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Old 7th Jul 2008, 14:44
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Greece is the most fantastic place for flying - all those islands and decent distances, and usually great VFR conditions.

The airports don't make it easy, with poor opening hours, avgas, Customs etc provision. Let's hope this changes.

They had the AOPA world conference there a few weeks ago. I think Phil Boyer was amazed at how (relatively to the USA) few pilots were around.

I was going to fly down there in the TB20 (to Mikonos, 1 fuel stop in Split LDSP) but had to cancel (and take an airline) due to huge areas of IMC to FL250+ with embedded CBs everywhere, all over the Alps and Yugoslavia. Looking at the sferics data, the stormscope would have been lit up like an xmas tree.

Might still pop down later in the year.
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