Antoine wrote:kai this is a very interesting part of the forum I had somehow missed. nice reading thank you.
my friend Beat and I are planning a trip around the mediterranean next may. we are looking for advice and feedback re the following stopovers:
southern italy, rhodos, cyprus, lebanon, malta, tunisia, marocco, spain portugal
Any advice welcome!
And as to CG envelope, be warned: it is not possible to recover from a spin if your cg is only 10 percent aft of the 50 gal limit. that is why diamond reduced the envelope...
Hello Antoine,
thank you, I will gladly share some of my experience. Feel free to pm me or open another thread, if you wish. I have been in all of the countries and islands you mentioned, except for Lebanon and Tunesia. I'd be very interested to find out what it is like to fly to Lebanon.
Regarding the CG and spin things: still better than a cancer, ain't it?
ok wilco. i will also gladly inform you about lebanon?:
been there did a local vfr flight but the only chart i coul get was an ifr approach. airport is nice, avgas ok, local vfr flying uninteresting, very strictly regulated and dangerous... i guess the DA40 could look like a drone from behind a 20 mm AA gun...
Joey wrote:Great report Kai! What a great adventure. Does your furry friend have a log book as well as a passport?
Antoine, that's interesting that you have already managed to do a local flight there. My fear is getting anywhere close to Israel with a drone-shaped DA40. They are really nervous there....
Joey, my fluffball has a passport. At some airports they obviously found it very funny, interesting, maybe ridiculous to see a guy in a pilot uniform with a dog on his leash and tried to make a funny question asking for his passport. You can't imagine their astonished looks when I presented it
Erik, I hoped this information would be kept confidential, but now that it's out: yes, my dog is my safety pilot and whenever I get spacial or don't intercept an ILS, he just sniffs us the way back to the runway.
When waiting to be cleared at customs in Calcutta, there was an Emirates crew standing in line with us and one of the pilots made a funny comment that my dog would certainly follow instructions better than his co-pilot.
Seriously, now writing about all the funny things and anecdotes, makes me wonder if I will do it again. After this trip I said to myself I would not ever do it again, at least not in a DA40 w/o autopilot, but I am starting to wonder if that is still the case.
Kai, you are too funny. So you have a seeing eye dog. Maybe this will be the wave of the future so that even the blind can learn to fly using seeing eye dog copilots.
Sounds like you really enjoyed your trip tremendously.
Erik wrote:Kai, you are too funny. So you have a seeing eye dog. Maybe this will be the wave of the future so that even the blind can learn to fly using seeing eye dog copilots.
Sounds like you really enjoyed your trip tremendously.
Cheers,
Erik
I think it was more of a character building experience. Don't press your luck Kai. We like having you around.
No, I think I will definitely do it again. But this time without fluffball. This September or so I will definitely give it a try again. But with an autopilot. And Gary, hopefully
