Trip to Helgoland Island, EDXH

trip to Helgoland, EDXH
This writeup describes a trip to isle of Helgoland , EDXH.
Helgoland is the one and only Germany’s deep-water Island.
It s located approx 30NM north of the shoreline so lifevests ( mandatory)and dinghi were onboard.
Till 1890 Helgoland was the part of the British Empire and in a contract it was given to germany while Germany gave up its activities in Sansibar.
After WW2 Helgoland was used by the Royal airforce for Targetted bombing training by acft so the inhabitants returend in the early 1950 to Helgoland.
This explains “charming” but in my eyes ugly architecture because Helogland was rebuilt quickly and with less financial resources as it was usual after WW2.
So what makes the charme of Helgoland?
For those ones who fly to there its the small airport with its 3 RWY’s, the longest is 480m plus 30m Overun.Fortunately there are in fact no real obstacles .
for non-pilots there is a shuttle srved by a small company by using twin-engine 8 seater " Norman britten oslander"
Helgoland is in fact divided in 2 islands which were splitted in the 17 century by a huge storm.
The airfield is located on the very small island called “Düne” ( Dune)
There is only a Campingfield ,2 Restaurants ( one at the airfield) ,some woodenhouses for renting and bigger families of seals. Two beaches , nice white sand …..
And silence , except airplane’s noise ;-)
You can get to the “main island” by ferryboat.
There are plenty of daily visitors every day , coming by vessle from Hamburg etc.
they are using the shopping benefit of Tax – and vat free shopping, so,esp. Cigaretts, Alcohol and parfume.
Accomodation:
there are different types of rooms and guesthouses available via www.helgoland.de.
we decided for the tent on the campingarea close to the airfield.
Facilities are moden and clean, two nights costs 41,00€ for a two-petson tent.
quite expensive but avgas is cheaper , we paied 1,75€ per Liter but the limitation is often the RWY-lenght, means takeoff distance.And you must confirm some days before by phone the availability.
In the afternoons when the daily tourists leave the island, the silence and charme is more visible and for those who likes watching and oberserving the birds and the seals – its a paradise then and in the evenings it can happen that you are the only one at the beach.
during our trip we had a TV-Team onboard and they posted on youtube this clip from the trip

Flight conduction was in a way standard, Y-Plan from Dortmund , FL 120, when EDXH was in sight we cancelled IFR in 3500 ft and called Helgoland-Info for Landing infos.
Due to X-wind and no traffic free choice of RWY so I decided for RWY 33 which has no obstacles but in front of threshold only rocks and water.
the TWR was – naturally for this type of airfield – not informed about our flightplan so we asked him to close it by phone and he did so.

I will add later some pics, too