PPL IR Europe AC 2024

Introduction –

PPL IR Event/AC 2024

The Plan –

Fly Friday/Back Sunday/Share with Owner of GZANY

Airport Choices –

Hamburg Fly in

Handling/Airport Quotations –

Pre-arranged via PPL IR

Slot via ACL

Accommodation –

Pre-arranged via PPL IR Motel One Hotel

Weather Forecast –

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Flight to Hamburg –

Pret Coffee

Tube Journey

Light breakfast at Stapleford

Prep aircraft

Departure and climb above weather (Bumpy)

FL150 all the way across the North Sea

Nice tailwind/Weather clearing

Vanessas homemade lunch

Route direct RIBSO

Turbulence possible (Severe?)

RNP setup and approach briefed

TCu starting to build (Summer)

Lots of PPL IR Traffic

Ramp (Forgot chocks) fuel added (Not enough)

Taxi to GAT

Passport check then walk.

ATC Flight plan and route flown –

PPL/IR Europe Annual Conference 2024 –

Meet & Greet airside

Walk from airport to hotel, short walk and no point in taxi

Check in Hotel

Bar for one

Walk to Raddison for meet & Greet/meal

Hamburg Airbus Inbound

Buffet Style Dinner

Beers

Walk to Airport for Coffee (Starbucks)

Breakouts

Presenter Role @ Radisson Blu WEAT: Weather Forecasting and Management for Pilots – a session dedicated to understanding Skew-T diagrams, weather fronts and patterns, forecasting tools, and strategies for managing unexpected weather changes during IFR flights.

• 09.00 Registration opens.
• 10.00 we take our seats for the Chairman’s Opening Welcome
• 10.30 One Pilot’s Flying Experience – hear one pilot’s forty years experiences as a pilot, an aircraft owner, the many aviation-related companies he has owned, his personal airstrip, becoming an instructor, an examiner, and so much more.
• 11.00 Hear the latest updates from EASA and the CAA, relevant to the European Private Pilot.
• 11.30 Breakout Session One – a similar format to last year, though one hour for each one this time – please see below.
• 12.30 Lunch, teas, coffees and soft drinks are included in the price and an opportunity to spend time with fellow pilots.
• 13.30 Breakout Session Two – a similar format to last year, though one hour for each one this time – please see below.
• 14.30 Teas, coffees and soft drinks are included in the price and an opportunity to spend time with fellow pilots.
• 15.00 Breakout Session Three – a similar format to last year, though one hour for each one this time – please see below.
• 16.00 Breakout Session Four – a similar format to last year, though one hour for each one this time – please see below.
• 17.00 Closing remarks

Curry for lunch

Beer in lobby

Head into town for meal via metro

Dinner

• Stay for dinner at 7pm at Restaurant Schifferboerse in central Hamburg 

Long walk for Breakfast

Back to the airport

Fly home Sunday 30th June (First as Passenger for IFR in GZANY_

Weather Forecast (Return flight) –

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Flight to UK –

Weather awful/Drizzle/Wet Runway

Multiple layers to climb through

More fuel required

Leaving the front behind

Navigating weather near Amsterdam/Lots of vectors

IMC over North Sea/Bumpy/Weather Radar showing precip

Some Ice in Solid IMC/convective looking tops/frontal

Descent into UK

Red Arrows Southend

Extreme Turbulence momentarily

Landed/Refuel

ATC Flight plan and route flown –

Outcome & Costs –

Airport Costs –

The final bill was split into the following;

Hamburg Fees

Total costs were (Paid by AerOps);

• Landing – 13.16 EUR
• Entry – 13.16 EUR
• Terminal – 16.70 EUR
• Emissions Landing 0.36 EUR
• Emissions Entry – 0.36 EUR
• Parking Fee (Per 15 min) x127 (0.50 EUR) – 63.50 EUR
• Transport between GAT and Aircraft x2 – 52.60 EUR

Sub-Total: €159.84 (£xxx.xx)

Total Costs Hamburg Airport: €xxx.xx (£xxx.xx)

Jet A1 Uplift: €xxx.xx (£xxx.xx (xx Litres) @£x.xx (2.23 EUR) litre

Sub-Total: £xxx.xx

Hamburg Costs –

Food, Drink, & Leisure Costs: £

Accommodation Costs: £ per night per person

Total Accommodation Costs: £ (Room – £xxx.xx)

Travel Costs: £ each way (Est) – €xxx.xx

Sub-Total: £xxxx.xx

Flying Costs –

Aircraft Charges: £579.50 (@ £183 per hour (3 hours 10 minutes flown)) – Does not include return sector

Airport Fees: £xxx.xx (As above)

Oxygen Refill – £xx.xx

JetA1: £

(Wet Rate drawback) Credited £250.44 (-) (GZANY) (267 litres at EGSG rate) xxx

Total Cost –

Total Costs (Non-Aviation): £xxxx.xx

Total Costs (Aviation): £xxxx.xx

Total Costs (All): £xxxx.xx

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Aircraft –

The aircraft is a DA40 TDI, which uses a Thielert “Centurion” 135 hp (101 kW) diesel engine and burns diesel or jet fuel. It has a constant-speed propeller and FADEC (single lever) engine control. G-ZANY is based at Stapleford Aerodrome, Essex, UK and was delivered as new in 2003. 

Read more about the aircraft on the dedicated page

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