France trip info!!!
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No info on airfields on your proposed route. If you get forced further East then Tours is always very helpful.
Once in SW France can recommend Auch (excellent restaurant); Cahors & Libourne (very good restaurants).
Villeneuve-s-Lot is closed non resident A/C; nothing there either.
Agen - friendly, no restaurant, actually charges landing fees just like the UK!
Marmande - no restaurant
Fumel - nothing at all, middle of nowhere, not even a lost dog.
Not sure what you're flying - if you need mogas St Exupery (Lot & Garonne) has a pump (nominally microlight field, but 800+m good grass; check for very low level, very high speed Alpha jets and Mirages especially when R46N is active); may have restaurant open again soon.
Once in SW France can recommend Auch (excellent restaurant); Cahors & Libourne (very good restaurants).
Villeneuve-s-Lot is closed non resident A/C; nothing there either.
Agen - friendly, no restaurant, actually charges landing fees just like the UK!
Marmande - no restaurant
Fumel - nothing at all, middle of nowhere, not even a lost dog.
Not sure what you're flying - if you need mogas St Exupery (Lot & Garonne) has a pump (nominally microlight field, but 800+m good grass; check for very low level, very high speed Alpha jets and Mirages especially when R46N is active); may have restaurant open again soon.
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All please listen!
I'm flying from fairoaks (UK) obviously i will file the correct paperwork. once i land in france at a customs airport. i want to fly france and land at 4/5 maybe 6 different french airfields. maybe smaller ones. im hour building and need to do trips like these. once i get bored ( i wont know when) lets say im in the air bound for another french airport and i suddenly change my mind and want to fly back to the uk and i have already submitted the return paperwork, who could stop me once airborn!
im not trying to be the system i just want a little more freedom than haveing to check in and out everytime. my point is i wont know when i want to come back,. i may just turn around and say. lets head back now? who can do what?
I'm flying from fairoaks (UK) obviously i will file the correct paperwork. once i land in france at a customs airport. i want to fly france and land at 4/5 maybe 6 different french airfields. maybe smaller ones. im hour building and need to do trips like these. once i get bored ( i wont know when) lets say im in the air bound for another french airport and i suddenly change my mind and want to fly back to the uk and i have already submitted the return paperwork, who could stop me once airborn!
im not trying to be the system i just want a little more freedom than haveing to check in and out everytime. my point is i wont know when i want to come back,. i may just turn around and say. lets head back now? who can do what?
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It'll come.... 
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m not trying to be the system i just want a little more freedom than haveing to check in and out everytime. my point is i wont know when i want to come back,. i may just turn around and say. lets head back now? who can do what?
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“transponders .. I understand they are not mandated in France”
The rules state you need Mode C in class D airspace. I understand this is not enforced, but if there is an incident, the French will “remember”.
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The rules state you need Mode C in class D airspace. I understand this is not enforced, but if there is an incident, the French will “remember”.
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All please listen!
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Listen pal, we're listening, but you didn't give us all the facts in your first post either so don't expect us all to have our crystal balls out.
Now YOU LISTEN.
As private pilots we have a great freedom to be able to nip across the channel for lunch etc whenever we choose. Apart from the usual flight planning, notams, wx etc, all we need to do is fax LHR with an FPL from home, punch in the return FPL into Olivia, turn up at Booker (for example), hand in the Gen Dec and go. Booker then notify the relevant authorities that we'll be back at say 5pm or whatever. REMEMBER 4HOURS NOTICE REQUIRED FOR COMING HOME.
These are fairly simple rules and not too difficult given the current govt. climate of wanting to control everything.
What none of us need is you f***ing it up for us by flying about rural airfields and then just coming straight home without having filed a FPL, given the UK 4hrs prior notice or having complied with the French rules of leaving either from a designated airfield or making suitable arrangements with the French.
If you are unable to plan past the end of your nose, I suggest you take up another hobby/profession, 'cos aviation aint for you PAL.
Rant over.
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lol. what a ******* gay!! sorry old man i will do as i please thank you very much.
i have always stated that i will file to and from flight plans. there only ETA im alloud to be early or late.
go bore some other people
i have always stated that i will file to and from flight plans. there only ETA im alloud to be early or late.
go bore some other people
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What none of need is you f***ing it up for us by flying about rural airfields and then just coming straight home without having filed a FPL, given the UK 4hrs prior notice or having complied with the French rules of leaving either from a designated airfield or making suitable arrangements with the French.
We do have great freedoms. But with freedom comes responsibilities. The requirements are not very onerous. Comply with them.
If you want different rules, then go ask your politicians to get them changed....don't ignore them and mess it up for the rest of us.
PH-UKU,
No avgas available at either Ile D'Yeu or Belle Ile when I was there (2006). Accomodation can be a problem if you haven't booked it in advance. On the weekend in June when I arrived in Ile D'Yeu there was absolutely NO accomodation available whatsoever according to the tourist office who had just spent the morning looking for something for somone else. I had to end up camping.
Get some bikes and cycle around...it's not that big, and there's not that much to see.
Belle Ile. You'll need a hire car. They will deliver them to the airport if you ask in advance. There are a few things worth seeing.
Both airports were french only when AFIS wasn't active, but there wasn't very much traffic at either.
You might want to bring some tie downs. It was very windy in both places when I was there! I got the impression that this was quiet normal!
I didn't have a similar to IO540 in La Rochelle. In fact I seem to remember being cleared into the CTR from 45 miles out! Landing fee was €7, and parking for three nights was free, because we parked on the grass!
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