Information about Hans Guttmann Tourist Rally 2017

Information about Hans Guttmann Tourist Rally 2017

Hans Gutmann Tourist rally 2017

The 2017 rally, MID SUMMER NIGHTS, will take place in June 2017, from 15th to 25th June. This year the rally route is going to be via the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, culminating in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

1) Route changes 

We've decided to drop Minsk from our route (no capacity, high fees)

The new route will be: 

ELLX Luxembourg > EKAH Aarhus > ENZV Stavanger / ENBR Bergen (fuel stop) > ENBO Bodo > EFVA Vaasa (fuel stop) > EFHF Helsinki-Malmi  > (ULLI Pulkovo) > EETN Tallinn > EEKE Saarema > EYKA/EYKS Kaunas > EPGD Gdansk

Our schedule is as follows:

15/6 land at EKAH Aarhus, stay overnight, have an opening dinner

16/6 depart EKAH, fly via ENZV Stavanger/ENBR Bergen (fuel stop), land at Bodo ENBO, stay overnight

17/6 depart ENBO, fly via EFVA Vaasa (fuel stop), land at EFHF Helsinki-Malmi, stay overnight

18/7 depart EFHF, land at ULLU Pulkovo Saint Petersburg // alternative: take a high speed train from Helsinki to Saint Petersburg, stay overnight

19/7 full day in Saint Petersburg

20/7 full day in Saint Petersburg

21/7 depart ULLI, land at EETN Tallinn // alternative: take a high speed train from Saint Petersburg to Helsinki, depart EFHF, land at EETN Tallinn, stay overnight

22/7 depart EETN, land at EEKE Saarema, stay overnight

23/7 depart EEKE, land at EYKS/EYKA Kaunas, stay overnight

24/7 depart EYKS/EYKA, land at EPGD Gdanks, stay overnight, have a closing dinner

25/7 depart EPGD

2) For budget estimation purposes, the approximate fees in airports (for Cessna 172/182 class aircraft), not including any taxes 

- EKAH Aarhus: landing fee ~€22, parking ~€10/night, avgas ~€2.2/l

- Airports in Norway: landing fee ~€25, parking ~€20/night, avgas ~€1.7/l

- Airports in Finland: landing fee ~€30, parking ~€10/night, avgas ~€2.5/l

- ULLI Pulkovo: TBD. the official published handling fee is ~€190

- Airports in Estonia: landing fee ~€30, parking ~€20/night, avgas ~€2.7/l

- Kaunas: TBD

- Gdansk: landing fee ~€20, parking ~€10, avgas ~€1.4/l

3) Saint Petersburg & Russian Visa

We are still waiting the confirmation of availability of slots in Pulkovo. They have received our offical request and reviewing it, we are expecting to get a confirmation or refusal in the following week or two.

For our two days stay in Saint Petersburg, we consider organizing group tours to:

A) The Peterhof Palace (aka the "Russian Versailles"), the imperial palace of Peter the Great.

B) Tsarskoe selo & Catherine Palace, the summer residence of the Russian tsars.

For the Russian visa, every participant has to apply to the Russian embassy or consulate in the country of his/her residence. The invitation (aka the visa support letter) from a hotel or a tour agency is required. To facilitate this process, we've engaged an accredited tour agency in Saint Petersburg which will provide the required visa support letters. As soon as we receive completed inscription forms (see below) we will request the agency to issue visa support letters.

4) Registration form and inscrption fee

Please email to info@hansgutmannrally.eu for more details

An inscription fee of €250 per crew is to be paid to the Organizing Committee to confirm the registration. A discount of €50 is provided if the crew agrees to put a removable sticker with the rally logo on the airplane.

Included in the inscription fee:

- Services of organization team

- Russian visa support letter fee (if done via the Organizing Committee)

- Participants badges 

- Ground transportation in Aarhus (shuttle for the group from airport), Saint Petersburg (shuttle from airport/train station to hotel and from hotel/train station to airport), Tallinn, Kaunas, Gdansk

The payment should be done by transfer to the Organizing Committee bank account (will be provided soon).

Organisation team 2017 : Jean Birgen - Mike Kornev - Artem Kirillov