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Old 3rd Jul 2008, 08:54
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Foxbat01
 
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Just returned from there.

Reception friendly and helpful they sent a van out to meet us on landing and transport luggage. They were expecting us and even had the copies of the Fax we'd sent advising of the trip although we had no response.

ATC across the VFR routes from France very easy, do your planning and stick to the routes and altitudes and you'll have no problems.

It has no IFR approaches so you will need to follow the VFR points into and out of the pattern.

It is grass, watch out for the floating houseboats passing the 24 end.

There is no fuel available and they only accept flights from Schengen countries. That said there is a phone number on the NOTAMs to call for fuel which is the 'Response Helicopter' operators - they have fuel and don't respond to their phone. Plan on having sufficient fuel to get back, although they did let us have a small quantity of fuel to increase our safety margins to a point we could refuel - price was eye watering.

There were several light aircraft from around Europe there and arrived after us.

Enjoy the trip.
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