My mechanic, who used to do rental, said to ask one of his customers who has a flying group. The hourly rate is a bit high, but no initial or monthly cost; at least the option is there.
In hindsight, I should maybe have been a bit more sociable with other based pilots 
Unfortunately there’s no real social life other than a passing chat on the tarmac, so it’s not easy.
You’re lucky to find such plane for rental. Are you looking through the parked planes and let a word on a paper ? I am up to this now, I have seen some arrow on the tarmac.
The other aircraft’s insurer will cover my damage, but I’m going to be grounded for a while. I’ve arranged palliative rental of another Arrow in the meantime.
Steve6443 and aart’s weekends are welcome escapism.
RobertL18C wrote:
blue woad painted non schengen visitors
Didn’t fly that week end… I had planned to through the club, but a stupid administrative issue prevent me to get the keys. Their system is blocking plane’s access if you don’t have your FFA license and your $$ account is positive. I had all that bu they didn’t receive (or checked…) my FFA license status. And nobody to really help on Sunday, so me and my friends went back home. It was a pity as Sunday was the first day in 2 waaks when we don’t have either high winds or no low clouds in here…
I am really not made for clubs, but still have no plane that fit my needs and pocket money at the moment, and no time to look for it…
Yes TKS is an anti ice system not a de icing system. It is essential to start it going before you expect to enter icing conditions.
BTW since the last 30 min of the flight to LFLP were in light icing (with some 5 min in moderate icing), once more I confirmed that turning on TKS few minutes earlier is the only proper way to use the system – practically zero ice accumulated with minimum fluid used.
Slight thread drift alert…
@Buckerfan, I think we’ll need to share (or better, each his own…) some glass of adult beverage next time we meet… small world indeed 
Dan wrote:
A couple pics, yesterday, leaving CH, the Tour d’Aï and de Mayen (which I used to fly inverted thru in the Cap-10B when younger…)
That is amazing to see Dan.
I learned to fly at Bex Aerodrome in the early 2000s, which as you probably know is less than 5 NM from there. On my first lesson the instructor flew us between these same 2 little peaks at very low level (albeit blue side up in an ancient Jodel). I thus assumed this such activities were ‘normal’. It took a couple of close calls soon after I got my PPL to discover that this is not the case if you want to keep flying for a long time.
All trainee pilots should read The Killing Zone, about how newbie pilots kill themselves at a great rate between 50 and 350 total time. Very sobering.
Just did a short flight between the showers to run the oil warm.
