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Old 21st Feb 2011, 10:33
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vanHorck
 
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I am VERY glad to hear of all this great news coming out of Romania!

In 2006=2007 I had my Seneca IV based at Baneasa Airport, run by the magnificent Dorin Ivascu (the writer of the PDF in a previous post). In those days foreign aircraft were only allowed VFR flights with prior permission of the CAA and no VFR maps were available.

It was based at the Romanian Flight Academy at Baneasa which has since moved to Strejnic, an aerodrome just to the west of Ploiesti, which I see now has the promised hard runway too.

In my days it was amazingly undulating grass only.

Ploiesti has a lot of history in WW2, because of all the oil refineries, it was a target for bombing raids, which explains some of undulations of the old grass strip....
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