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Here's a new trip writeup on a recent trip to Elba and the subsequent trip to Greece, going as far as the tiny island of Kastelorizo

http://peter2000.co.uk/aviation/elba-greece

The videos still need to be done; that will take me some days

Most of it was done under IFR, with a couple of short low level legs in Greece under VFR.

The first 2 flight videos:

Video Shoreham to Elba


Video Elba to Brac, across Italy.

Nice to have you drop in to see us Peter!

Gosh I didn't know you had a house in Greece, Mike

This is the last video from the trip to Elba and Greece.
Kastelorizo LGKJ to Ioanina LGIO (fuel stop) to Brac LDSB.
Spectacular 0400 UTC sunrise departure from Kastelorizo.

What an incredible write-up, thanks for making the last hour at work interesting! Very intimidating for a newbie to think of the expense + experience taken to get to this level. I guess it is a 10 year dream, but great for people like yourself to have done all of the hard work in plotting the routes etc. Thank you for sharing!

Extremely interesting as always, thanks for sharing! I find these hugely useful in planning my own trip ideas once I bring the airplane over to Europe next year. Maybe we can meet up somewhere!

I am sure I met you at Shoreham, about 10 years ago.

Alex - this is not hard at all. The 2nd trip here
http://peter2000.co.uk/aviation/
Crete, Sep 2004, all VFR, and similar distance.

Today it is a lot easier than back then because now you have good tablet nav apps (EasyVFR and SD) which avoid the hassles I had with scanning old USAF ONC maps and loading them onto a heavy 1.5" thick tablet weighing about 3kg

The flying is the same as anywhere else - the plane doesn't know the difference

The extra dimension is that Fraport of Germany has taken over some airports which used to be cheap and easy, but there are still ways around that, based mainly on Ioanina LGIO. You fly a straightforward VFR trip down to Croatia (perhaps Dubrovnik LDDU) and then to Ioanina. You can't do Greece in a C150, due to range, but a PA28-161 or better is ok.

Yes the avgas bit is never cheap.

But a trip like this is worth twice the price

peterh337 wrote:I am sure I met you at Shoreham, about 10 years ago.

Perhaps somebody else (or somewhere else) - a quick logbook check shows I have yet to make it to Shoreham.

Yes that is indeed true. I went through my emails and it appears we have not met before