Flights tales
Hello fellow aviators, I wanted to share an unexpected discovery a fellow aviator made recently while inspecting our shared hangar. To my surprise, they found a bird nest tucked inside the cowling of my Blackwing! This unexpected visitor serves as a great reminder of the importance of thorough pre-flight checks. I’ll be heading to the…
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Together with Poul Strømberg, we go through the basics of the Blackwing 600RG plane, starting with the master switch. The middle position is for the engine run-up. You can use this position to turn the key and start the engine. All the power is now on the backup battery, which is used to start up…
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A New Chapter: My Journey with the Blackwing 600RG Greetings, fellow aviation enthusiasts! It’s been a while since I last updated this blog, but today, I have something truly special to share with you. As a private pilot based in Luxembourg, I’ve had the privilege of flying some incredible aircraft over the years. However, the…
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The winter of 2023-2024 has been very wet and cloudy, making it definitely not ideal to travel to Sweden to pick up my Blackwing. It is number 25, produced by Niklas Anderberg and his team. The new Blackwing factory in Landskrona, Sweden, has just opened its doors, and I can’t wait any longer to move…
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This Friday, We are getting formally married. Kika and I know each other from the mid-’90s, we’re formally engaged since 1999 and our son was born back in 2009. We however never formally married. The Covid-19 crisis with its confinement brought us closer to each other and so we are now marrying this Friday, May…
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Annual check flight On March 14th, 2020 I conducted my most recent flight in a Cessna 182. I flew from Luxembourg to Trier airfield with Bernard Frechen for my annual check flight. The weather was so-so, but flyable. I did some 5 touches and go’s at Trier airfield. The check flight went seamless. Not bad…
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Tourism The next morning, we discover the Parma area. Not many tourists around for mid -August. This region is so beautiful and full of historic buildings. Wonderfull! We enjoy it very much. Mimi brings us to “La Rocca”, that seems to be the best store to get ham and cheese from Parma. Mimi Vinckenbosch moved…
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Preparing to take off We are in Cannes right now, preparing to take off for Parma this morning. According to Aeroweather, skies are clear, but on the satellite picture, it tells me something different. Maybe a thin cloud layer in the Bay of Genua. Anyway, we’re going for it. It is the first time I’ll…
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Changing plans There’s a lot of rain on its way to Luxembourg on this long August 15 weekend. I planned to go to a pilot’s fly-in in Kalinigrad initially and meet there with a Polish pilot, and attend an AOPA supported event, but as I fly VFR, seems not to be a good idea to…
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