June is the most popular flying month, simply because of the length of the days. On June 10th, I received early in the morning a call from my French friend Maurice with a very generous offering to join him for a flight in his helicopter over Luxembourg. Great weather, great idea and we planned to…

I am planning a dutch weekend for the Luxembourg pilots, here are the details. It will bring a whole Luxembourg fleet to the Netherlands in July. Air traffic control will be surprised. Here are the details FLY OUT – GOING DUTCH – JULY 7TH-9TH 2015 – DETAILS  and SCHEDULE On Friday morning July 10th, you’ll…

A Nephew Of Me, Franky Coene, Started Recently Taking Flying Lessons In Kortrijk. I Invited Him To Join Me Last Sunday To Fly To The Island Of Norderney, Which I Planned To Discover During A One Day Flight. He And His Son Are Also Aviation Enthusiasts Franky has been travelling from Oostende to Genk Zwartberg…

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…