Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:29 pm
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What a friendly and helpful bunch of folk at Cherbourg Maupertus!
Edith and her husband who run the shop and restaurant and speak perfect English; Alain and his ATC team; the friendly fire team who may come to greet you in their great big shiny red fire truck; Francois who runs a twin charter to the UK, Channel Islands and Europe. Francois and the good folk from the aero club who put me in contact with Claude. Claude Robert from Caen who trekked out by road, two days on the trot, to resolve my a/c technical issues. Thank you guys for all your help!
For those who have not been, Cherbourg is about 30 minutes flying time (in an old tin bucket) from the IoW and has a whacking long hard runway. It has great facilities, all of which in the UK would sadly be turned into thousands of matchbox houses...
The only word of caution I have is this. Make sure that you have no loose wires before you set off, or better still, none break in flight!
Edith and her husband who run the shop and restaurant and speak perfect English; Alain and his ATC team; the friendly fire team who may come to greet you in their great big shiny red fire truck; Francois who runs a twin charter to the UK, Channel Islands and Europe. Francois and the good folk from the aero club who put me in contact with Claude. Claude Robert from Caen who trekked out by road, two days on the trot, to resolve my a/c technical issues. Thank you guys for all your help!
For those who have not been, Cherbourg is about 30 minutes flying time (in an old tin bucket) from the IoW and has a whacking long hard runway. It has great facilities, all of which in the UK would sadly be turned into thousands of matchbox houses...
The only word of caution I have is this. Make sure that you have no loose wires before you set off, or better still, none break in flight!