How About a PPRuNe Fly-In?
 

Just thinking about it we have not had a day out for some time.

Who fancies a fly-in then?

Usual situation, you supply a date and place and it goes from there.

Suggestions please........

Good idea BRL

Why don't we copy an idea from another forum and make this a student fly-in? The idea being that PPL's offer their RHS to a student (or low hours PPL) who can gain some valuable experience away from their normal training environment (and perhaps in different aircraft).

Cunning plan. I will try to be on my best behavior.... :O

Somewhere in France, Le Touq, Caen, Cherbourg?

Or Ostend? No need to book customs, friendly big airport experience, cheap bus into town for moules frites, beach and chocolate shops, and I believe the airport are doing a half price offer for landings at weekends. And it's somewhere that a good number of people won't have been.

What about Alderney?

Cheap fuel, feels like you are going to the Caribbean (well nearly :)), everyone can go and meet up at the Braer Hotel on the beach for lunch .. .. .. maybe they would put on a barbie

A slight drawback with Ostend is that Belgium demands an 80 euro fee to issue permission to Permit aircraft to enter the country.

And Alderney is as as dull discussing the serial numbers on a train with a fat smelly old weirdo. If we are doing the CI we could at least do somewhere with some life like Guernsey.

France still gets my vote, friendly to all aircraft types (even the DAY/VFR lot :p ) and usually somewhere nice to eat.

A vital item on any pre-departure checklist!

I second France.

I really like Mariner9's idea and I'd have no problems running one jointly with the Flyer folks.

3/4 seater types get to fly with regular chums and still have space to show life after qualifying to others. Retention is the key aim other than a great day out.

Regards
Rob

What bout leicester centre of uk for all uk pilots plus i wouldnt have to go far :}
David

I did the last Flyer Student Fly-in in a very nice shiny PA28-181 and it was a really good experience to do some serious VOR/GPS nav in and around very busy controlled airspace with an experienced Pilot.

Convivial lunch and good company thrown in for good measure, a great day out!

A fly-in has to be a worthwhile trip. Leicester as a bacon butty run not a fly in.

The idea David is that you'd get to fly in someone's aircraft free of charge (or for a nominal agreed cost share), therefore you should want to fly far! If any of the Leicester-based pilots have a free seat I'm sure you'd be offered one (Rod 1, Dubtrub?)

I like the Ostend suggestion (despite the hassle for Permit aircraft). Channel Islands good too Or how about a farm strip on the coast for a day on the beach eg Bolt Head?

Irony is that they are us (mostly) and we are them (mostly).:}

Review of Ostend: http://www.polestaraviation.com/?p=24

Current landing fee EUR 17.10 for a 1315kg aircraft.

Yes, shame about the charges for PFA aircraft. Would many (any?) really come? I'm sure hundreds would say they would, but we all know there's a huge difference between the numbers who say they'll be there and the numbers who turn up.

Anyway, if not this time then perhaps for others planning a day trip on another occasion, it's an excellent and very easy day out.

Somewhere with an instrument approach would make it likelier that at least some aircraft will make it.

Indeed, I am 'one of them' myself!!!!!!

Anyhow, I would prefer a UK based fly-in for a number of reasons. Not everyone can attend with a club aeroplane as some can only come for an hour or two and I feel abroad is a tad too much for club flyers (regarding time of having aeroplane out).

Others reasons are varied, I have not much time now to go into it as I am just about to leave for work but experience shows a lot more people will turn up for a UK fly-in. How about a seperate 'international fly-in sometime..?

I would suggest somewhere like Compton Abbas, Shoreham (obviously) or Cranfield. Just suggestions as I say but let's go with the flow and all that!

BRL, All pants barr Compton which is marginall. The rest of them have shocking landing fees and little else to offer.


Why not Le touquet, just as accessible to club flyers as those places you have suggested and makes for a little more interesting destination.


Not to mention the endless pages of "how do I do this...." that would follow to keep us all engaged.... :O

We could pick a date in July, then choose from the airfields that have "free landing" vouchers in the July issues of the usual flying magazines?

G

Ghengis .... what a cheapskate... wouldn't it be better to pick a venue which suits our needs and then do a deal with the club/airfield, rather than the whole GA community turning up on the same day because its 'free'. I think to take the magazine voucher and organise a fly in on the back of it would be taking the p**s a bit.

Merely making a suggestion, as a way of helping along the decision making process! The landing fees are trivial, but I quite like the vouchers as a way of making me think of airfields I might not have visited otherwise.

G