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Re: The conversation Arriving Cherbourg in endless VMC. Requested arrival information and joining instructions. No traffic except me, none. Called right hand downwind. Female controller acknowledges and asks me to report right downwind. Clarified that I am now late right downwind and had just...

Re: The World's 18 Strangest Airports it"s pure envy Sid ! you may as well flaunt it while you've got it I've been into Gibralter and it's interesting to say the least. Sitting in the back you are convinced that you are just about to ditch in the water as it gets so close. Then suddenly a...

Re: Iceland Fly In Hi Iceman (and Lawrence), I think we were talking about the last week of July. I have a trip to Blackbushe coming up in April and it would be great to meet up for coffee if that's possible. mob/text 07595911175. Maybe discuss tentative plans then? I can bring my suit and...

Re: Iceland Fly In Hi Lawrence, Last week of July sounds perfect. BIRD is the reporting point on the FIR boundary at N 61when you leave the Scottish FIR to enter the Reykjavik FIR. Definitely go with the Goretex as it wicks away the sweat! Otherwise we won't come (too) near you afterwards !

Re: Iceland Fly In When to fly the route? When the weather allows! I did a two hour trip to Cranfield yesterday afternoon and picked up about half an inch of ice along the leading edges that shaved about twenty knots off the IAS. Did not really want to know about the stuff I couldn't see on the...

Re: Iceland Fly In Hi Guys, I'm okay for the first, maybe second week of August but also end of July. Will be ploughing the road to Vagar prior to this to check that out as it's only two and a half hours flying from here. The approach there is fabulous - down a fjiord from the west on the...

Re: Barcelona, Palma - Need advice Hi Lawrence, Join up to the Spanish AIP maybe. Clear and concise around Barcelona.

Re: 2 Commanders at Le Touquet We planned a stop for a day or two in the Faroes as well. July or August would be fine with us I think. Now have your mob on my phone Lawrence thanks. I'm 07595911175. Time to start the Iceland Thread. ?

Re: 2 Commanders at Le Touquet Good idea Lawrence. I'm keen although we were planning for May but I think the summer's is good. The Iceland AIP is bilingual and has a variety of approaches including GPS type. There's a handful of large fields for arrival and departure but many smaller ones...

Re: 2 Commanders at Le Touquet Mmmm Yes. Sounds good on the face of it!

Re: 2 Commanders at Le Touquet Hey Lawrence, Have the same plan!!! Check out http://xpda.com/flyingtoeurope/ as well. Full of interesting ideas. Sit in the blue lagoon and watch the jets flying east to west at the high flight levels. Or the black volcanic sands (ice cold version of Hawaii) Me...

Re: Commander Vs Airliner Thanks Scott, Long time since I got invited to a sleep over. :) I booked a condo already from Tues to Sun at Boyne so I'm sorted. Looking forward to it now that the momentum is building>.

Re: Commander Vs Airliner Scott (Galaxy Quest???)I can make it on Tuesday. Should i bring some choice whisky? I spend some time in the local universities and we get a choice between 'known' meat and 'unknown' meat :-) the students eat anything that's put in front of them. How about rattle snake...

Re: Commander Vs Airliner Scott, I'll be flying into Detroit for the Commander BIG PARTY. Never been in Detroit so I'll prob arrive Thursday and look around and I'd really appreciate a lift!!! Rob

Re: Commander Vs Airliner Thought you'd appreciate my experience at airport security. I landed at Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands for fuel. We parked the Commander right outside the security area and the staff shepherded us in to do the paperwork. I had my backpack with docs and toiletries...