This latest adventure involves, in brief,
a plan to fly Mooney M20M N2125K from its base in Habsheim (France) to Zhengzhou in China.

Now in Dublin, packing.  No sign yet of Chinese permits.  Lots of small things to attend to.  Rushing.

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  1. Unknown13 April 2017 at 14:16

    Now it is 13 April, Easter Thursday (aka Maundy Thursday). I flew by Swiss (Swissair) Dublin to Zurich, then I took a train to Basel and then to Rixheim nearby in France. This was to be near the departure airfield at Habheim LFGB. The whole door to door time was more than 10 hours, I should have flown myself in G-RVIB.

    Bryan and Uta in EI-VII very very kindly brought over my oxygen cylinders from Dublin and left them at the aero club. The are staying at Besancon for the weekend, along with Larry & Louise plus Ed & Stewart. Sorry I won't see them all.

    The "Choucroute" or Aviatik club had a drinks reception with beer and sausage/cheese bits as a sendoff. Good cheer and actually good food too. One senses that a flight to China is so far beyond the scope of the normal club member's flying that it hardly registers. We might as well be saying we are off to the moon.

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  2. Unknown14 April 2017 at 00:50

    Having signed up for Whatsapp a couple of days ago, my night's sleep was interrupted several times by messages arriving and causing my phone to beep loudly. This happened even though I had carefully switched off the app before going to bed. The purveyors of social media don't want us to miss anything! Now I see that it can be muted, maybe that will be better. Peter has arrived in Brisbane, Simon is in Calgary, so we have global timezone coverage.

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    1. Unknown14 April 2017 at 14:29

      Today at 4.15 pm we finally left Habsheim. The IFR routing took us east along the German-Swiss border, over Austria at 16,000 feet, then down into Portoroz in Slovenia. Following the usual friendly welcome at this agreeable airport, we took a shuttle to the Hotel Piran. There we met by arrangement Jim Thorpe from Gloucester and his friend David from Denham, we went off for beers and a good ,eal by the seafront. This is a very agreeable town.

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  3. Unknown19 April 2017 at 09:02

    Good to hear you are in Chittagong! I only see blog up to April 14 in Portoroz.

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