Sirna Airfield, Romania
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Sirna Airfield, Romania
My name is Sebastian, and i'm from Romania. I own an aviation online magazine,
I'm learning to fly on an Apollo fox ultralight airplane.
Our airfield is situated near Bucharest. It has 600 meters Lenght, and it's made of grass.
In the hangar we have 2 Apollo Fox and a Magni giro M24 Orion, the only one giro from Romania.
We have also a Blanik sailplane.
I atach some pictures with winter flying at Sirna "international " Airfield
I'm learning to fly on an Apollo fox ultralight airplane.
Our airfield is situated near Bucharest. It has 600 meters Lenght, and it's made of grass.
In the hangar we have 2 Apollo Fox and a Magni giro M24 Orion, the only one giro from Romania.
We have also a Blanik sailplane.
I atach some pictures with winter flying at Sirna "international " Airfield
Nice photography, thanks for sharing.
Where exactly is the aerodrome? I tried to locate it on Google maps - out of sheer curiosity - to no avail. Could only find a vollage of Sirna just to the south of Ploiesti. Mind to share the coordinates?
Happy flying!
Where exactly is the aerodrome? I tried to locate it on Google maps - out of sheer curiosity - to no avail. Could only find a vollage of Sirna just to the south of Ploiesti. Mind to share the coordinates?
Happy flying!
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http://www.edaz.de/pdf/edaz/EU_Dorin_Ivascu.pdf
go to 'Airports and Aeroclubs of Romania'
go to 'Airports and Aeroclubs of Romania'
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Indeed Sirna is a village South of Ploiesti, here is its location in Wikimapia .
There are quite a few such airfields developed lately in Romania, and the latest changes allowing aircrafts under 5700 kg to use them without the need of certification, and airspace relaxation with the abdication of the 24/48 hours prior planning and acknowledgment, simple normal FPLs being enough even for border crossing, will hopefully see a GA rise. Unfortunately bigger "normal" airports still have no idea about what GA is, ripping off huge fees, even hundreds of euro for a visit.
There are quite a few such airfields developed lately in Romania, and the latest changes allowing aircrafts under 5700 kg to use them without the need of certification, and airspace relaxation with the abdication of the 24/48 hours prior planning and acknowledgment, simple normal FPLs being enough even for border crossing, will hopefully see a GA rise. Unfortunately bigger "normal" airports still have no idea about what GA is, ripping off huge fees, even hundreds of euro for a visit.
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The former communist Europe has a huge potential for GA.
I hope they follow the example of Croatia and do it sensibly, with 1 policeman = "international airport and Customs"
And avgas of course.
Rather than follow e.g. Albania where you get a bill as long as your arm, totalling over 200 euros, including a charge for runway lights (in daytime). Apparently Tirana got a western company to run its operations. The worst thing these "new GA" countries can do is let in officials from the UK, EASA, Eurocontrol to "show" them how to run things because all those people are just cynical job creators.
I am from the Czech Republic, which has gone sort of halfway, having totally brown-nosed JAA and later EASA (the Czech delegates in the EU practically kiss everybody's feet and then vote YES) but having preserved a reasonable freedom for light GA, so long as they don't want to go to Prague (LKPR)
I hope they follow the example of Croatia and do it sensibly, with 1 policeman = "international airport and Customs"
And avgas of course.Rather than follow e.g. Albania where you get a bill as long as your arm, totalling over 200 euros, including a charge for runway lights (in daytime). Apparently Tirana got a western company to run its operations. The worst thing these "new GA" countries can do is let in officials from the UK, EASA, Eurocontrol to "show" them how to run things because all those people are just cynical job creators.
I am from the Czech Republic, which has gone sort of halfway, having totally brown-nosed JAA and later EASA (the Czech delegates in the EU practically kiss everybody's feet and then vote YES) but having preserved a reasonable freedom for light GA, so long as they don't want to go to Prague (LKPR)
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The G space is in place from 2007 I think, but take a good look in NOTAMS for LRRs LRDs etc which are extended almost everywhere, especially in the East, I reckon with much less activity in the latest times; ATC people for controlled spaces are English proficient and for the rest you can get a prior arrangement, part of the pre-flight job. Will work for sure with correct contacts in sight, no worries, no thrills.
Sorry for the late post, I was admiring aviation activity at LOWZ, from a more earthy but nevertheless attractive perspective.
Sorry for the late post, I was admiring aviation activity at LOWZ, from a more earthy but nevertheless attractive perspective.
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Just opening a business in Bucharest
Someone told me there is a pilot club in Bucharest somewhere near the Aviator statue do you know it ?
are you allowed sea planes in romania as I have a villa on Lac snagov
Someone told me there is a pilot club in Bucharest somewhere near the Aviator statue do you know it ?
are you allowed sea planes in romania as I have a villa on Lac snagov
http://www.edaz.de/pdf/edaz/EU_Dorin_Ivascu.pdf
go to 'Airports and Aeroclubs of Romania'
go to 'Airports and Aeroclubs of Romania'
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@Jan Olieslagers: there is only one airport near Suceava town, that is LRSV, the others are small airfields with grass runways, uncertified, mostly ultralights usage. On that specific map:
8 - inexistent, just a field for ocasional ultralight visits
9 - regional state airclub, grass runway laying near LRSV runway - so same location
10 - concrete 600 m runway near Vatra Dornei, a city in the mountains about 90 km W of LRSV
11 - ??? never heard
and is missing a very good 600 m grass field in Fratauti, just N of Radauti, 30 km N of LRSV.
@jxc: maybe is the state airclub headquarters in Lascar Catargi no. 54? I don't think there are problems with seaplanes, but of course you know there are a lot of boats on Snagov during warm season.
8 - inexistent, just a field for ocasional ultralight visits
9 - regional state airclub, grass runway laying near LRSV runway - so same location
10 - concrete 600 m runway near Vatra Dornei, a city in the mountains about 90 km W of LRSV
11 - ??? never heard
and is missing a very good 600 m grass field in Fratauti, just N of Radauti, 30 km N of LRSV.
@jxc: maybe is the state airclub headquarters in Lascar Catargi no. 54? I don't think there are problems with seaplanes, but of course you know there are a lot of boats on Snagov during warm season.
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@jxc : this is my email: [email protected]
We can talk more about that on email, can you tell me more about your intentions?
thanks
Wo wants to come this summer at Vatra Dornei for mountain flying?
YouTube - aerodrom-floreni.mpg
We can talk more about that on email, can you tell me more about your intentions?
thanks
Wo wants to come this summer at Vatra Dornei for mountain flying?
YouTube - aerodrom-floreni.mpg
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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....
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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the link is Revista Pilot Magazin, pentru pasionatii de aviatie
The magazine is 90% in romanian, but now i'm trying to publish some english articles at "english" section
The magazine is 90% in romanian, but now i'm trying to publish some english articles at "english" section
Some fine detective work, but not perfect, alas. Think I begin to understand the "smoke and daggers" thing. Must be an adventurous country, Romania!
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I tried to access http://pilotmagazin.ro , and couldn't: all I got for my efforts was the gibberish I copied. Too bad for me, I gain my daily bread AND flying hours by resolving that kind of stuff. The site seems to be operational now, though. Perhaps we are being monitored even from Romania?