Hi John,
Good to "see" you.
Yes, together with the instructors, the old club ambience was what kept the thing going (I do miss our friendly arguements about anglo-french matters, and RT in french in the circuit!). Things have not been the same since I have relocated on this side of the channel! However: we do have a great restaurant at LFPD. Why don't you organise for the old EF gang to visit one of these days? There is no golf course but we can arrange something on the rather large taxiways!
In fact, this offer to visit is open to all Pprunners.
LFPD is 15 minutes flying time south east of Deauville. Cap 10 were built there and "we" are still building the CAP 232.
We do aerobatics, we got a tiger moth, a cub (and a few DR400 too)....and it's dead cheap to fly compared to what I used to pay in the UK!
Christophe Bourillon