Back on track

The 2009 season is long time ago behind and the preparation for 2010 are underway.
There will be some nice surprises (I hope ;-D ) and our schedule will be confirmed soon.
As it looks at the moment the season will be very interesting with different kind of events.
To that we will come back in a short while.

And yes, I'm not anymore on road to Slovenia...
Made some stops in Poland, Lithuania, Finland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech, Austria, France, UK, Germany and Sweden in between last post and now. And I guess there was something more but who counts.

Now in Finland and as you can see we have snow and cold weather and there is no knowledge of the greenhouse effect.Thank you Mr K_ _ _ _ _ _ _ for pushing me to make the update :-D

On the road to Slovenia

Only some 45 nm from the final destination Slovenj Gradec I had to stop due to wx.
There was no way that I was able to fly to the final destination in rain and clouds that where on the ground specially when you need to go around a mountain of 5600 feet...
So I stopped at Murska Sobota and waited for better wx which arrived the next morning.
During the whole ferryflight from Finland to Slovenia not even one leg was I able to stay dry. On each leg I was had to go through bad weather and rain, while at Balaton in Hungary just before Murska Sobota I was greeted with some thunderstorms and lightnings...
And yes also on the last leg from Murska Sobota to Slovenj Gradec there was some rains that I had to fly through if I wanted to get there...

Stop at EPKK

When the plane had been shoot (by camera, not down) it was time to change scenery to Slovenia for a training camp.
Second landing at Krakow Poland showed that the world is sometimes small when a Piper from my homefield was found at the same apron.Then you can always ask who has the bigger plane I or LOT?

Photoshoot

Since the plane got an facelift I needed to make a A2A session with my trusted photowizard Mikko Maliniemi.
Here are couple pics for you to see from the session.
And thanks to Viki Korjula for having a steady hand in the photoplane.

Recap from the last 4 weeks...

Have not had time to keep you updated so here is a short recap of what has happend during the last month...
From Ampuriabrava the ferryflight continued to France and Dijon to meet some friends.Unfortunately I was able to witness a crash landing but happily only the plane got hurt.We had a party for Tonio who got he's "wings" in a Stampe and we enjoyed a nice barbeque and yes that's sausage (chirozo to my friends, it's a long story ;-D)
For those who follow jet team displays, they should find two Breitling jet team pilots in the pics.Then back home, no interesting pics from the trip through Germany and Sweden to Finland, sorry...
But we made a facelift on the plane before leaving to Jämi for a trainingcamp with Catherine Maunoury.
More to come soon...

3 are missing this time...

Time to head back home.
In formation with Andy in Peters plane on our way from Madrid to Ampuriabrava.
The Spanish nature looks nice with it's green color at this time of the year BUT in september you can't recognize this to the same place when you fly at the same point...And a closer look at Peters plane.Yes, sometimes the weather is on your side when you make your ferryflight.

David and Goliath

David is a man from Sweden and Goliath is a PBY Catalina from Spain (where Madrid is, correct ecki?).
Now after some years the Catalina will be put to flying condition and after an month or two the plane should be ready for the ferry trip to it's future homebase at Linkoping, Sweden.The hoses will be replaced (I saw one from January 1962) and midlife engines will be installed for the ferry flight while the new ones are waiting back home.
In my opinion planes like this should be flying so all the best for David, hopefully the weather favours along the French coastline on the trip home.