The friendly airfield
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- Published on Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:48
To stay current you have to practice. That is what I tried to do with a IFR flight from EHTW (Twente) to EDDG (Münster/Osnabrück/FMO). The flight is very challenging, it’s a short flight and it can push you in a high work load situation. After take off from Twente I activated the IFR flight with Dutch Mill at the 030 Radial 10 DME from Rekken.
The route which I was choosing was RKN (Rekken VOR), Soneb and than via radar vectors to the field for an ILS 25 approach. Because of the traffic load at EDDG I had to do a hi speed approach. A Boeing 737 of Air Berlin was breathing on my six. My final approach speed was 130kts, so to say no time to waste. After a coffee break and paying a lousy euro 6,91 for the landing fee to a friendly employe (even with the runway lighting on) and headed back to my home field via the RKN1C departure. Normally when do this flight at EHGG (Groningen) it will cost you more than one hundred euros. Fifty euro’s for the landing fee and additionally sixty-five euro’s for the runway lighting. I must say EDDG is one of my favorite fields !