A year later I got the bill from them – €31.96.
Any business doing this would go bust very fast, and I can only hope that they allocate the payment (made for me by someone who has a Euro account so can pay the cost without blowing another €30 in bank charges) to the right account! Pontoise took 6 months to sort this out….
On returning back from Scotland, we spent a few days at a friend’s at St Lunaire near LFRD so we had a chance to sample the airport (20 min bicycle ride or 10 mins taxi/rental car ride)
We had e-mail-PPR’d customs 24h prior and they were expecting us on arrival. They acknowledged the PPR by email.
Easy-in&out at the GA entry security control (as long as all persons carry ID’s and one person carries matching pilots license) next to the check-in desks unless matching the once-twice daily commercial flights: worth checking and adjusting as security procedures change completely.
Easy AVGAS self-refuelling at the fixed pump if you have an AIR-BP card with a readable magnetic strip, otherwise the firemen can arrange it at the ‘C’ office, a small red+white container near the grass parking where we also paid the 50EUR 4-day pkg+ldg fees (SEP 1.8t). Such office will likely be “sparsely manned” at lunch-time as elsewhere in France…there are also NOTAMs restricting RFFS at certain times, so I assume this will also affect capability to man the ‘C’ office for refuelling and fees.
We parked on grass next to some 10 other light aircraft (made the mistake of parking uphill and needed help moving out) . Despite (or perhaps thx to) the slope, grass condition was quite good. Apparently concrete parking should not be a problem in winter. We parked downhill the next day after refuelling and then taxying out a few days later was no issue.
On arrival London and Jersey coordinated our seamless descent from FL190 through the FIR boundaries into and out of Jersey for an RNAV approach at Dinard, where we were speed-restricted to 110KIAS (very unusual but second time this happens to us recently in France! We usually have a hard time descending and slowing down simultaneously).
For departure there are no SID’s so we got a multidirectional departure clearance on course to REN.
During the time we spent there there were frequent marginal VFR conditions with low scattered cloud as is to be expected in channel coastal regions.
Nothing of interest at the terminal other than rental cars with the usual brands being available (at high-season, as was our case, only if booked in advance!).
