A Trial flight with a Microlight plane at the airport Landshut 2009

 

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One of the courses which are offered in the adult education program here in Unterschleißheim is a trial flight with a Microlight airplane. The course is offered by the Fliegerclubs Wasentergernbach e.V. The first part was an evening event during which the theory of Microlight flying has been discussed. The practical part took place on the airport of Landshut on June 27th 2009. In addition to the flight we had the opportunity to visit the tower and to speak with the controller. Besides that we were allowed to visit the hangar in which the ADAC rescue helicopters are serviced and repaired.

Here you find some pictures from this event
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The Tower of Landshut airport
 

Tower Landshut EDML

View onto the desk of the controler on the tower

 Here you can see a short video in Flash format from the tower (4,3 MB)
 
 

 

Photos from the Maintenance hangar at the airport Landshut.











You can see two ADAC rescue helicopters which are serviced and repaired.

ADAC Hubschrauber in der Werft ADAC Hubschrauber in der Werft

ADAC Hubschrauber in der Werft ADAC Hubschrauber in der Werft

ADAC Hubschrauber in der Werft ADAC Hubschrauber in der Werft ADAC Hubschrauber in der Werft

 
At the airport you have also the possibility to do sightseeing flights with a helicopter.
 

Here you see the two Microlight airplanes from the flight club in Wasentergernbach.

More information about the planes can be found here

unsere beiden Ultraleichtflugzeuge unsere beiden Ultraleichtflugzeuge
Erich in the Microlight airplane just before the trial flight

Erich in der Ultraleichtmaschine vor dem Start zum Schnupperflug Erich in der Ultraleichtmaschine vor dem Start zum Schnupperflug
Pictures from the cockpit of the Microlight airplane

Cockpit des UL Cockpit des UL

At the taxiway before takeoff

Auf dem Taxiway vor dem Start

Arial images from the city of Landshut
(in the background)

 Here you can see a short video from the flight in Flash format (16 MB)

Luftbilder von Landshut Luftbilder von Landshut

On final approach to runway 07

Im Queranflug auf Rwy 07 des Landshuter Flughafens

 

Flight details:

having finished the before-takeoff checklists we requested clearance from the tower for an extented trafic circuit. Due to the light easterly wind we taxied to runway 07 and took off towards East. After the climb to 2500 ft we turned towards North and stayed west of the A92 motorway. Because of the low cloud ceiling we were unable to continue with our climb and stayed in about 400 m AGL.

When returning to the airport we joined the downwind leg of the circuit pattern, contacted the tower and landed savely on runway 07.

To sum upt: My first flight with a Microlight airplane made a lot of fun. The flight feeling is similar to the one in a Cessna, however it is much cheaper to maintain and fly an Microlight airplane. This has for sure not been my last flight with such a plane.

During the flight I had my GPS Tracker with me. That's why I can show you the flightpath in Google Maps:

 


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