Dear fellow pilot, We got the sad news that there are advanced plans to close the Helsinki-Malmi airport (EFHF), which is a catastrophy for general aviation in Finland and Europe. Hereunder is a petition which needs to be sent to the Finnish members of parliament. It aims to support our initiative to keep the airport…

I upgraded to the gold version of the app called Flightradar 24. They call themselves the facebook of aviation 🙂 FR24 uses the ADS-B out (called extended squitter) of commercial airplanes. Here one FR24 station receiving the signal is enought to track an airplane as it constantly sends its GPS location, speed, altitude, etc… The…

We finally agreed that i handed over our cessna 172 to guido peterzelka and his wife as he needs to be back in luxembourg on tuesday morning at latest. We have some spare tickets left for a regulair airline flight to Luxembourg, so the decision is taken that Guido and his family fly the Cessna…

It is no option that guido peterzelka continues his flight to luxembourg in his beech bonanza. If the engines heats up again without the oil pump seal issue being properly adressed, he could eventually in the worst case get fire on board as oil can ignite because of the heat. He made several calls with…

We’ve landed yesterday in fayence coming from sabadell and our friends travelling with us on this journey through france and spain, the peterzelka family, planned to fly this afternoon from fayence to leverkusento celebrate eastern with their family.. However whilst preparing to take off with their plane, something happened. Whilst they were lining up, smoke…

Our next stop is fayence in the var nearby cannes. I don’t dare to fly on a direct course over the sea. We have swimming vests, but no dinghy’s in case the motot of our plane stops working. Of course, the plane does not know it is flying over the sea, but i’m not taking…

Never tried this before, but it proves to be a convenient way to explore the city of barcelona…and different from a cessna We stayed in the Catalonia Ramblas hotel, which proved to be an excellent choice. Perfect location in the center of Barcelona and excellent beds. We strolled the whole day through the town Our…

We just safely landed in sabadell nearby barcelona and are now enjoying a beer on a sunny terrace with a pilot friend of guido peterzelka, named jördi osterloh.

This Wednesday morning, the weather looks good and I have prepared a flight all over Spain from the Atlantic shores to the Meditarrean nearby Barcelona, where we schedule to land at the Sabadell airfield. We’ve booked a hotel at the city center of Barcelona for 2 nights. On the left sight, we’ll have the Pyrenees…

This tuesday is another non flying day with only tourist activities in san sebastian. The climate here is a rather humid one. The place is known to be a european food capital and hosts some of the best restaurants one can find. We are truly tapas lovers howver and always keen on trying the piementos…