Good morning, flying into Maastricht EHBK on Friday (weather not looking great at the moment so might be a bit of an adventure). Despite the AIP saying handling is mandatory, I did get in touch with the handler and it actually isn’t. Does anyone have any experience with EHBK?
thanks,
Wim
I found it to be good but it has a very big airport feel wrt to things like security etc.
thanks, it is a utility thing, need to be 15KM’s away, this is what they are quoting for the parking/landing fee
landingfees €16,55 ex
Parkingfees € 29,16 (p/d € 9,72 ex)
Handling fees only on request
Avgas is available
forgot to say this is for a Piper Comanche 2PAX
Hi Wim, I’ve been to EHBK a couple of times. There is no handling required.
Airport gets little traffic. The city Maastricht is very pretty.
Thanks Lenthamen
So, I finally ended up driving from LFHN to where I needed to be about 30KMs away from EHBK. I think I made the right choice, though weather on Saturday was way better than predicted, the flight back on Sunday wouldn’t have been much fun and I would have been in IMC probably before I could have picked up my IFR clearance. Since we live in the mountains not something I was very comfortable doing (this is my first year as an instrument rated pilot.
Would you have gone?
!! 
Sorry I should have clarified I needed to be there on Friday and needed to be back at work this morning…
Hi,
According to the AIP and this report https://airports.euroga.org/record.php?id=581 handling is now mandatory? Anybody knows if that’s actually being enforced or if there are any exceptions?
Planning a day trip soon.
Enforced :(
Handling is mandatory indeed. :-( Depending on your mission, I suggest you use EDKA.
Thanks Peter and Frans, I suspected as much.
EDKA looks like a nice destination for other trips, will sure look into it in the future.
