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Cross-country : Sunday's trip
le 01-09-2013 20:00:00 (2710 lectures)

It's a sunny sunday, let's go for a trip.

The idea is to join the Normandy coast west of Deauville, fly along the coast ans the Seine estuary, the north to Le Havre, fly along the coast to Dieppe. We plan to make a stop in Deauville or Le Havre according to the mood.

West of Deauville tis is Houlgatte.

Then Deauville and Trouville

We decide to fly on and make our stop in Le Havre. This is the Normandy bridge.

Before reaching the bridge, this is Honfleur.

A this moment the Deauville controler advises us that Le Have just closed as the runway is unusable. We turn back and land at Deauville.

After a short break we fly over the estuary to Le Havre.

The we reach Etretat and the famous cliffs.

Further east, this is Fécamp.

Being careful not to infringe prohibited areas around Saint Valery en Caux and Penly nuclear powerplants we fly east towards Dieppe before turning back to Nangis.

Cross-country : The beach
le 21-08-2013 20:00:00 (2718 lectures)

Today was a very nice day for flying so we took the RV to go to the beach. Take off at 10:45 and landing at 11:45 at Le Touquet. We missed the bus by two minutes, there were no taxies so we rode bicycles to the beach.

We overflew Côte d'Opale heading north. This is Merlimont beach just north of Berck.

Then Stella beach

And finally Le Touquet-Paris Plage (the airport is visible in the background).

Cross-country : GPS log
le 28-07-2013 10:40:00 (2571 lectures)

This is the GPS log from our flight over Vendée and Brittany.

A clic HERE and you can explore the flight on Google Maps

Cross-country : Back home
le 25-07-2013 14:50:00 (2637 lectures)

A last picture from the river Rance at Dinan before truning back to Nangis.

A national monument, Mont Saint Michel. last night it became an island again due to high tide. This is not visibile on the picture as it is low tide and due to overfly restrictions we cannot get any nearer.

Cross-country : Brittany
le 25-07-2013 14:40:00 (2495 lectures)

Our trip cotinues with the overflight of Brittany's south coast.

This is the tak-off from Belle-île with Donnant beach and Vazen inlet.

As Lorient training area is not active we fly west of Quiberon before entering Lorient airport area from the east. They insist we use the transit procedure, this is the east entry on the river Etel.

This is the city center with the huge submarine bays built by the Germans during second world war.

This is Concarneau where we turn towards the north coast.

And our first stop today where we refill plane and pilots.

We now fly east, and this picture shows Cap Frehel.

For friends a picture of Saint-Briac and Saint-Lunaire beaches.

This is the fortified city of Saint-Malo.

Another fortified city where we'll have our night stop.

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Heures de vol : 532
Passagers : 120
Aérodromes : 91
Atterrissages : 740