It's even more different thant Stephen describes. I've flown a season in
Braunschweig and at that time activities there included:
3 gliding clubs, each one of them operating a two drum winch, occasional
aerotow
Akaflieg Braunschweig, operating winch and aerotow
A very active parachuting club, operating same days as the others
Reasonable number of general aviation traffic
Jet traffic, albeit business at that time only, not RPT.
At least one of the three clubs was a very active cross country club and not
circuit bashers at all.
All of that within 5 miles of the no fly, shoot first, ask later ADIZ along
the former iron curtain.
The time was 1993, just when the Berlin Wall came down and I believe one of
the 3 gliding clubs has left the Braunschweig aerodrome since and now
operates closer to their home town, Berlin.
Rolf
From: "Kittel, Stephen W (ETSA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in
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To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in
Australia."<[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Gliding at major airports
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 07:33:28 +1030
Yes, it is possible to do it differently.
When I visited the Akafleig Braunschweig I found that their workshop and
hangar are in one corner (albeit out of the way) of the Braunschweig
airport. The Akafleig aerotow, and I think, winch off the aerodrome, but
not off the runways. The stuff that boggled me though, was that
Braunschweig is the capital of Lower Saxony, a state of between 1 and 2
million people, so very comparable to, say, Adelaide. The airport has a
control tower on top of a big two storey terminal building (including
restaurant). The offices of the German airministry (LBA) and also their
equivalent of our ATSB are on the edge of the aerodrome. I don't know what
the actual movement numbers were but I was told they did include big jets.
Very comparable to the smaller Australian capital city airports.
Regards
SWK
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leigh Bunting
>
>Imagine doing this at Tullamarine or one of the other major
>airports in Australia. The regulators and security people
>would have a right royal hissy-fit. But it happens elsewhere -
>but that's in the northern hemisphere. Things like this and
>high-tow just don't work in the southern hemisphere, do they ........
>
>Below is part of a communication with a German glider pilot, I've been
>having:
>
>"We fly at the internatiol Airport Münster-Osnabrück (FMO)
>because we were there first, and a part of this is oure own
>ground. In the time the Airport was build (growing from the
>airfield of the "Luftfahrtvereinigung Greven") they made an
>agreement that if there whould be to many jet traffic the
>airportmanagement has to find and to give us a new airfield
>for oure own, ready and licensed for sports flying.
>
>They didn´t find one......."
>
>--
>Leigh Bunting
>
>
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