An Aéro-Sport classic: discovery of the champaign region 2016 edition

Aéro-sport cordially invites you and your family to the WEEKEND DISCOVERY TOUR OF FRENCH CHAMPAGNE REGION on June 10th - 12th 2016

Luxembourg - Troyes (LFQB) - La Ferté Alais (LFFQ) - Luxembourg (352NM)

SCHEDULE

Tuesday June 7th^th  

7pm                      Pre tour briefing at the Aéro-Sport clubhouse organised by Jean Birgen

Friday June 10^th  

6pm                      Departure Team A: ELLX to Troyes (LFQB)                            
                              Check-in at your hotel

                              Group dinner at Grand Tulip Hotel adjacent to the Troyes airfield

Saturday June 11th

8am                      Departure Team B: ELLX to Troyes (LFQB)

10.30am               Visit historical sites of Troyes or shopping at outlet store McArthurGlen

2pm                      Departure Team C: ELLX to Troyes (LFQB)

6pm                      All teams will be picked up at the listed hotels and will be transported per bus to the PENOT winery for champaign tasting, followed by a dinner graciouslu offered by Martine and Claude PENOT.

12pm                    Return by bus to hotel

Sunday June 12th

7am                      Weather update & swimming pool

9am                      Breakfast

10.30am               Departure all teams for La Ferté Alais (LFFQ)
                            Beware ! – landing at LFFQ only with written autorisation in advance

1pm                      Lunch

3pm                      Visit of the flying museum of the Jean Salis association

6pm                      Departure for ELLX

Additional information

Jean Birgen selected three hotels at your best convenience

• Golden Tulip (64,00€)
• Hôtel Première Classe (55,00€)
• F1 Hotel (27,00€)

Here under are some details, pictures and video-clips from the 2015 edition, which was a great one (more than 40 participants). If you like to join, please send an email to info@aerosport.lu

pilots briefing

ready for take off

Landing at Troyes airport ( in a Robin) ,looks as this

The swimming pool of the Grand Tulip hotel, Troyes

On Saturday morning, you either either visit the historical town of Troyes with its abundant cultural heritage such as the following highlights:

·        The St-Madeleine church with its stained glass windows

·        Maison de l'Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere : Superb display of tools….artistic, aesthetic…a must to see! Allows the visitor to experience and understand the work and lives of carpenters, masons, etc

·        Modern Art Museum: The museum has a wide-ranging and very worthwhile collection of many schools and artists, all housed in a historic building 

·        Apothicairerie de l'hotel Dieu le Conte : lovely 18th century apothecary

Alternatively, you can also opt to find your favourite designer brands at reduced prices, all year round at outlet store McArthurGlen Troyes (110 stores offering a selection of 300 brands). 

Saturday evening at 6pm, we’ll pick you up at either the Golden Tulip Hotel or the Fast Hotel and you will be driven by bus to the village of Ville-sur-Arce where the PENOT family invites us for an evening of fellowship at the Champaign winery of Martine and Claude PENOT with Champaign tasting “à go-go”. There are long lasting friendship ties with the PENOT family and Luxembourg. Claude PENOT is besides being a wine maker, also the Mayor of Ville-s-Arc, pilot and honorary president of the FNA.

Claude PENOT - blanc de blanc

On Sunday morning, you’ll have the chance to discover the private Ferté Alais (LFFQ) aerodrome, which has a restricted use policy. We will be welcomed in person by Jean SALIS, the lunch will be served at the restaurant of the flying museum of the Jean Salis association at la Ferté-Alais where you’ll meet the pilots of this association for a social talk.

 the flying museum of the Jean Salis association

Ferté Alais

flyer Georgia

We now have finished a flyer about our upcoming rally to Georgia this August, as we've found a solution for getting Avgas in Turkey and (most likely) in Georgia as well.

One pager

The young pilots of Luxembourg

The "Yound Pilots" of Aéro-Sport have been participating at an intl. trainings camp in Southern Germany (Donaueschingen) setup by the Swiss Precision Flyer team. Our young pilots have been partcipating at the so called AIR NAVIGATION RACE

Other teams participating were coming from Switzerland, the Netherlands, Finland and Austria. All together there were 16 teams of which the German, Finnish and Dutch teams have been participating last year at the "World Air Games"

Aéro-Sport is quite please with the obtained results, the more if you consider it has been the first time they ahve been participating at this event

The winners of the AIR NAVIGATION RACE were Thomas Kirchner and Kalle Bender on a Cessna 152. The Aéro-Sport delegation achieved:

       2.  Klosen Gilles / Holweck Mathy on a Cessna 172 SP,

       6.  Schneider Laurent / Schumacher Gilleson on a Cessna 172,

      11. Muno David / Desonniaux Tom on a Cessna 172 SP.      

Whilst our young pilots were training and trying to participate in the competition, they got support from a 12 plane delegation coming over from Luxembourg. The Luxembourg delegation also visited the beautifull island of Maineu on Lake Constance

Our young pilots will participate at the Swiss Open contest in precision flying and at the ANR in Biel. One of our teams will also attend between July 16 and 31 the HOP Air rally for young pilots throughout France.

Luxembourg may be a small sized country, but delivering many international pilots.

Young pilots of Aéro-Sport

English language proficiency tests

Please note that the next English language proficiency tests (up to level 6) will take place at LFTA premises on May 19th. Candidates must hold/have held a previous English level proficiency, before being allowed for this test (DAC restriction). If you are interested please let us know at info@aerosport.lu

English language proficiency tests

UPL-AOPA Nav refresher May 28th

UPL-AOPA presents its yearly NAV refresher, which is held at May 28th this year to which Aéro-Sport pilots are cordially invited to participate.

The Navigation - Refresher, which is also a fly-out,  offers an opportunity for all pilots to improve their knowledge in preparation and realization of navigation flights. 

Especially pilots, who got their licence recently,  hereby get the chance to acquire more experience, routine and confidence in navigation flights by flying in a team with more experienced pilots. 

Flight instructors are available for student pilots who want to participate.

Three legs will be flown, meaning that each pilot has the chance to fly one leg as PIC. (with three pilots aboard per plane)

Routing

• ELLX – EDTM ( Mengen) 150 NM
• EDTM – EDEW ( Walldürn ) 140 NM
• EDEW – ELLX 130 NM 

2016 route NAV refresher UPL-AOPA

Scheduled briefings:

• Thursday May 26th at 7pm at Aéro-Sport at Luxembourg airport
• Friday May 27th at 7m at Aéro-Sport at Luxembourg airport

Time schedule

• 08 am  Breakfast with ATC and weather briefing at Aéro-Sport at Luxembourg airport
• 09.30 am Departure ( Findel; Zouftgen; Sterpenich )
• Between 11.15 and 12am Arrival Mengen - EDTM
• PIC – change
• Lunch
• appr. 2pm departure from Mengen - EDTM
• 3.30pm - 4pm : arrival Walldürn - EDEW
• PIC – change
• appr. 5pm departure Walldürn
• between 6.30pm and 7.15pm arrival Luxembourg ( Findel; Zoufftgen; Sterpenich Followed by debriefing and finger food ( Findel Aéro-Sport )

Registration by email to info@upl-aopa.lu or bfrechen@pt.lu  mentioning the following information per person who participates in your team

• First and last name 
• Email and phone
• Are you a pilot: Y/N
• Are you member of UPL-AOPA: Y/N
• Type of Aircraft
• Call-sign
• Speed in kts
• Departure in ELLX or Zoufftgen or Sterpenich                            

You can also participate as individual pilot, without having a crew. The organisation team will assign you to one of the existing pilot crews. Just mention in your email to the organisation that this is what you're looking for.