how do you class general aviation???

We can fly anywhere we please (Outside of airways / danger areas etc., of course)

Many of us pop across the English Channel on day trips, usually to Le Touquet (Nearest customs field to the UK). Suddenly you are in a country where they speak a different language, use different currency and generally speaking dress and cook better than we do.

But there is nothing to stop you keeping on going. I’ve taken the Colt to Italy. Friends regularly travel to Spain, Belgium, Holland, Germany.

No custome formalities outbound, just the need to land at an airfield in Europe that has, or can provide Customs. They usually don’t turn up, aren’t remotely interested. After that there are few formalities until your return, when you must notify UK Customs of your return to the strip. Here they have never turned up.

This is when the small expense of a share in an aircraft like mine starts to payback a hundredfold. 🙂

Moggy

Can you really go anywhere over there or are you restricted just to the Royal kingdom?

Yup we have a shed. It’s on a small grass strip with no facilities on the site of the 388th Bomb Groups’ (8th AF) base at Knettishall.

It costs us a fair amount, contributing quite a lot to the £60 per month that we each pay into the group funds. But for a fabric aircraft such protection is essential in the UK climate.

At the strip there are, of course, no landing fees. So touch & gos would be free, but we don’t do a lot so as to keep the neighbours content.

Some fields do charge for them, those are the ones we stay away from.

Moggy

Moggy, do you have a hanger? Is it expensive as well? Also A british flight student told me that they charged you per touch and go. Is that true?

Anything not military or operating under an AOC would be my definition.

Moggy