May 2014 EuroGA fly-in Mali Losinj LDLO

I suggest that we do Mali Losinj LDLO or Brac LDSB – both lovely islands in the Adriatic. No Zepellin museums on either

From N Europe this is a “very high value” scenic trip. For those who don’t have a suitable aircraft, I am sure there will be spare seats.

Date: probably late May, but not at the very end because of the Socata fly-in which I think is at the very end of May.

Obviously there is nothing official about this – nobody is collecting money and booking hotels for a group – so anybody can do another fly-in anywhere they like, in addition to the above.

I think the PPR may be just in the winter, when there is nobody there officially.

I had some comms with them recently, regarding flying there in the winter. Their website is out of date, BTW.

It’s not from the website, it’s an eMail i just got.

Me too. Are they PPR in the summer too, for sure?

It also shows that they have gone crazy. With one day parking and one pax it is now just shy of 100 Euros.
Used to be in the 60 Euros region until 2012, which I (personally) always considered just about at the limit of reasonableness.

I think it is too high also, but the world we live in is full of greed (greed works) and more specifically incompetent airport management.

However you will spend the difference between €60 and €100 on one modest meal for two, so for a rare visit it doesn’t matter. And they probably think the same… The avgas cost of flying to LDSB from N Germany (or the S. UK) is around €500…

This argument is played out at every level in GA. The UK has a large pilot community who will absolutely not pay more than £5. Another large community is £10 max. The UK sites are full of calls to boycott such and such an airport. Of course any non-taxpayer-subsidised airport cannot exist (in a good surface condition) on that sort of money. So we are going to see changes over the coming years, as airport management starts to screw what they see as rich pilots.

Especially the ex communist ones who used to getting State funding and don’t anymore. The worst thing is a communist turned capitalist – they know perfectly who is easiest to milk

I still love the Croatian islands

If I flew there for more than 2 days I’d try to negotiate the price

Exactly. If you did this regularly (daily, or some such) then you would do it differently. Fly Easyjet to Split and get a boat. But, you know what, you could park an SR22 at Split (or Brac) and take Easyjet to Split every 2 weeks to fly the SR22 and spend less money than parking it at Bournemouth (that was in 2009).