Thanks. So they have changed the text on the again. Yet the NOTAM is unchanged (which they don‘t really have to change, since the airfield is PPR anyway).
Eager to see what solution they will come up with. Nothing short of a total closure can by 100% prevent someone from crashing into these houses again, just like at other airfields!
Not sure one can get PPR without talking German anyway.
Unbelievable. If every airfield thinks like this, we soon aren’t able to fly anywhere.
Shall we therefore just close all airports for pilots coming from these kinds of “home-based-only” fields?
The airfield does have a “ge, en” entry in Jeppesen Bottlang, which can be accessed from their website. But as long as the website itself is only German, foreigners might indeed have a little language issue. Logically, they now removed their PPR and customs forms from their website as well.
The question is what it even means to be “based” there? Residency in town? How does one become “based”? It’s ridiculous.
Come on, you know it means „based aircraft“.
boscomantico wrote:
Come on, you know it means „based aircraft“.
Based aircraft, yes. Based pilots (“ansässige Piloten”) not quite so clear.
The website says: “Landungen für nicht ansässige Piloten, sind derzeit nicht möglich.”
Translated: “Landings for non-based pilots, are not possible at the moment.”
Semantics?
There is now a NOTAM in place, stating Reutte aerodrome (LOIR) is now completely closed until the 10th of November 2023. Very sad.
They had a deadly glider accident yesterday. According to local media they shut down for the weekend. On the Website it says they were closed until further notice by the Authority… They didnt mention witch authority did this, if we are lucky only until they finish first investigation into the accident. If we are unlucky the local authorities shut down the Airfield for good “because it represents a big Danger for the People”
I don’t know if in that glider accident, trees played any role. Probably not. Still, the authority has mandated a new survey of the obstacles situation and ordered to closure of the airfield until that is done and assessed. Crazy bureaucrat stuff.
Apparently, two guest aircraft, including a Cirrus, are now stranded there and not even those are given special permission to depart!
