Calais for the day

We took a 172, we had tried earlier in teh month in a 150 but the weather had not been good and without VOR’s etc it was a wise choice to turn round.

In the end it was so clear the 150 would of been ok, but always more p[ayload in a 172 😀

well done im sure you had great fun, for sure I will likemto try it one day and what aircaft did you do it in?

Regards

R.weaver

Safe legal flying

Mmmn reading back on that could have been better pharsed. Well sure you will see them posing round Duxford this Summer.

In answer to the question..unfortuanately not

Originally posted by Learning_Slowly
Well you know you give girls in the back a camera they will photgraph anything. They took 101 photos in an hours flight.

Dare we ask…? No, probably best not to….

Well you know you give girls in the back a camera they will photgraph anything. They took 101 photos in an hours flight.

Sorry to mislead you 🙂

Oh I see :rolleyes: ! Ususally most people tend to photograph airfields when quoting the view from 2 mile finals! I wouldn’t have thought it was too unusual if you were in an amphibian!

Can’t you see the runway then? 🙂

The picture is out the side window. I read all the water survival times and ditching procedure before i went, NOT comfortable reading

Glad to hear it! So long as you have enough altitude to get to a ship you massively increase your survival odds.

If that first picture is 2 mile finals, I’d love to know what on earth in that field of view is considered to be a runway! 😀

It was a lovely clear day we crossed at about 3000 on the way out about 3500 on the way back, because of not so broken cloud cover. Either way we wouldnt have glided clear, you just hav eto make precautions. It is not a long way over, there are plenty of ships, take lifejackets and a dingy if you can get it in or a survival suit. It is only 17 mins praying your engine is ok.

Moggy, very good it was on about 2 mile finals.

Originally posted by wysiwyg
I trust you didn’t cross as low as the altitude in the first picture in a single!!! If so you are a braver man than me in mid winter!

From the look of the harbour I’d guess that was taken on about 2 mile finals.

Moggy

Originally posted by EAL_KING
you got ppl how much is it 2 fly 2 france including fuel ect

The Le Touquet trip that I posted the photo link to cost each of us about 70 quid directly. (In other words I haven’t included any portion of our monthly group payments.)

Moggy

Im on to my mam for £5000 to go to Florida and get a JAA PPL after i finish my GCSEs

I trust you didn’t cross as low as the altitude in the first picture in a single!!! If so you are a braver man than me in mid winter!

you got ppl how much is it 2 fly 2 france including fuel ect

It was very quiet but a Stearman and a Miles something had made it there.

My instructor has been to L2K before and so not to bore him we thought we would go the opposite direction. He does tell me that L2K is alot nicer, but we will try somewhere different in the Summer. Maybe Ostende.

Anyone for a fly out 🙂

Great stuff.

Calais looks as busy as usual :rolleyes: Any reason you didn’t go to Le Touquet like every other British flier?

Moggy

My Le Touquet pictures are HERE

I only just got the camera so it was over used by the girls in teh back

It worked so two more

I did a lot of check where boats were. I will try to post the pics.

Are you going to post any pictures?

Moggy