EMPOA News

Dear Mooniacs,

after working a lot on our new website to represent the internationality of the EMPOA we finally would like to invite you to have a look. Our current website www.mooney.de has worked for many years now and it is the base for everything the EMPOA stands for until today and this is the reason, why we still keep this website up and running. But all further news and activities will only be continued on the new EMPOA website at:

http://www.empoa.eu

So please have a look at the new page and let us know, if you have any further ideas or comments.

Since our last AGM in Egelsbach we would proudly like to present the new board of directors to you, which has been elected by the members:

President: Rainer Hutz
Vice-president: Peter Krauss
Treasurer: Birgit Vogelbruch

We thank Rainer, Peter and Birgit to take the lead for the next 2 years and wish them all the best for their work to make EMPOA an even more attractive association for every Mooniac.

Finally we like to thank the old board of directors for their great work. Especially to Thomas Hamacher who did an asthonising incomparable job to make the EMPOA come true and put so much passion and work into the idea of bringing the Mooniacs through Europe together. Until today his creation is something very unique and special and we will always be very thankful for that. Thomas asked for a break after beeing the head leader for 8 years and obviously wanted to open chances for new successors. But he will still support and advise the EMPOA in future. We wish him all the best and thank him for everything he did!

See you soon at www.empoa.eu

EMPOA Board of directors

Cher Mooniac,

Vous trouverez en pièce jointe le flyer du 3ème Fly In MOONIACS qui aura lieu cette année à PARIS les 24 et 25 Septembre, avec une soirée prévue le 24 Septembre 2011 dans les salons de l’Aéro Club de France.
Nous aurons plaisir à vous compter parmi les participants.Il nous est impératif de pouvoir disposer de votre réponse avant le 30 Août 2011.

Bien amicalement.

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Dear Mooniac,

Jacques CAILLIES and me are organizing the 3rd MOONIACS Fly In  on September 24th & 25th at PARIS, with a diner at the Aéro Club de France on Septembrer 24th.

We would be happy to be able to count on your presence. You will find in enclosure the program of the rejoicings. We need to get your answer as soon as possible, and before August 30th.

Do not hesitate to contact us for any further information you would wish.

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Bons vols,

Fly safe,

Jacques CAILLIES, Gilles KHAÏAT

Dear EMPOA-Mooniacs!

due to the bad wheather, we unfortunately had to cancel our scheduled AGM for June. Now we have found a revised date and the board of directors of the European Mooney Pilots and Owners Association would like to invite all members to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2011.

This AGM will take place on Saturday, 01.10.2011, in the heart of Germany, at the airport of Egelsbach (EDFE). We will start the agenda at 11:00h LT at the Restaurant “Schubeck” directly at the airfield. The contact details are shown subsequently:

Schuhbeck´s Check Inn
Flugplatz Egelsbach
63329 Egelsbach
Tel: +49 (0) 6103 – 48 59 38 0
Fax: +49 (0) 6103 – 48 59 38 20
Mail: info@schuhbecks-check-inn.de

The agenda for the AGM will be as follows:

1. Director´s annual report
2. Financial report including cash auditing
3. Discharge of the board of directors
4. Election of the board of directors
5. Member requests (as notified prior in writing)

In case you have any contribution which you would like to add to the agenda, we would kindly ask you to send us a written request until 15.09.2011.

Furthermore we would like every participant to register through the following registration form on our webpage, so that we get an idea of how many of you we have to expect:

To the registration form

We are looking forward to meeting you in Egelsbach and wish you a safe flight already!

EMPOA board of directors

Liebe EMPOA-Mooniacs!

Eines vorweg: ich bin beeindruckt von unserer Teilnehmerliste und freue mich total, Euch alle - hoffentlich vollzählig - bei Tannkosh 2011 in unserer EMPOA-Box zu treffen. Mit einer solchen Resonanz hatte ich nicht gerechnet. Jetzt muß nur noch das Wetter einigermaßen mitspielen und wir werden eine fantastische Zeit haben!

Tannkosh-Organisatorin Verena Dolderer ist informiert und wir werden eine Box nahe der Flightline haben, alle werden unsere Mooneys bewundern können.

Einige Bitten vorweg: wenn es Euch möglich ist, bitte bringt pro Flieger zwei Klappstühle und möglichst auch einen Campingtisch mit. Dann können wir vielleicht eine kleine Tafel aufbauen bzw. unsere Besucher können sich auch mal hinsetzen. Hat jemand von Euch ein größeres Zelt bzw. einen Zeltpavillion, den er zusätzlich mitbringen kann? Muß kein Riesending sein, aber als zentrale Stelle bei Regen wäre das klasse. Ansonsten versuche ich das zu organisieren. Ich fände es toll, wenn jeder ein paar Spezialitäten aus seiner Heimat mitbringen könnte (auch in flüssiger Form), dann haben wir neben den Flugzeugen gleich noch ein zweites Thema…

Ich melde mich nochmal im August mit einem Update und hoffe auf Euren Input!

Happy landings,

David Kromka

Dear EMPOA-Mooniacs!

One thing in advance: I am impressed by our list of participants and I am so happy to meet you - hopefully all of you - during Tannkosh 2011 at our EMPOA-Box. I never thought there would be that many who are willing to come. Only the weather has to be a little bit favorable now and we will have a fantastic time!

The Tannkosh-Team of Verena Dolderer is informed and we will have our box close to the flightline, everybody will be able to admire our fantastic airplanes.

Some requests: if possible, I would like to ask each of you to bring two folding chairs per aircraft and a camping table if possible. This way we would be able to make one big table for all of us and visitors to our box may have a seat as well. Does someone have a larger tent or tented pavillion that you are able to bring additionally? Doesn’t have to be a huge thing but it might serve as sort of central place if it rains. If no one has such a thing I will try to organise it. I would love if everybody could bring some specialties from your homebase (also in liquid form), so we do have another topic to discuss and exchange apart from our planes.

I will be coming with another update in August and hope for your input!

Happy landings,

David Kromka

Dear EMPOA-Mooniacs!

As already announced we would like to bring some “Mooney-spirit” to this year’s Tannkosh Fly-In. The Tannkosh-organizers have already agreed to reserve our own area for a “Mooney model Fy-In” and we will positioned directly on the flightline. To determine the size of this area we need as soon as possible your feedback regarding your participation, your arrival date and with what aircraft. Space is limited at Tannheim (especially at such a prime location) and we would like to give Verena Dolderer and her team some possibility for planning.

About our planning: Tannkosh is Europe’s biggest Fly-In and this year will again be packed with exciting events for all visitors. Detailed information about Tannkosh can be found on its website “www.tannkosh.com“. As EMPOA-Moonicas we want to present ourselves in our own box this year, show our high-speed-machines with pride to other visitors, but also just enjoy the great EMPOA- and Tannkosh-spirit. We will be having a central tent, install EMPOA-beachflags and simply create a cosy atmosphere around our airplanes: it will be the perfect opportunity to meet, talk, discuss about Mooney and many other things.

Apart from your registration we would be very happy if some Moonicas would be able to give some logistical support. We still need some people who will be transporting some material to Tannheim (be it by air or by road). Despite our planes not being real freigthers: one or two additional foldable camping chairs might already help. Anyone able to give some support is invited to contact David Kromka by eMail.

Regarding landing: the EMPOA advance party with N252CG will be landing at EDMT on Thursday, August 25th and “secure” our area. Regarding grass runways: many Mooney pilots are cautious about landing on unpaved runways and they are right, our planes do not have the ground clearance of a Cessna. Nevertheless does Tannheim feature a sufficiently long runway and the approach- and departure sectors are clear of obstacles, so performance and the lenght of the runway should be no problem. And the condition of the runway at Tannheim has always been very good. Airplanes with retractable gear (and Mooneys, too) are landing there regularly and we hope that as many EMPOA-Mooniacs as possible will join us there late August.

Therefore we are inviting you to join us at our first EMPOA goes Tannkosh. Simply fill out the registration form and join this incredible event

Wie bereits angekündigt, wollen wir dieses Jahr das Fly-In Tannkosh mit ein wenig Mooney-Spirit bereichern. Die Tannkosh-Organisatoren haben uns bereits zugesagt. daß wir eine eigene Box für unser “Mooney Typen Fly-In” bekommen werden und haben uns eine Box eigens an der Bahn reserviert. Um deren Größe einigermaßen gut planen zu können, benötigen wir daher möglichst bald Eure Rückmeldungen, wer kommen möchte, wie lange bleiben und mit welchem Flieger. Platz (gerade an einer solch exponierten Lage) ist in Tannheim Mangelware und wir wollen Verena Dolderer und Team eine verlässliche Planungsgrundlage geben.

Kurz zu unseren Vorstellungen und Planungen: Tannkosh ist Europas größtes Fly-In und auch dieses Jahr wartet wieder ein volles Programm auf die Besucher. Informationen zu Tannkosh findet Ihr direkt auf dessen Website “www.tannkosh.com“. Als EMPOA wollen wir in 2011 mit unserer eigenen Box Präsenz zeigen, den anderen Besuchern unsere High-Speed-Geräte näherbringen, aber auch einfach nur den EMPOA- und Tannkosh-Geist (er)leben. Dazu werden wir ein zentrales Zelt aufbauen, EMPOA-Beachflags präsentieren und es uns auch sonst rund um unsere Maschinen gemütlich machen: die perfekte Gelegenheit, sich besser kennenzulernen, über Mooneys und vieles andere zu reden. Wer auf Tannkosh campen möchte, der kann dies natürlich auch in der EMPOA-Box tun.

Neben Eurer Anmeldung würden wir uns auch freuen, wenn der eine oder andere Mooniac sich bereiterklären würde, ein wenig logistische Unterstützung zu leisten. Wir brauchen noch Leute, die ein wenig Material nach Tannheim transportieren können (auf dem Luft- oder Landweg). Unsere Maschinen sind zwar keine Frachter, ab ein oder zwei Klappstühle zusätzlich können schon viel helfen. Wer helfen möchte, bitte einfach eine Mail an David Kromka schreiben. Bitte beachten, daß Eure Anmeldung zu diesem Event keine automatische Hotel- oder Pensionsbuchung auslöst. Wer also nicht campen möchte, möge sich bitte eigenständig um Hotel oder Pension kümmern (Infos auf der Tannkosh-Website).

Stichwort Anflug: das EMPOA-Vorauskommando mit der N252CG wird bereits am Donnerstag, 25. 08., in EDMT landen und die Box “sichern”. Zum Thema Graspiste: viele Mooney-Piloten sind (zu Recht) zögerlich beim Anfliegen unbefestigter Bahnen. Allerdings verfügt Tannheim über eine entsprechende lange und in den An- und Abflugsektoren hindernisfreie Bahn, sodaß die Bahnlänge kein Problem sein dürfte. Und der Bahnzustand in Tannheim ist ebenfalls vorbildlich. Maschinen mit Einziehfahrwerk (und auch Mooneys) landen regelmäßig dort und wir würden uns freuen, wenn möglichst viele EMPOA-Mooniacs Ende August kommen würden.

Wir möchten Euch deswegen herzlich einladen, das Anmeldeformular für das erste “EMPOA goes Tannkosh” auszufüllen und an diesem einzigartigen Event teilzunehmen.

With best regards,
Mit vielen Grüßen,

David Kromka

Fellow Mooniacs,

the board of directors of the European Mooney Pilots and Owners Association would like to invite all members to the annual general meeting (AGM) 2011.

This years AGM should take place on 04.06.2011 in the lovely french town of Lyon. We will meet at 16:00h LT at the following hotel:

Mercure Grand Hôtel Château Perrache
12 Cours de Verdun Rambaud, Lyon
Tel : (+33)4/72771500
Fax : (+33)4/78370656
Email : H1292@accor.com

We would like everybody, who is going to stay overnight, to contact the hotel directly for an individual booking. Alternatively we recommend to check booking.com (http://www.booking.com/hotel/fr/grand-mercure-chateau-perrache.fr.html) as the internet rates might be even better.

The agenda for the AGM will be as follows:

1. Director´s annual report
2. Financial report including cash auditing
3. Discharge of the board of directors
4. Election of the board of directors
5. Member requests (as notified prior in writing)

In case you have any contribution which you would like to add to the agenda, we would kindly ask you to send us a written request until 15.05.2011.

Furthermore we would like every participant to register through the following registration form on our webpage, so that we get an idea of how many of you we have to expect:

http://www.mooney.de:8080/teilnehmerverwaltung/2011agm/registration.jsp

We are looking forward to meeting you in Lyon and wish you a safe flight already!

EMPOA board of directors

Hallo Mooniacs,

an dieser Stelle ein kurze Information an alle deutschsprachigen Mooniacs:

Auch wenn die Einladungen zu den Veranstaltungen der EMPOA nun in englisch verfasst sind, so möchten wir dennoch auch unsere deutschsprachigen Mitglieder gerne erreichen und auch ermutigen, sich weiterhin an den Veranstaltungen zu beteiligen.

Europa ist ein Land mit sehr vielen Sprachen und unterschiedlichen Kulturen, die wir auch so in die EMPOA übernehmen und auch unterstützen möchten. Als einheitliche, völkerübergreifende Sprache haben wir uns zur gemeinsamen Kommunikation auch dem Englischen anpassen müssen, dennoch stellen wir natürlich bei den Veranstaltungen auch immer wieder fest, daß sich neben dem internationalen Austausch auf englisch auch lokale Grüppchen aus einem gemeinsamen Sprachraum zusammenfinden. Und das ist es genau, was Europa im Gegensatz zu z.B. den USA ausmacht und was wir als eine unserer Besonderheiten auch gerne in der EMPOA pflegen. Also bitte macht Euch keine Sorgen über eventuelle sprachliche Defizite - die EMPOA fordert schließlich keinen erfolgreichen ICAO Sprachtest - sondern tragt vielmehr mit Eurer Regionalität zu der Vielfalt bei, die wir uns als “Europäische” Mooney Gemeinschaft wünschen.

Aus diesem Grund möchte ich aber alle deutschsprachigen noch einmal inbesondere zu den künftigen EMPOA Events einladen!

Derzeitig läuft noch die Anmeldung für den diesjährigen Eagle-Flight zur AERO 2011 (Anmeldung über http://www.mooney.de/limesurvey/index.php?sid=65464&newtest=Y). Doch Anfang April müssen wir die Anmeldeliste an die Flugsicherung in Friedrichshafen übermitteln, sodaß wir alle Interessenten nocheinmal darauf hinweisen möchten, ihre Anmeldung noch im März und damit innerhalb der nächsten Woche zu tätigen. Bisher ist die Resonanz im Vergleich zu den vorherigen Eagle-Flights sehr gering, sodaß wir hier gerne noch einige Teilnehmer ermutigen möchten. Die EMPOA wird derartige Veranstaltungen natürlich nur weiter fortführen, wenn die Resonanz innerhalb der Mooney Gemeinschaft entsprechend hoch ist, daß sich das Engagement dafür auch lohnt. Die beste Bestätigung dafür ist immer die Teilnehmerzahl und da ist dann wiederrum Euer Engagement als Teil der Community gefragt.

In dem letzten Newsletter haben wir darüber hinaus über unsere Tour durch Frankreich während Himmelfahrt berichtet. Diese Tour wird vom 01.06.2011-05.06.2011 stattfinden und von Deauville über La Rochelle und San Sebastian nach Lyon führen. Für diese Tour besteht zwar noch kein Termindruck und auch die Anzahl der Teilnehmer ist hier nicht so entscheidend, aber dennoch möchte ich gerne nocheinmal ausdrücklich in Deutsch dazu einladen und zur Teilnahme anregen. Wer dazu noch Fragen hat oder Unsicherheiten beschäftigen oder noch einen Mitflieger sucht, kann sich gerne jederzeit an mich wenden (tower @ mooney.de). Allen anderen ist hier gerne nochmal der direkte Weg zur Anmeldung aufgezeigt: http://www.mooney.de/limesurvey/index.php?sid=68852&newtest=Y.

In diesem Sinne hoffe ich auf einen Anstieg der Teilnehmerzahlen und wünsche ansonsten ein frühlingshaftes Wochenende.

Mit fliegerischem Gruß

Thomas Hamacher

Fellow Mooniacs,

as already mentioned in an earlier newsletter, the EMPOA is going to do another tour this year. This tour will take us through France this June (01.06.-05.06.20100) and is intended to be a lot smaller and shorter than our last one. As it will take place during the long weekend of Ascension day, it provides many pilots the chance to easily join the tour.

Today I would like to give you some more information about the EMPOA tour as we finally set up some more details about the routing and give you already the chance to register for the participation. Basically the whole tour can be flown VFR or IFR depending on your preferences. All legs are chosen to be flyable within max. 2h so there is still enough time for some touristic attractions on the ground.

So please let me say some short words about the routing and our destinations in one of the most marvellous countries of Europe - especially for pilots.

01.06.2011 - Deauville
We would like to start our little tour at the famous small harbour city in the north of France. Deauville is a beautifull little place at the channel and a lot of people from Paris come here to relax, go swimming and simply enjoy life. The airport of Deauville (LFRG) is located south of the city and will be the meeting point for us. We won´t set up a defined time to meet, so everybody has the chance himself to decide at what time he wants to come, depeding on your workload on that day. As during these times the days become very long already, nobody should get into trouble.

02.06.2011 - La Rochelle
The first leg with the group takes us from the Normandy on the northern coast to the atlantic coast to the small city of La Rochelle. La Rochelle is the capital of the Départements Charente-Maritime and a nice little place for a walk through the beautiful old harbour (Vieux Port) and the historic city centre. Alternatively you might wanna do a small trip to the small island of Île de Ré, which is located a couple of miles away from the coast of La Rochelle.To finally completely dive into the famous french way of life, La Rochelle offers a lot of culinary highlights. Especially the sea-food is something you shouldn´t miss here.

03.06.2011 - San Sebastian
On the next day we will look forward to a beautiful flight along the atlantic coast. The next leg of around 170NM takes us further south towards the spanish border. We will pass famous places of the Aquitaine such as Soulac-Sur-Mer, Bordeaux and Biarritz and will finally arrive at our destination of San Sebastian. San Sebastian is only a couple of miles away from the french border in the golf of Biskaya, but it completely feels different here. You will quickly notice, that you have already reached Spain. San Sebastian is located in a bay called La Concha (The sea shell) and you will shortly realize, where this name comes from. Maritime smooth wheather and sandy beaches will let our stay be like in a dream.

04.06.2011 - Lyon
San Sebastian will be the turn-around-point for our tour. The next leg takes us back in north-easterly direction. We will fly along the Pyrenees through an area which is known a lot among aviators. Not only Airbus has its largest plant in Toulouse, but also Tarbes, where Socata builds its general aviation planes such as the TBM850, is located not far away from our route. So everybody who is interested might wanna make a small stopover here and have a look at how these airplanes are build. But also everybody who likes wine will definately enjoy this flight. We will fly along many very famous wineries with its fantastic castles towards the region of Rhône-Alpes. The city of Lyon will be our final destination and also the place to have our next Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the EMPOA. The small GA-airport of Lyon Bron welcomes our little group at our last common destination for this tour.

As you can see, we have chosen some of the many very interesting places to go in France and we tried to keep this tour small enough, that many Mooniacs find some time to join this tour. Of course you can feel free to adjust your routing according to your preferences or arrive at a later point or leave earlier. In contrast to the tour through south-eastern Europe last year, we want to keep this tour as simple as possible and therefore leave everybody as much freedom as possible. Besides the fact that we decided for the destinations and the routing we will not provide any “official” touristic parts during this tour. This tour is primarily intended to provide a rough structure for a bringing Mooniacs together at some lovely places in France and give everybody the chance to meet and travel among friends and simply have a good time together.

For those Mooniacs, who decide to fly this tour completely as introduced, we already did a preselection over the local hotels, so that we can be sure that the group can stay together as a whole. As the hotels are mostly very crowded during these days we were only able to reserve a limited number of double bed rooms, who will be assigned by the “first-come, first-serve”-rule.

We are looking forward to everybody, who decides to join this tour. In case you might be a little bit unsure if you want to do this trip alone and might need some further help for the flight-preparation or during the tour, please let us know and we will do our best to solve your problems. If anybody is looking for a partner to build a crew, you should also send us a message, so that we can help in bringing people together.

So if you are want to join this tour, please fill out the registration form, so that we have an idea about the number and the intentions of all pilots. You will find the registration form through clicking the following link:

EMPOA on tour 2011 registration form

Please note, that the registration can only be completed successfully, as soon as the participation fee has been transferred to the EMPOA bank account. So please transfer 75,-€ per participating person to the following account:

Account-no: 24639551
Clearing-no: 69050001
Sparkasse Bodensee
IBAN: DE92 6905 0001 0024 639551
BIC: SOLADESILKNZ

You also have the chance to transfer your participation fee through PayPal to “paypal@ empoa.eu”

In case you have decided to join the complete tour and therefore also want to book the hotel package, please add further 535,-€ for a double-room and we will put your name on the reservation list. For an easier handling we currently only reserved double or twin bed rooms. In case you want to have a single bed room, please send a message to us and we will see, what we can do.

So this is it for the moment. We hope to see many of you during this tour and spent some great time together. In case you have some further ideas about this tour, which you want to share with us, we are glad if you let us know. As usually this event should be a community event and everybody is invited to contribute whatever he likes.

Fly safe!

Thomas Hamacher

Fellow Mooniacs,

the days are becoming longer again and during some days a taste of spring is already in the air. Pilots are driving to the airport to look after their plane and prepare them for the upcoming flying-season. And they start thinking about where to go in 2011….

And this is where the EMPOA comes into place and would like to introduce the schedule for 2011.

EMPOA Eagle-Flight 2011 (15./16.04.2011) :
The season will all start with the traditional Eagle-Flight to the AERO 2011 in Friedrichshafen.
For the 4th time a formation of Mooneys flies along the beautiful Lake Constance to the famous general aviation fair in EDNY. Robert Jongen has decided to offer this spectacular and exiting flight again and guides us as Mooney Lead safely towards our destination.

But we have learned from the past years and we decided to be a lot stricter than we were in the former years to hold up the safety-level. Robert´s initial idea was, to train a small group of Mooniacs to finally build up a semi-professional Mooney formation. Until today the group of participants has changed a lot, so we didn´t really come closer to this point. But Robert will tell about his idea during these days and everybody can decide, if he maybe wants to get deeper into aerobatic formation flight and do this exciting way of flying more frequently than only once every 2 years.

You are greately invited to join the 2011 Eagle-Flight, but make sure you meet the following requirements:

• Each participating Mooney has to provide a full crew of pilot to fly and a copilot to do the radio.
• At least one of the crew-members already has already flown an Eagle-Flight in earlier years.
• Each participant has to participate in the briefing and perform the training flight.
• The pilot must have logged at least 150h in a Mooney.

In case someone doesn´t come with a copilot or doesn´t have any experience concerning the Eagle-Flight, we will surely try to arrange a partner to be able to join the flight. Please let us know upon your registration. As we will keep the procedure of last time you are invited to familiarize yourself with the procedues. Unfortunately the information are currently only available in german, but you will find them here.

We will meet at Donaueschingen (EDTD) airfield as usual. The mandatory briefing and the training flight will be held on Friday, 15th. Please check the schedule for further information. You will find the registration form at the following URL:

http://www.mooney.de/limesurvey/index.php?sid=65464&newtest=Y

Please make sure to place your reservation soon at the Concorde-Hotel. We have a designated contingent at a special price for Mooniacs. You can contact the hotel as follows:

Hotel Concorde
Dürrheimer Str. 82
78166 Donaueschingen
Tel: 0771 8363-0
http://www.concorde-donau.de/

Annual general meeting 2011 (04.06.2011) :
This years AGM is going to take place in the wonderful small village of Annecy in France. We scheduled the AGM for July, 4th 2011 and are currently evaluating the different accomodations. As soon as we have any further information, we will definately publish them on the website together with the agenda. If you already have any topics you would like to mention during the AGM or you think might be important for the EMPOA, please let us know and we will put it on the agenda.

EMPOA On Tour 2011 (01.06.-05.06.2011):
After the great success of the Mooney Tour last your through southeastern Europe we decided to offer another Tour in 2011. The tour will not be as big as the last tour was and we will try to keep things as simple as possible, but it should be an opportunity to fly around Europe with other Mooniacs and have a good time together. We decided for a roundtrip through France during the ascension weekend. France offers a lot of beautiful places to go and is a wonderful country to fly. We will publish further details and the routing within the next couple of weeks, but it might be important for some of you to save the date already.

EMPOA goes Tannkosh (26.-28.08.2011):
If you have never been to Tannkosh yet, you definately have to go there and feel the experience. It is not Oshkosh but it´s definately unique in Europe and a highlight for every pilot to be among such a big number of flying enthusiasts with so many different aircraft and people sleeping in a small tent besides their aircraft and enjoying the show. One of our Mooniacs, David Kromka, had the idea to go there with a bunch of Mooniacs. To bring a little bit more Oshkosh-feeling to Europe we thought about installing a Mooney campsite during the Tannkosh-Festival. There is still a lot of things to talk about, but this would definately be a great chance to spent the time together among Mooniacs at a wonderful event.

David´s Mooney Tours:
But David does not only want to go to Tannkosh - he also wants to fly around Europe with his wonderful M20K 252. In his real life he is an airline-pilot but during his freetime he likes to fly to beautiful places and beeing a real Mooniac he would like to share his experiences and ideas with other Mooniacs. So he invited everybody, who is interested in joining him to contact him. His first tour is going to start pretty soon around march, 9th towards southern France. During end of june and the beginning of august his idea is to do another tour. The routing has not yet been decided, but countries like Italy, Croatia or the United Kingdom can be possible destinations. Please check the EMPOA forum at http://www.mooney.de/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=17 to find some more information and please contact David as soon as possible if you are interested to fly with him. So he becomes an idea about how many people are interested in these tours.

As you can see there are already a lot of ideas what to do and where to fly. We are looking forward to meet as many Mooniacs of you during any of these days. If any of you already has some plans and would like to share them with other Mooniacs or would like to invite us to a Mooney Fly-In at a wonderful place, please do not hesitate to let us know. We like to encourage everybody to do so, as this is the base for our community and contributions from our members is what the EMPOA is for.

Fly safe!

Thomas