a day or two before departure that the trip would be to Scandanavia.
Route: Popham – North Weald – Calais – Soest- Itzehoe-Höganas- Kjeller – Hamar – Ålesund – Stavanger – Varde – Borkum – Midden Zealand – Stow Maries – Popham.
Actual track log from SkyDemon – Zoomable map
An amazing trip with huge logistics thanks to Hitesh and Dean.
A collection of some of the photographs and videos made by the team.
Overall trip summary video by Ashok –
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Borkum Departure (Private link) https://youtu.be/7GuxKpCIFD8
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Bergerac – April 2023
Hitesh organised an April family trip as a warm-up for the June trip.
The weather had been terrible for weeks and it was not clear where we were going to go until the last minute. Head for the best weather was the plan. Original idea was to pick up Hitesh and Caroline at Top Farm but was too waterlogged. So I flew to North Weald to pick them up.
The Route
1080 nm 9.0 hrs flying.
Popham – NorthWeald – Le Mans – Bergerac
Bergerac – Amboise Dierre – Le Touquet – North Weald – Popham
Interactive map zoom in :-
Performance
Power set to 75% in cruise. Fuel burn 242 litres = average of 26.9 litres/hr.
23.3 imperial MPG
Logis Hôtel & Restaurant Ludik, Bergerac
Midden Zeeland Holland – Feb 2023
Three planes to Holland for a nice lunch. 2 from Blackbushe and myself and Anne from Popham.
First cross channel trip, the plane has 15 hrs on it. Stay high, gliding distance.
Plane ran perfectly. I am getting used to the autopilot.
Interactive map, zoom in:-
Further Flying Adventures Pre 2023 in G-CLAC
