Cross channel flying is great fun – you can’t beat a stroll on the beach followed by a nice lunch at Le Touquet or fresh sea food at Oostende. Your aircraft does not know whether it is over land or water, nor does it know which country it’s in. But you need to know!
In a cross-channel check out, we will provide a briefing and then fly with you to your chosen destination and back. There are a few more formalities to be observed when flying out of or back to the UK. We will cover filing a flight plan, requesting Customs and PPR at the destination, filling out the GAR form required by Border Force, and how to get weather and other practical information on the continent. If you are already familiar with these, you can find handy links on the Planning Tools page.
Some practices in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands are different to our own, the most important of which is how to join the circuit. Although you can rely on speaking English at major airfields, we will provide an elementary knowledge of French and German RT vocabulary, which will help in situational awareness and can be used at the smaller airfields. Where appropriate, we will use navigation aids such as GPS and VOR’s to help reach the destination easily.
Some popular trips are described on the Destinations pages.