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…

Round trip distance from Luxembourg to Tbilisi and back ~4000 NM

The rally shows the clear advantages that the schengen agreements has brought to aviation. People sometimes take it for granted. Travelling outside of the “schengen area” was like returning in time as we have been losing many hours with customs. The red tape we encountered outside of the schengen area was quite disturbing. Schengen is…

A Multifunctional International Organization Team “The Magnificient Seven” Has Been Put Together To Prepare And Coordinate The MEMORIAL HANS GUTMANN TOURIST RALLY FLIGHT GEORGIA 2016 1. Jean Birgen, President 2016 Rally And FAI-GAC Adviser 2. Peter Sodermans, Secretary General 2016 Rally 3. Mike Kornev, Flight Planning And Navigation 4. Artem Kirillov, Project Manager 5. Turgut…

For the 5th time in a row, a “memorial hans gutmann tourist rally flight georgia 2016” was organized in the adventurous spirit of late austrian aviator hans gutmann. This year’s lustrum rally brought us to a very special and brand new general aviation destination, the beautiful country of georgia in the european caucasus The preparation…

Dear aviation enthusiasts, dear pilots, dear friends President Jean Birgen and Secretary general Peter Sodermans hereby invite you for the “ Photo Session “ of the official departure of the Memorial Hans Gutmann long range Tourist rally to Georgia this Tuesday evening August 2 at 06.30 p.m. at the Aéro–Sport clubhouse at the Luxembourg airport…