Trip to Cannes

Last Week, Sue Virr from the Aéroclub de Limoges, a student of hers and I embarked on a journey to Cannes in the cote d'azur to meet up with another student of Sue's who lives near Cuers.

We spent a few days flying along the fabulous south coast, in and out of the valleys and mountaines with some of the most breath-taking views I have ever seen.

Please click here to see the Cannes Trip photo album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/limogeslimoges/Cannes2009#

Limoges-London-Limoges in a day

Yesterday I embarked on a short trip to England and back in one day.


Thanks to Ryanair's summer schedule providing Limoges with two flights to London Stansted per day I was able to make the trip to England and return to Limoges in less than 10 hours.

My first flight to Stansted left Limoges at 13:30 and after 1 hour and 25 minutes crusing at 34.000ft we landed 20 minutes ahead of schedule where I was invited up into the cockpit to have a look and a talk to the Captin.

I was then embarked on a 4 hour wait as Stansted untill my return flight to Limoges at 19:00.

However the 4 hours flew by in between the shopping, aircraft spotting, etc and I found myself queuing up at gate 47 for my return flight.

Unfortunately apparently due to early ATC restriction the aircraft was late in, however the crew manage an amazing 15 minute turn around and we were soon blasting down the runway.

This time crusing at 28.000ft due to cloud above, after 1 hour and 15 minutes, a sunset descent and aproach we touched down on runway 21 at Limoges.

A fantastic day out with two amazing flights. A big thankyou to the two Ryanair crews!!!!

New Aéroport de Limoges Website

Since the 2nd July 2009 the new website of the Aéroport de Limoges has been operational.

The new website is now full of information on the area ,the economy and of course everthing to do with aviation at Limoges.

http://www.aeroportlimoges.com/

Mirage 2000 at Limoges

The Aéroport de Limoges welcomed a Mirage 2000 this Friday and Saturday to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Aéroclub du Limousin.

The public were allowed to visit the aircraft and the luckiest ones had chance to sit in the cockpit and have everything explained to them by the pilots.

On depature the jet performed a low-level pass at less than 10ft above the runway followed by a vertical climb and finished of by a low-level flyby at full power and vertical climb.

More pictures of the Mirage 2000 can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/limogeslimoges/Mirage2000#

Limoges Control Tower

Today I had the pleasure of visiting the Limoges control tower. It was a truley fantastic experience to see what goes on up here high above the airport while planes takeoff, land and taxi on the ground.

A special thankyou to the controllers for making me feel welcome and for taking the time to explain how everything works and operates.