Curiously the front here (pointed to by the arrow)
was only this little lump
with tops around 9000ft.
Another reason for sticking with the IR images. They sometimes show over-high cloud when it is just a thin layer but they never lie about the tops.
Contact details for the really excellent apartment, Praha 1 i.e. quite central
Tracks:
Out:
Back:
Black = actual track.
N2136E safely back at EGCF – was that return flight VFR or IFR ?!
Well done both of you
Yes we did wonder…
Hey “Prague guys”
was nice to meet you for dinner.
Departed Sunday-Morning to Warsaw-Babice, EPBC, the GA Apt of Warsaw.
Good alternate to EPWA but no IR-APCH and inbetween more expensive but still OK.
FL130 in CAVOK :-)
Monday 9UTC back to Dortmund, due to up to 30kt headwind we splitted up the flights in two parts, each 2:15
Intermediate Stop in EDAY , Berlin-Straussberg.
Perfect Service as always there.
WX was better as expected , FL 100 all the time and 98% on top.
C U next time somewhere
Stefan
OK, here is a load of pics…
At Shoreham, with my two passengers who are still smiling… ignorance is bliss
Climbing up through a bit of cloud
Settled at FL160, -13C; the strategy being that one won’t likely get airframe icing at -13C and we could not climb totally above the haze
Descending to Prague, ILS runway 24
Three others on the ILS before me, according to the TAS display on the KMD550
Runway in sight, just about
Two airliners waiting to depart. ATC had earlier asked our IAS and used that to fit us in somehow
Somebody made this hangar a bit too small!
Czech food can be “challenging”
The usual – Charles Bridge. This time it was really packed and not easy to walk across it
This was a nice cafe/restaurant
Colm, Sheldon (my younger son), Justine and me
Walking up the hill; much nicer than taking the funicular railway which had a massive queue
This tower had great views, plus another queue
One of my predecessors – clearly a VFR pilot
Somebody had been trained in the UK!
A certain type of plant seems to be legal… not that I would know anything about that; didn’t touch the stuff even at univ
The statue of Masaryk; the first Czech president
A very dense hot chocolate and a cheesecake – nice but…
The famous tower with the apostles which pop in and out of the windows every hour or so
A nice cafe… one could imagine the spies doing their business under the table there
The old national museum – closed for a few more years
The new museum – but it had nothing it in!
A lovely mosaic in a restaurant
Teenagers can still eat this stuff…
The former Stalin memorial site
Back at the airport, passengers swapped over, and the clouds looking very low
You can’t do this “VFR”… not even tongue in cheek (well in the UK you can)
FL100 (that altimeter is still on QNH) and still +3C which was nice
And apart from a few lumps, that’s how it was all the way home
Great pictures Peter.
I might have missed it in the thread somewhere, but what costs did you end up with at LKPR?
I was going to post it and then forgot.
All in Euros.
Fuel 358.7 (150 litres)
Slot assistance 9.11
Turnaround 54.68 (don’t laugh)
Disbursement 35.87 (don’t laugh)
Landing 46.40
Parking (day) 55.34
Parking (night) 19.40
On the last two I am not sure about the calculation but I parked for 3 nights, arriving about 1200Z and departing 0800Z.
So, excluding fuel, LKPR costs around €150 for say 1 night – same as last year.
There was no other GA apart from that one SR20 or 22 which was also there last year.
What are “turn-around” and “disbursement” fees for?