Local tour operator vanilla sky setup a full tourist program spanning over four days for our 44 person group. It included a visit of visit of georgia’s capital tbilisi, but also a visit of the khazbegi castles. It further included a flight high in the european caucasus whilst a two day tour in svaneti with…

A formal welcome for the european aviators was setup on august 9, in presence of multiple tv and radio crews. Georgian state minister for eu and atlantic integration david bakradze as well as giorgi chogovadze, head of the georgian national tourism administration held warm speeches as georgia feels itself as a part of the european…

After being validated for an overland flight by the georgian central dispatching unit, all our planes left subtropical batumi in the morning and headed for our final destination, being the general aviation airfield of natakthari (ugsa), north of georgian’s capital city tbilisi. This airfield has a hotel and swimming pool at the same facilities. It…

With Sunny Turkish Skies, All Our Pilots Were Able To Take Off Early In The Morning And We Flew To The University Engiz Airport In The Northern Part Of Turkey, Where We Received Also A Warm Welcome. Avgas Was Provided To All Planes Over There Whilst Preparing This Rally, We Learned That Finding AVGAS Once…

After an early morning take off due to an approaching thunderstorm, all pilots headed for Turkey after loosing some time due to customs formalities in southern Hungary. On trips like these, the clear advantage of the Schengen agreement becomes obvious. Some pilots made a fuel stop in Serbia (with AVGAS prices as low as 1€…

Turgut did some homework for your route after entering Turkish airspace. Entry point you should request for our route is ADORU You may have trouble contacting Istanbul Radar frequency at entry point. In that case you can always contact Corlu airport, Frq. 120.37 or 122.10 Corlu VOR frq 115.90 and IST (Istanbul) VOR frq 112.50…

Dear Pilots Although The Initiative Of This Rally Was Driven By Luxembourg, The Official Gathering Point For All Crews To Join Was The Airfield Of Jakabszállás In Hungary (LHJK) With Its Famous Aerohotel (With Swimming Pool And 2 Runways: Grass And Concrete). A Social Event Has Been Setup As Welcome Party, Being An Aviator’s Party…

Our initial plan was to take of on August 3 for the Hans Gutmann memorial long range tourist rally to Georgie, but our Cessna Skylane (the 182) with call sign LX-AIX was still in the maintenance. As the plane was finally ready on August 4th, it started to heavily rain in Luxembourg. With western winds…

We have 15 crews who signed up for the rally. We’ve used a website and blog, as well as a facebook page to interact with our pilots and followers. However, due to the political troubles in turkey in the weeks prior to the departure of the rally, we noticed that 5 crews did not show…