To the Belgian coast: follow-me car at Oostende-Brugge (EBOS) and a direct short final at a lit EBCI
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- See description below (with timestamps at the bottom).
Weather:
METAR EBCI 121350Z 24009KT 220V290 9999 FEW030 18/11 Q1031 NOSIG
METAR EBCI 121420Z 24012KT 9999 FEW033 20/12 Q1031 NOSIG
METAR EBOS 121420Z 25015KT 9999 FEW032 20/12 Q1030 NOSIG
METAR EBOS 121450Z 25013KT 9999 FEW032 20/12 Q1030 NOSIG
METAR EBOS 121520Z 23014KT 9999 FEW032 19/11 Q1030 NOSIG
METAR EBOS 121720Z 23011KT 9999 FEW032 18/11 Q1029 NOSIG
METAR EBOS 121750Z 22010KT 9999 FEW032 17/11 Q1029 NOSIG
METAR EBCI 121820Z 21008KT CAVOK 17/11 Q1030 NOSIG
METAR EBCI 121850Z 21007KT CAVOK 17/11 Q1030 NOSIG
Description:
For the first T-shirt weather flight of 2024 I decided to visit Oostende-Brugge (EBOS). This was the only international airport in Belgium where I have not had a visit before, and during the previous months the runway and most taxiways got resurfaced, so it was time to go! Furthermore, I have NEVER flown over the Belgian coast before, which is almost unbelievable with "so many" hours in my logbook.
The flight there was pretty uneventful, the landing all right, but I very much enjoyed taxiing behind a follow-me car to my parking spot on the apron in Oostende (which was also a first in my pilot career). I knew that visiting aircraft get this treatment here, so I was looking forward to it, and it was as cool as imagined ;)
After a long chat with the friendly ground personnel, I walked across the dunes and along the coast to the new casino building in Middelkerke and back, enjoying the warm weather.
On my way back to base I flew along the coast to Blankenberge, then took the shortest way towards Charleroi - passing over the historic city of Bruges. At EBCI I got to race (and defeat) a Ryanair to land after a direct - very - short final, and vacate to the left already at Sierra 4 (the first exit to the left), which I don't think I have ever done before (or maybe with an instructor very early in a Sonaca 200, but I am not sure).
After all it was again a flight of a lot of firsts: landing at EBOS, follow-me car, flying along the coast, and direct short final followed by an expedited runway exit at S4. It was a fun afternoon, enjoy the video record of it!
00:00 Start-up and requesting taxi from EBCI Ground
01:17 Ready for departure at S4 (waiting for a WizzAir to land)
01:45 Line-up and wait RWY 24
02:12 Take-off EBCI RWY 24
02:50 Vacating the axis (traffic behind) and after take-off flow
03:12 Leaving the CTR overhead NW and checking in with Brussels Information
03:57 Preparing frequencies (staying ahead of the airplane)
04:06 Traffic information from Brussels FIS (overhead The Sloping Lock of Ronquières)
04:35 Welcome message and in-flight briefing for today
05:05 Geraardsbergen area
05:41 Arrival briefing for EBOS
06:05 Listening to (inaudible, via Bluetooth) the ATIS of EBOS and briefing it out loud
06:53 Contacting Oostende Approach (Zendstation Egem visible on the wing view)
07:44 Approaching TURUT and then direct to the field (via GESPO)
07:58 Hand-over to EBOS Tower (small phraseology mistake: not reading back the zero...)
08:47 Starting to configure the aircraft for landing (direct left base)
09:06 Beginning of left base - continue approach
09:46 Before landing checks and turning final
10:18 Cleared to land - followed by some turbulence on final
10:58 Landing EBOS RWY 26
10:24 Instructions to vacate the runway to D1
11:50 Hand-over to EBOS GND for taxi instructions
12:24 After landing flow and taxi to Apron 3
13:25 Follow-me car!
13:50 Marshaller guidance and my first hand signal ever (brakes set)
14:09 Shut-down
14:22 Listening to the ATIS before departure back to Charleroi (seagulls in the background)
14:37 Requesting start-up from EBOS GND (via handheld to save the batteries)
15:00 Engine start (and some after start and before taxi checks)
15:25 Requesting taxi from EBOS GND
15:49 Taxi to holding point C1 RWY 26
17:13 Ready for departure (hand-off to TWR)
17:37 Cleared for take-off and the requested routing after departure
18:10 Take-off EBOS RWY 24
18:44 After take-off flow and turning to follow the coast with great views back to the field
19:23 Hand-over to EBOS APP
20:00 Views of Oostende city (and other places along the Belgian coast)
20:34 Blankenberge and turning towards Brugge
21:13 Views of Brugge
21:53 Leaving the TMA of Oostende (contact with Brussels FIS not shown)
22:04 Some immediate debriefing of the visit
22:21 Abeam Ursel (EBUL)
22:43 Thinking about how much time flying can take (especially with cameras and so...)
23:18 Requesting landing instructions from EBCI Tower
23:42 Spotting the arriving Ryanair that is about to be Number 2 behind me ;)
24:02 Direct short final
24:55 Cleared to land and expedite vacating
25:13 A very unusual view from "base"
25:31 Turning very short final (with passenger terminal views)
26:07 Landing EBCI RWY 24
26:31 Vacating the runway - taxi approved by friendly controller :)
26:56 After landing flow and taxi in with a wing view of the just landed Ryanair
27:25 Short debrief
I was your controller that day. Thanks again for your perfect short landing 😉 I hope I didn't put too much pressure on you, don't hesitate to protest if you are uncomfortable with our requests. But you managed very well. Talk to you soon !
So great to have you here too! It is a privilege to be given such a special attention in the Belgian airspace, and being called by name never gets old, it always feels special! So thank you and everybody at EBCI and Brussels FIS. And "negative" and "unable" are in my dictionary too, no problem, but I am always up for something new (within safe limits of course). 😎
Another excellent video! Learning many things from your vids as a novice just venturing out into cross-country flying from EDKA.
Thanks Caspian!
tomorrow I will go with my instructor to EBOS 😬 thanks for the procedures and familiarization of the field.
Enjoy the flight! Should be easy now that you know what to expect 👌
Thanks for the vids ! Keep them coming 👨✈️✈️
Cheers!
The unexpected short final is fun and great to land in front of the airliners. I could also land once via a short circuit before an A332 of Egyptair in EBOS .
Yes, definitely a cool experience, especially hearing the controller work to make it all happen for you!
I'm so glad I found this channel! Such wonderfully detailed and professional videos. I'm sticking with my dream of flying myself. Keep it up and thank you very much!
Best regards, Simon
Thanks for watching and I hope you can achieve your dream one day!
Great as usual, Peter ! You did very well with the Ryanair....i could imagine the pilot staring at your plane and already thinking of a go-around ! And the controller did also a great job to allow you to be number one, by asking Ryanair to reduce speed.
Indeed, it was a good team work with ATC, I left in all the relevant radio calls to the Ryanairs on purpose to illustrate how everything came together 👌
Very nice video, Peter ! Again ;..🙂
Thanks Stef, again 😎
Hi Péter! Great videaos, thanks for sharing. I really appreciate to discover the Belgian airspace through your videos. I am a private pilot with a French PPL. Leaving in Belgium, I am looking for a place to rent a plane. Could you tell me where are you renting it? Thanks a lot and keep going.
Hi, thanks! I am at Air Academy NewCAG, this is where I got my training too. They do also rent for pilots who did not get their licence there as far as I know, you could always contact them and ask around. Cheers!
Very nice flight Peter, with a perfect landing at EBCI just before the liner and a runway vacated via S4. 🎉 Solo and consolidation done for me, Monday I began the Nav flights. Thanks for the video that help me a lot. Next step FI ?
Thanks for watching, and good luck with the NAV flights! Soon you will have your first solo NAV, and to me that was the point where I felt like a proper pilot for real :) FI is a possibility for the future, I would likely enjoy doing that part time and I am thinking about it, but I am not yet 100% convinced that I want to go through with the whole CPL theory for it though :D We will see what life brings, for now I am just enjoying flying and the new experiences that it brings ;)
nice landing Peter as usual
Thanks Yves!