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After cancelling Hamburg in April, it was time to plan the first big trip of the year. Whilst originally we would repeat last year’s trip to Prague & Erlangen, we would extend this year’s adventure to Košice, Slovakia.

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I’d also purchased a new oxygen system (more on this soon), which would enable 40 hours of endurance, roughly 20.5 hours per person with the EDS system. On a full bottle, this meant we could comfortably fly at the highest levels for the whole trip if needed.

Comfortably the forecast for this whole trip was benign, with the fine and settled weather stretched across Europe since early May. The only notable weather was the heat storms building over the Tatra Mountains and towards Hungary, including a humungous cell well south of our route. But this time we had the endurance of both fuel and oxygen to make massive deviations to get to our final destination, Košice – roughly 76 km (47 miles/40.84 nautical miles) from the nearest city Uzhhorod on the Ukrainian Border.

One of the most adventurous trips I’ve done to date, flying to the far eastern border of Europe, near the edge of a war zone. Flying across Slovakia’s mostly mountainous territory and revisiting a favourite location, Erlangen for the berg. This trip was a memorable experience and many miles were flown, and it was great to complete the furthest distance I’d ever flown. This trip gave me the overview effect – the appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other people and the Earth as a whole. This was just the start of a big flying year using my Instrument Rating, and this was just the start.

Read more in the blog: https://www.theflyingvlog.uk/a-thousand-mile-journey-to-the-edge-of-europe/

Trip to the edge of Europe



Trip to Erlangen and home

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