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Anyone found their way to Friedrichshafen from UK in VMC yet this week?

Hoping for an improvement before our planned Thursday morning departure... please.

I gave up and came down commercial. It’s pants at this end as well. Good luck

Pete

We gave up and have driven... waiting for Charliesixtysix to appear so may be at the show Thursday or Friday

Normally, I'd fly down on the Thursday in perfect blue skies and today would have largely been no exception by the look of it.

Iceman

I made my way to the east of France yesterday. Had to divert and landed in LFQW due to bad weather. Hoping for some better weather today. Its blue skies in the east of France this morning but just across the border past Basel is very much IMC. Taking a more northerly route could be better as most airfields further north are VFR.

Iceman wrote:Normally, I'd fly down on the Thursday in perfect blue skies and today would have largely been no exception by the look of it.

Iceman

It wasn’t

I finally made it. I was VFR on top most of the way at FL85 and had to divert around 10nm north to find a gap in the cloud. Base was at 3400ft. Landed at Leutkirch. Took a bus and a train to Friedrichshafen.

Enjoy the show guys,. From Flyer's news emails, it looks to be an interesting show.

Iceman

Back home from another great Aero show - and really nice to meet up with lots for mates at various points over the three days.

Flight down was very easy on Thursday with clear sky until 20 miles out when a bit of routing around clouds was required for descent to Konstanz.

Coming home today was a bit more of a faff with low cloud and poorer vis over the high ground for the first hour to about Nancy but then opened up to a lovely cumulus filled sky and great visibility for next 350 miles home.

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