GA airport in Paris

Hi!

I might be flying to Paris with my son next week.
Never landed near Paris to go to town (flown past a few times) so I'm not
really familiar with the airports there.

Which one is the typical GA one?
I need AVGAS, and it would be nice if it's easy to get to downtown Paris.

Thanks for any tips!

Frode Berg

Hardly a GA airport, but Le Bourget (if I spell it correctly) has
grand historical associations, and as I recall it has a museum to
boot.


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Cub Driver usenet AT danford DOT net wrote:
Hardly a GA airport

Actually, Le Bourget today is business jet and GA only, no airline
operations. It's also rather close. It might be what you're looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Bourget_Airport

Anno,

Le Bourget today is business jet and GA only,


Well, there's GA and then there's GA: Landing fee for a Bonanza 125
Euros (three years ago), handling mandatory, 70 Euro, flight planning
30 Euros, VFR only PPR.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Landing fee for a Bonanza 125 Euros (three years ago), handling mandatory,
70 Euro

Okay then, let me try again:

Aérodrome de Cyr l'Ecole, Cyr l'Ecole, close to Versailles.

Any better?

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 18:05:17 +0200, "Frode Berg"
wrote in :

Thanks for any tips!

How are your French language skills? http://www.aeroport.fr/

Hehe...

Non-excistent...

Thanks anyway.

I spoke to the airport manager at Le Bourget
No VFR. They are IFR only, and mostly business jets, but he advised me of
some other airports.

LFPN, LFPL, LFPE and LFPT

Will investigate those!

Frode

"Larry Dighera" skrev i melding
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 18:05:17 +0200, "Frode Berg"
wrote in :

Thanks for any tips!

How are your French language skills? http://www.aeroport.fr/

Frode Berg wrote:

Hi!

I might be flying to Paris with my son next week.
Never landed near Paris to go to town (flown past a few times) so I'm not
really familiar with the airports there.

Which one is the typical GA one?
I need AVGAS, and it would be nice if it's easy to get to downtown Paris.

Thanks for any tips!

Le Bourget is a great field and ideally located closer to Paris than
CDG/LFPG, with RER service to boot. Unfortunately they require special
permission (!) for VFR and rarely/if ever give that permission. Even if you
go IFR, fees /handling agent expenses/etc. are very high. A shame, but ADP
caters to airlines and big pocketbooks, not personal GA aviators. Has a
very cool museum though.

Can you land in 700 m easily? Try Lognes-Emerainville (LFPL). It's a
beautiful and friendly little field not to far away from Paris, out toward
Disneyland. Lognes has RER service to Paris and you can walk to the station,
less than about a 2000 m stroll. For Handling fees, you should get change
back your €10 note.

Toussus Le Noble (LFPN) has longer runways but may a bit more expensive and
worse, I don't think the transportation situation is as good there.

Please let us know where you end up going and what you experience. Don't get
to hear much about flying in Europe these days.

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:25:08 -0400, Owen wrote in
:

Try Lognes-Emerainville (LFPL). It's a
beautiful and friendly little field not to far away from Paris,

I stopped in one day, and had a chat with the AriFrance club members.
They were very friendly and helpful. They did caution, that the
locals use French on the radio however.

Here are some links with photos:
http://fly.simvol.org/indexus.php?te...s/lognesus.php
http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/airpho/lfpl.htm
http://66.218.71.231/language/transl...l=us&fr=fp-top

I wasn't able to find a detailed listing like one might find on
AirNav.com.

Larry,

They did caution, that the
locals use French on the radio however.


They do that all over France...

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)