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My fellow travellers Mike Kornev and Artem Kirillow enjoyed the first flight with Vanilla Sky of our exploration tour. They arrived one day earlier than Jean Birgen and myself They’ve prepared their report hereunder. **** **** **** **** **** We were getting ready for some mountain flying. I decided long ago to visit the Mestia…
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It all started with an article last year in the AOPA magazin about the Vanilla Sky operations north of Tblisi (Natakhtari airfield) in Georgia. ( not US Georgia, but European Georgia landlocked in between the Kaspian and Black seas together with Armenia and Azerbeijan.) According to this article, the.Vanilla Sky team over there has some…
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This week, I made a cosy evening flight with my friend Yves Ewen. In summer, we have often calm weather in the evening hours. For Yves, it was his first flight in a small plane, which made this weather a perfect setting. As we intended to stay within the borders of Luxembourg, there was no…
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My wife and son are on vacation, whilst I continue to work in Luxembourg. The weekend of July 17th is arriving. Knowing myself, if I’ll stay in Luxembourg I will continue working most of the weekend. So, reason enough to fly to a place which I only briefly visited once earlier this year: the Dutch…
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Next weekend, I’m heading to the Champagne region with my family. We are teaming up with a dozen pilots coming from Luxembourg (Aéro-Sport). Here’s the itenary we’ve prepared. Details see a previous blog posting hereunder
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Flying in western USA is one of the best experiences a private pilot can enjoy. Every day, ceiling and visibility are simply great and one can enjoy the most beautiful views this planet offers. I was lucky to fly back in 2005, 2007 and 2008 in the Western US – long time before I opened…
Read More >>The new season should have started well, but it hasn’t. First there’s was the fly out to Texel with Aéro-Sport I was supposed to attend with my family, but due to bad weather, I had to cancel our weekend. Last weekend, we planned to fly for three days to Koksijde at the Belgian coast and…
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The end of the mountain soaring training course arrived. I roughly flew some 25 hours in six flying days, my mountain flying technique was sharpened a lot, I enjoyed the most beautiful sights of this part of the Alps a person can dream of and I had a very good time ! Regis Kuntz gave…
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The airfield of Fayence-Tourrettes (LFMF) benefits of more than 300 flying days a year, which is quite exceptional. If you like to rent a sailplane (glider) for the day, you need to make sure that you express your intentions to the chiefpilot, Regis Kunz, at 9am. He puts all demands together and distributes the planes.…
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The last two days, I’ve been flying another 2 mountain flights with a different instructor, being Jean Magne. First, We struggled very hard to get out of the local Fayence area (again). Once passed the Lachens mountain and the barre de Séranon, everything went smoothly. We have been performing a 257 km flight in nearly…
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