Hannes and Matthias before takeoff in Salzburg to a very special trip!!!
My wingman over austrian alps...15 min. after dep on top of that white stuff..
Arad refueling. More east..more people involved...we did not take picutures of paperwork :-)
Tigerbaby taking a deap breath at his rest in Arad, enjoing sitting on the elevator of D-EUNA...
26.03.2007 Salzburg 0800 LT. Customs delaration, carnet for aircrafts, passportcontroll, last items collecting, wx-check. Looking good for the flight. Hannes and I took of at LOWS at 0920 this morning, blue skies, perfect weather for our trip to Arad. Level 100 enroute to the hungarian border, 7000 feet to rumanian border at TEGRI. After 2:40 hours we landed safe in Arad, quick refuel, wx-check again and: Pay landingfees, pay fuel, and pay ATS-Fees. Still east, but already Europe... good service in Arad, very friendly people there.
Weather enroute from Arad to Istanbul was cavok at beginning, with some problems further down south,
the "Karpaten" Mountains in Rumania broght us our first off-track, but managed well to pass the high hills,
apps. 3.600 meters high... passing Bukarest down to Bulgaria, abeam Burgas we had real low clouds and partly snow and rain. Into Turkey we have flown over almost just forest all the time, I cant remember when I was flying over such big forests ever, except canada. Take it by the word: Lots of wood in front of the door here in Turkey. My longest flight in an Extra300 today, after 3:40 h we landed safe in Istanbul. Very nice approach, self made in formation, around the whole city, direct very uncomplicated into Atatürk Int´l. Just after landing refueling and parking the planes in a nice hangar beside a Falcon2000.
Sorry for not having pictures from today, the WLAN here in the hotel is just not working good enough, some problems to get the pix online. I will try to upload them tomorrow from Amman.
Our planned route is due to weather again, from Istanbul to Antalya, then nonstop Antalya-Cyprus-Israel-Amman. It´ll be a long way, and the most difficult during our trip for us tomorrow. Again very high mountains here in Turkey.
More informations as soon as possible.
Best from both of us
Matthias + Hannes
