It was the day of the flight. After filling up the airplane and putting on our life fests, we went to immigration at the terminal building of Lelystad Airport. After a short passport check we took off. The weather was beautiful, so er chose to go directly over the North See. First we were speaking to [...]
When I’m flying here in the Netherlands, I download the approach charts of the airfields that I’m landing at, plus some alternates in case I have to divert. On all the fields I’ve been I have to fly a certain traffic pattern called the circuit, and these need to be entered from a certain location with [...]
Today I've spent time gathering all the information together for our flight. Think about approach plates, alternates, landing info, and highlighting the track on the map so I could see my drawn line a little bit better during the flight. All bits and pieces are really coming together now. The printer is making over time, and [...]
I'm getting more and more excited about this flight. Especially whilst doing the preparation. I have a bunch of maps, of which one is a very detailed map with a 1:250,000 scale. On this map I've been drawing out the route so I can have this on standby whilst flying, to recognise as much as possible. [...]
My wife is from Huddersfield, and in 2016, during my flying lessons, I've picked her up once from her hometown together with my FI. It was a legendary trip that I intended to do again as soon as I was licenced. Now it's the time, and scheduled this flight for the 29th of June 2018, coming [...]