Flying a light aircraft to Spain - IFR

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Flying a light aircraft to Spain - IFR

By ConcordeBA
-  Fri Nov 04, 2022 12:25 pm #1937233
This was an experience that would take some beating. Flying a light aircraft from the UK to the Costa Brava in Spain in challenging flying conditions and into the Pyrenees at night. It felt akin to being an airliner, with ATC slots, change of plans and a significant amount of thought and pre-planning.

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Staying nearby we visited Barcelona for the day, this was a special trip and will go down as one of the best I’ve ever completed, with probably the longest flight time I’ll ever fly in this aircraft. The adventure didn’t end there, we almost diverted on our flight to the UK due to severe weather/thunderstorms forming right in front of our very eyes.

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With the restrictions in the UK almost gone for over a year, and most of Europe now fully open my head turned towards a long-distance flight, with the original destination planned as San Sebastian or Bilbao.

Initially, my planning was for April, however, due to the weather and some restrictions in France and Spain, I elected to wait it out till May and enjoy better weather, and a return to Barcelona having not visited in many years.

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This also meant I had a passenger for the trip and so we looked at the planning together with Ryan concentrating on the location of our stay for the weekend including any transfers that would be required, allowing me to put all my efforts into the flying and the determination to fly it wholly IFR. I’d never flown to Spain and was very keen to do this trip before making the big journey to Ibiza which incidentally was originally scheduled to take place this weekend. This trip had now been moved again till August, as the party season begins in the later part of May.

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