Somewhere down there is Lake Geneva!

Swiss fly-out for Carlisle Flight Training

Three PPLs from Carlisle Flight Training recently flew to Switzerland to pick up a PA28-181 Archer. The Archer will be based at the club for IMC training and club touring.

Jon Pickering, Sohrab Padidar-Nazar and Tom Vaughan hopped over to Geneva with easyjet to collect the aircraft. “Sohrab had planned to fl y back with easyjet but the weather was fantastic so we decided to all fly back together in the Archer,” Tom told LOOP. “We stopped at Dijon, Le Touquet and Lydd on the return – about six and a half hours back to Carlisle. “It went surprisingly well considering it was a hightime engine. We knew we needed to replace the engine as soon as we got back so we were initially a bit unsure – but it seemed to work!”

The new engine is being installed at the moment, as well as all-new avionics. It’s hoped that G-RINCH (‘The Grinch’) will be available to hire by the end of February for £130 per hour wet. “It was the first time any of us had flown in the Alps,” said Tom. “ It was quite surreal flying level with village church spires downwind at Sion.”