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Lisbon, Portugal to Brest, France
Date Aircraft ID Color Crew Passengers
8/23/2005 Pilatus PC-12 N317G White/Red 2 0
Departing Airport Departure Time Arriving Airport Arrival Time Total Time Aloft Cruising Altitude
LPPT 1348 LFRB 1900 3:50 FL260

LPPT > FTM > ABETO, > VIS > CANAR > RALUS > BARKO > KORET > AVS > LOTEE > LFBD

then IFR (low altitude routes)

LFBD > BDX > ROYAN > MAREN > OLERO > LUSON > TIRAV > NTS > RIMON > KORER > LENSU > ROSPO > LFRB

Report:

The Hopper sat alone on the tarmac, seemingly excommunicated from playing any of the reindeer games with the larger commercial airliners that were scattered along the tarmac on the other side of the runway. It was around 1330 as GZ and I ran through the preflight checklist and pushed back from the gate. We taxied down towards the runway, an AerLingus A310 faintly visible as she lifted off the ground. By the time we were aligned on the runway the A310 was already 7 miles from the airport as the tower gave us our takeoff clearance at 1348. We had a late start today if we were to make it to London City.

As we cleared the haze around 3,000 feet, we started to consume our beer selection for the flight.... Sagres. Being this close to Morocco, I somehow had scored a fez hat in a drunken stupor and some unrecognizable bar in Lisbon. I’m not sure how I obtained it, and something tells me there is a good reason for not remembering. George took quite a liking to the hat after beer number two and decided he would be the one wearing the fez hat for the duration of the flight. As we followed some flowing rivers north of Lisbon and we continued to drink, GZ was the first to loose the unspoken drinking bet of who had to "break the seal" first. As he headed back to the loo, I could have sworn I heard him mumble, "I gotta get a look at myself in the mirror while I piss with this fez hat on..."

After leaving Portuguese airspace, the Spanish terrain near the coast began to take shape, some with little pockets of clouds nestled in between the valleys. Before you realize it, you are over water. In this case, we grossly misjudged how far it really was from Lisbon to London. After slowly making progress, we decided we'd make a pit stop in Merignac (Bordeaux). So we turned ourselves east and found Bordeaux fairly easily. I botched another landing way left of center, and taxied to the gate, popped open our door and waited for Pierre to deliver us some beers.

While awaiting the arrival of the beer in Bordeaux (yes we realize its wine country) we pulled out a map of the area to figure how much further we could get before it was too late. For reasons unknown, we zeroed in on a lovely city by the name of Brest. Missing an 'A' or not, we knew this destination was meant to be, especially since we never made it to Cannes.

We climbed out to 15,000 feet and along the way snapped some cool photos of the Hopper with a few contrails behind us. Our approach into Brest was hazy with low visibility. Again, there were some misunderstood ATC instructions as we encountered a CRJ100 taxiing down RWY26L at the threshold! Two puzzling things about this:

A) There are insufficient taxiways at this airport which necessitate that a plane taxi on an active runway.

B) We were not informed of this aircraft's position, and were unable to see the traffic due to low visibility.

Additionally, there is a RWY26R which is barely visible in the photograph. Already quite a bit behind for the night, we made a very unorthodox move and skipped the hassles of a missed approach and simply landed behind the CRJ100 and quickly exited. This goes a long way to prove one of the ideals behind this project: Drunk pilots make bad decisions!

Its hard to tell from the low visibility just how spectacular this Brest is, hopefully we will have better weather on our departure to London City and points beyond...

GB

Beer Consumption Report
Beer: Sagres Origin: Lisbon, Portugal
Type: Lager Rating
(1-5):
2.4
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Beer # Pilot Navigator Other
1 0:00 0:00  
2 0:25 0:30  
3 1:30 1:15  
4      
5      
6      

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