That’s their special LVP follow-me car
Better late than never… here’s a report on this Menorca trip
http://peter2000.co.uk/aviation/menorca/index.html
My trip writeup backlog is now down to 1: Avignon. I don’t think I will do it because it would be just a picture gallery of the city, with nothing else remarkable that I recall.
Thanks for the write-up @Peter. Very complete and useful, as usual.
In the report you mention in the Route section that the flight plan filing feature of Autorouter doesn’t allow the flight plan parameters to be edited. I haven’t tried changing the parameters you mention (EET), but you have the opportunity to review and modify the flight plan text via the edit icon after “Route”. I’ve used it to change the flight type from G to X before Achim added “X – Training” as an option under Additional Input. Or have I misunderstood exactly what you want to do?
Many thanks Chflyer.
The issue is the Aero EDNY one e.g. here and here. It is the EET you cannot edit – it is calculated from the route and the aircraft performance model. It is really a “purist” approach that the EET should be calculated and not user-editable and I had numerous discussions with Achim about that in the old days when EuroGA did such a lot of beta testing for them… along with other stuff like Nobody uses the Back button on a browser, it is old fashioned and its use should not be supported
If I was the programmer I would have allowed EET modification, with a warning that the FP may not validate when the entered value exceeds the Eurocontrol model limits… but the Eurocontrol perf models are top secret and this method might be used to reverse engineer them so maybe that was the reason (I doubt it since you can edit the EET on say EuroFPL or any direct AFTN filing system).
I’ve recently been in touch with Karen from MTA regarding my upcoming visit, their Handling fees have now increased to Euro 150.00.
That is their standard price. You need to invoke that Spanish law in this case, like we did. They didn’t like that…
I did mention other pilots that I knew paid less in October. She said that prices had gone up since last October, the first rise in 5 yrs.
Peter wrote:
I don’t think I will do it because it would be just a picture gallery of the city, with nothing else remarkable that I recall.
Pity, would have been interested to read how things are there nowadays.
I’m heading down to Menorca on Sunday (unfortunately commercial). Does anybody know if the local aeroclub offers aircraft for rent? I have sent them an email but don’t expect a reply. I’ll give them a call or a visit otherwise.