Private Pilot Peter
Fully booked in less than 48 hours. Following overwhelming interest from pilots across Europe and Turkey, all available places for the Luxembourg to Georgia Expedition 2026 have now been provisionally allocated. Confirmed crews are invited to complete their registration files within the next seven days, while additional applicants have been placed on a waiting list pending any vacancies.
Great adventures are best shared. The Georgia 2026 Expedition welcomes not only aircraft owners and crews, but also individual pilots looking for a seat and spouses, partners, friends and supporters travelling independently to Georgia. Discover how you can be part of the adventure—whether in the cockpit or on the ground in Kakheti
The registration platform for the Private Pilot Expedition Georgia 2026 is now live. Discover how we are coordinating up to 26 aircraft, crossing 10 countries and flying more than 4,000 nautical miles from Luxembourg to Georgia — and how you can join the adventure.
Preparing our 25-aircraft expedition to Georgia, the Turkish CAA asked a perfectly reasonable question: why does a European ULM’s airworthiness certificate have no expiry date? The answer reveals something most pilots — let alone foreign authorities — have never had to think about: Europe runs two entirely separate aviation regulatory systems in parallel. Here’s what that means in practice, and what a stack of French DGAC documents actually says.
Before flying across Turkey, the Black Sea and into Georgia, I’m sticking with a setup I trust. My ADL190 with Iridium may not be the fastest — but it works everywhere, every time. And that matters more than bandwidth (for the moment)
Preparing a 30-aircraft flight to Georgia, I worked with SkyDemon to fix missing airspace details. A small intervention that turned into a structural improvement for every pilot flying there.
Modern flight tracking platforms make almost every aircraft visible online. But who decides whether a private flight becomes public information? A European pilot perspective on Flightradar24, FlightAware and ADS-B Exchange — and why aircraft owners should have the final say. The story of the
Invisible Pilot
Ahead of the Luxembourg–Georgia expedition, preparation goes beyond route planning. Moving from a Lycoming-powered Mooney to a modern Rotax-equipped Blackwing, I am deepening my technical understanding through maintenance involvement, Rotax training in Biscarrosse, and mountain flying preparation with Robert Sentef — all part of getting both pilot and aircraft ready for the journey.
Preparations have begun for the Luxembourg–Georgia Private Pilot Expedition 2026, a two-week pilot-to-pilot aviation journey departing Luxembourg on 29 August 2026. Pre-registration is now open for crews interested in joining this non-commercial long-distance flying adventure across Europe towards Georgia.
A decade after a memorable private aviation rally first connected Luxembourg and Georgia, we are preparing to fly back. What began in 2015 as a personal mission to open the skies between our countries grew into the historic 2016 “Memorial Hans Gutmann” expedition—12 aircraft and 45 aviators crossing Europe to the Caucasus. Today, Georgia thrives as a modern, aviation-friendly destination. In 2026, under the patronage of the Honorary Consulate of Georgia in Luxembourg, we set out once again on a 4,000 NM journey to celebrate shared values, deepen cultural ties, and experience one of Europe’s most beautiful regions by air.