Flying in Europe
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From: Rainham
Flying in Europe
Was interested to know if anyone had any experience flying in easter europe (Poland, Lithuania, etc. as i was looking at flying there in the summer.
Also whats this talk of ELT requirements in Belgium/Holland?
Many thanks
Also whats this talk of ELT requirements in Belgium/Holland?
Many thanks
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From: Amsterdam
Also whats this talk of ELT requirements in Belgium/Holland?
For mode-S, refer to the AIP of the Netherlands, specifically:
GEN 1.5, para 4
ENR 1.6, para 2
There's also a few AICs about this, available from AIS Netherlands or the Eurocontrol site.
For ELT, it's actually an ICAO requirement (annex 6 amd. 31), made applicable in Dutch law as of Feb. 1st, 2009, and is applicable to all international flights in the Dutch FIR. Refer to AIC-B 07/08 for details:
http://www.ivw.nl/Images/AIC-B%200708_tcm247-223162.pdf
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From: Herefordshire
plus.......
... no major probs with Latvia, Estonia or Lithuania for VFR traffic. Controllers' English usually pretty good. Don't be daunted by dozens of staff in military-style uniforms, make sure your flight-plans are detail-perfect and check for fuel availability before you set off. Many airports in the above 3 countries have museums/scrapyards full of stuff from the old Soviet days (Riga best IIRC) Good luck. bm
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First trip was to fly a balloon competition at Leszno, and we got cleared on the Wilga, and flew two other types, some sort of touring Yak and I forget what the other one was... Next time we flew in in the Cub to Jelenia Gora, and did some tugging at the Grunau Baby meet, and flew the Yak 12 which is like a Cub on steroids. I went to Gliwice on that trip, too. We did some gliding too, all sorts of fun stuff. mostly vintage wooden types. We've been by road as well, with our Libelle in its trailer. Good wave in the autumn and spring.
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From: Warsaw
Hi, I am Polish GA pilot, fly a lot IFR/VFR, Poland, Czech, Hungary are easy going, but make sure they have fuel where you go (in Poland it may be difficult to get except ca. 10 major airports, but it is cheap), for Poland there is a great website - Portal | dlapilota.pl, Czech Republic is probably easiest for pilot, if you consider Slovenia and Croatia they are friendly and nice with cheap fuel, Romania is very difficult (for VFR you need prior permit before even overflying) and veeery expensive (e.g. EUR 250 for handling and 1 day parking i paid in Cluj Napoca),
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Except for awful VFR+GPS chart from Jeppesen (there are no lakes depicted, etc.) and pure boredom with flat landscape it's actually pretty easy provided you know how to do DR properly or you navigate by other means. Be sure to have all the frequencies that you think you might need written down, since ATC tends to mix the numbers - the accent doesn't help, truth be told.
And if you actually read the AIP, there is nothing that even remotely suggest you would need S-mode transponder for VFR flights, neither does Jeppesen VFR Text for Hungary.
And if you actually read the AIP, there is nothing that even remotely suggest you would need S-mode transponder for VFR flights, neither does Jeppesen VFR Text for Hungary.
