Slowly warm at home, I watch the snow fall and the inches of powder build up in the garden, I welcome not having to out on the road ...
1:58 p.m., the phone rings. We must start in Clermont-Ferrand in order to bring a crew of a regional airline that will reduce aircraft and passengers from the capital of Auvergne. Time to change me, and I put myself out without delay, not knowing how long I'm going to rally Bourget.
The National slips a bit, so I ride at a walk. Then it starts to rub ... No traffic jams on the A86 and the A3, but it crawls seen weather. But at least it runs. It is in the slip between the A1 and A3 it spoils. It is completely stopped, and it lasts and lasts.
A full half-hour later (to less than one kilometer), I arrive on the A1, where it rolls around. Before rub again in the output to Le Bourget. A new half-hour to a few hundred meters ...
So, I have time to take pictures, the trees are all white, very pretty!
After 1:30 in the car (against 15 to 20 minutes in normal times), here I am at Le Bourget. The car parks are all white, and also had ...
It prepares the aircraft and flight, and that's the expectations of our passengers, who are also stuck in traffic. The King Air awaits them wisely ...
The two pilots and two cabin crew finally arrived and off we went. Taxiing on the taxiways snowy prudent, especially in the turns we take on the tip of the tires. At Le Bourget, when one is facing east, take-offs are on a runway 09 and landings on Runway 07. But at the time of our departure, runway 09 is full of snow, and take-offs are therefore on the 07. My captain was PF. A little before 80 knots, it starts to drag a bit. Another 15 kt to take, and that the rotation: it is better than air travel at nearly 180 mph on the track slightly slippery!
uneventful flight to Clermont-Ferrand, it does almost no frost! During the descent, you can enjoy a nice panorama, with dark clouds against the sky clearer, as the brightness of the moon ...
So we exit the runway, the controller warns us that we have a slot 7 minutes later. It keeps the engine on the left (side door), my captain accompanying passengers while I remain at my post, and here we go again right away. Time to pack less than 5 minutes.
On takeoff, it shakes severe. I let my captain to act as self-shifters, preferring to hold the steering wheel with both hands! Then it calms down, the Bourget'm back. The track was unobstructed, and it does not slip at all. By cons, our car is still covered with snow.
was a second mission in the late evening, but again, it takes passengers who call us to let us know they are leaving Orly. So we are not ready to see it! Once again, the Beech 200 waits to leave quietly into the night sky ...
Meanwhile, a Falcon 50 waiting to take off. Inside, the singer Shakira who must wonder if she'll be able to arrive in time for her concert in Frankfurt. Its captain was able to have a window for Cologne (200 miles away!). (Eventually, his concert will be canceled and 11,000 fans will have waited for nothing ...)
Finally, our passengers arrive, and the public servants of the IMF, waiting desperately for a taxi to their hotel, rush . We drive carefully in the parking lot still full of snow, then more normally to Runway 25, the taxiways were now perfectly well plowed.
At Vannes, it's great weather, and I ask the King Air at sight while my captain made the self-Info radio. A firefighter awaits us at the airport. As earlier in Clermont, we stop a motor, and we leave immediately. Brest telephone call to close the flight plan and request the initiation for the return. Here we go again.
We spend between Rennes and Nantes, and then skirts the entire city of Le Mans lit. With a good tail wind, on file at over 300 knots, and this is already the Paris region. Flying over the N118 which is a long ribbon of red lights, cars in a galley, while it is 1 o'clock in the morning. I told my captain that we should make traffic information. I do not say so ...
De Gaulle we made a small onion vectored us shorten. And then the controller asked us:
- IBJ208D, you see the southern ring?
- Yes, we see
- It rolls how, please?
- Not too bad, but in places it is loaded.
- Ok, thank you!
After four stages and five hours of flight, I left Le Bourget airport and get home in 20 minutes on a 1A3 A86 and perfectly clear (but with lines of trucks parked see the emergency stop), making still attention once in town, where it slips a little ...
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