Dublin Flying club

Fionn101

Hi All,

Does anyone know if there is any/much G.A. activity out of Dublin (EIDW) anymore ?

all I see is http://www.dublinflyers.com/ and they look defunct, and I hear that avgas is no longer available ???
any help would be great

thanks,
Fionn

Steyr

Those guys left EIDW and re-located to Weston in 2008, AFAIK they got a water cannon salute too.


http://www.airportflyingclub.com/airportflyingclub.php?page=welcome

donkey balls

Steyr wrote: »

Those guys left EIDW and re-located to Weston in 2008, AFAIK they got a water cannon salute too.


http://www.airportflyingclub.com/airportflyingclub.php?page=welcome

here you go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR56_26kMaM

Fionn101

thanks Steyr, and cheers for the link donkey, that was class

EchoIndia

Taken on the day of relocation to Weston:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1136375/

Cessna_Pilot

Steyr wrote: »

Those guys left EIDW and re-located to Weston in 2008, AFAIK they got a water cannon salute too.


http://www.airportflyingclub.com/airportflyingclub.php?page=welcome

There were two clubs based in Dublin, the Airport Flying Club, whose sole C172 EI-ING is based in Weston and the Dublin Flyers who operated Piper aircraft who I believe have their aircraft based elsewhere, Trim or the likes not too sure.

Fionn101

Cessna_Pilot wrote: »

There were two clubs based in Dublin, the Airport Flying Club, whose sole C172 EI-ING is based in Weston and the Dublin Flyers who operated Piper aircraft who I believe have their aircraft based elsewhere, Trim or the likes not too sure.

stuff in brackets for the beginners on the forum

thanks for all the info folks,

So do Dublin (EIDW) handle any G.A.(General Aviation) traffic anymore ?

I've always wanted to land in there at night but I reckon this would be a costly operation , still , I see on youtube someone has managed it before in a Cessna 172.

what are the costs likely to be ? if this is even possible anymore , would they allow a quick touch and go landing perhaps ?

thanks in advance

Fionn

donkey balls

Fionn101 wrote: »

stuff in brackets for the beginners on the forum

thanks for all the info folks,

So do Dublin (EIDW) handle any G.A.(General Aviation) traffic anymore ?

I've always wanted to land in there at night but I reckon this would be a costly operation , still , I see on youtube someone has managed it before in a Cessna 172.

what are the costs likely to be ? if this is even possible anymore , would they allow a quick touch and go landing perhaps ?

thanks in advance

Fionn

i dont know about the costs for landing at DUB are i presume there skyhigh like LGW, but during the time of the volcanic ash when the airport was closed there was guys flying c170 into the airport.

pilot1087

hi all,

As far as I know EIDW were looking for around €200 to do touch and goes when they were closed during the ash cloud. Low approaches are free and you get all the fun apart from the landings (which I suppose would be the best part if you can afford it)

bombs away

Used to be a member of the Airport flying club, it was great fun flying in and out of Dublin mixing it with the big boys. When rwy 29/11 closed down it became very difficult to fly in and out of the airport, you could be holding for ages just to get in on 28 (Once I was holding over broadmeadows for nearly an hour) and this really put an end to general aviation there. When GA finished we moved out to Trim and the club now split's it's time between there and Weston.

Preset No.3

During the airspace closure I took a robin out of weston and did 200ft approaches down 28. I never heard any mention of charging €200 for t'n'g.

The only reason we couldn't land was because of work ongoing on
the runway. Tower were very accomadating and let's us go round twice. My vid is up on the sticky page.