A great opportunity seized! Frankfurt is normally extremely busy airspace. The takeoff location of Elz is about 70k NW of FRA. Jim
________________________________ From: Simon Hackett <[email protected]> To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, April 17, 2010 4:44:17 AM Subject: [Aus-soaring] Thermalling over a european major airport >From the Stemme owners group list. There are no jets flying in Europe... and with a problem like that, comes an opportunity... ... a perspective not normally available in a normally busy airspace. Very cool stuff. Imagine doing that over Sydney International. There's a video link in there too. Simon Begin forwarded message: From: Hanns-H.Lisy <[email protected]> > >Date: 17 April 2010 5:58:21 PM ACST > >To: Stemme Owners Group <[email protected]> > >Subject: [sog] Stemme D-KVTX using the Ashcloud Thermals over Rhein/Main > >Reply-To: Stemme Owners Group <[email protected]> > > >Hi, > >yesterday we took advantage of the closure of German Airspace due to the >Ashcloud of the islandic volcano. > >I put a little video in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17clkkKyIwc > >Diddy (Hanns-H. Lisy) > >D-KVTX >out of ELZ (EDFY) >
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