PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Transiting Belgium restricted areas
View Single Post
Old 25th Jul 2012, 15:30
  #2 (permalink)  
Jan Olieslagers
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Ansião (PT)
Posts: 2,789
Received 7 Likes on 7 Posts
No experience, just some facts from the AIP and the local VFR map:

-) R24A, though obviously Belgian by nature, is inside Paris FIR so must be found in the French AIP
-) R24B and R25 are no higher than 4500 AMSL, which I believe to be the transition altitude, too
-) R24B and R25 are active with EBFN, so normally on weekdays only. Check the NOTAM's, though, one never knows.

Belgocontrol - Operational , section ENR 5.1

Then a personal feeling: Koksijde is military indeed, but sees little action even on weekdays. I think chances for getting cleared are quite good.

Also: the land is flat as a billiard table there, no worries about terrain. One rather tall radio mast though, on the FR/BE border, just south of EBFN CTR, 818". And above all, steer well clear of the French nuclear power plant northeast of Calais.
Jan Olieslagers is offline