Flying from the UK to Cyprus

UK to northern Croatia – say Pula or Mali Losinj (cheap fuel, minimum hassle)
Athens – to clear immigration in Greece – easier than Corfu.
Cyprus

And you can avoid Greece altogether if you use southern Croatia – say Dubrovnik

Your user profile is virtually empty (as many are). Do you intend to fly VFR or IFR?

Sounds like a great trip!

I was tempted to go just before the pandemic but went to Malta instead.

How long are you planning to spend getting down there? Do you want a few places to stop on the way? Do you have oxygen / turbo ? How long do you like to plan for each leg ?

It will be interesting to see this thread develop.

Hi there. With a TB20 and the range it has, it may be a good idea to plan Belgrade as a fuel stop, it has still quite cheap fuel and can provide a quick turn around. Also from there Cyprus should be reachable non stop, avoiding the hassle of Greece and its Fraport Airports. A rough estimate avoiding Turkish Airspace via Saloniki and Rhodes would yield about 900 NM, which is perfectly feasilbe for a TB20.

I have a load of TB20 writeups here and while most are IFR, the routes and general procedures would be very similar under VFR. There is a lot of detail there; these writeups are intended not as social media but to show how to plan and execute nontrivial trips.

The “easy” way to do this trip out of the UK in a TB20 would be

• UK (sit at home until the wx over the Alps is fine, and fly east of the main Alps)
• Slovenia or Croatia
• Sitia LGST
• Cyprus

Currently there may be an issue at LGST in that they pretend they can’t accept foreign traffic because they need a “medical team” to check your vacc certificate so contact them for the latest.

You will find that having oxygen helps a lot around Europe, even just for VFR.

@tonypip

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Planning a trip from Berlin to Cyprus in October. Any recent experiences from LCPH or LCLK? From my research fees at both locations seem to be identical as the same company runs the airports. Both seem to have airline traffic while LCPH might be a little less busy.

Has anybody flown over Turkey lately? I understand we can not fly from Turkey to Cyprus directly but we would come from Serbia, overfly Turkey and land at Cyprus with their strange radio handover procedure. Autorouter seems to produce a nice direct routing. But does Turkey require any over flight permits etc. or is it just file an IFR plan and go?

I’ve done some flights to Cyprus last year. 9 landings at LCLK and 4 at LCPH. It was usually from/to Moscow via Turkey.

Can’t comment much on the ground formalities as it was handled by ops, but there’s some phrase about TURKEY ECAC MEMBER to be added to the flight plan field 18 if overflying Turkey.

In the air, Nicosia would normally hand over with an incorrect frequency when flying towards Turkish airspace. The Turks were OK in that regard AFAIR. I had a note on the yoke with correct frequencies for waypoints TOMBI and VESAR. These can be checked in Jepp FD by holding the waypoint and selecting “notes”.