Other planes from the air on the Czech rally

I had hoped to get a photo of each of the other planes from the air during the rally, as it's rare that you get a photo of your plane from the air, but of course that wasn't possible.  Here are a few though!

The lovely Symon

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And back again to idylically located Frydlant flying club

Czech-Polish air rally

We had great fun flying to 5 destinations on the Saturday and here are a few group pictures to commemorate the occasion

Maybe not my favourite beer, but definitely my favourite beer mug!

Renaissance gardens seem to be made to be seen from the sky, which was good as it was a really hot day and despite our best efforts we didn't manage to walk there...

We went past dozens of castles.

scenic routes around the area of one of our landing spots, if only we'd had more time!

Everyone warming up to leave our last landing

Polish flying rally to the Czech republic

At Kikity Syzgi told us that he was leading a weekend rally from Katowice to the Czech republic, so after a few moments' consideration we decided to miss the Elblag canal and our other plans for western Poland and go with them.

Katowice town

oops we forgot it was a landing competition until we saw the yellow markings

The rally started from Katowice a big industrial town, where we met to have some Polish specialties for lunch. After we'd eaten Jakob kindly explained what was in it :-(  Nah I don't mind some blood sausage or fermented soup.

An action packed pre rally briefing.

First stop, beautiful Frydlant in the Czech hills

Orienteering of the air in Neu Brandenburg

The joint military / civil airstrip of Neu Brandenburg

We were really happy when we discovered that there was an air rally in Neu Brandenburg on the weekend of the 9 - 12 May, right on our way to Denmark.
So naturally we asked whether we could camp on the airfield, which caused considerable consternation, it being a shared military / commercial air transport airfield.
Anyway everything ended up working out much better than just camping: Wolf a former DDR Mig pilot invited us to stay with him and his lovely wife, Silke.

This was not just a great opportunity to get to know some really lovely people, it had the added benefit (for us) of giving us an insight into the military and the DDR.
We felt a little unprepared for the competition, as we didn't have all the necessary equipment to do the course calculations etc., luckily we chose to join the tourist class! Next time we'll join the real competition. Though I don't know that I like our chances against all the ex-fighter and commercial pilots.

Precision landing box

 Anyway an excellent time was had by all, and we met a lot of interesting pilots at the gala dinner who had travelled to all sorts of places and gave us some good tips on travelling to the relatively uncharted East...
Did I mention that we won our class, I was so pleased!

Julian getting ready to test ride Wolf's 50s Czech motorbike...