The plan was simple, fly to France, IFR for lunch and the most convenient place to do this is Le Toqueut. Daylight increases to almost 4 minutes a day at this time of year but with the unsettled weather since the start of last summer plaguing us, timing for trips and planning the safest IFR flight possible was proving very difficult, especially with the lower ambient temperatures meaning higher likelihood of icing and with frontal conditions, the risk is made even higher.
Flying to France today is no easy feat, especially at short notice due to the PPR or PN requirements, in most cases 48 hours and rarely but noteworthy in some cases 72 hours prior. Le Touquet doesn’t require this, and that’s mostly due to the fact Macron has a Summer house there so customs are almost always available.
I’m not normally a fan of YouTube, but that was a good video. Only criticism is the un-French choice of lunch 😃
Capitaine wrote:
I’m not normally a fan of YouTube, but that was a good video. Only criticism is the un-French choice of lunch 😃
Thanks for the awesome comment :) It’s one of my better edited videos for sure.
Yeah, I am a weird person for food – but I can’t remember if this place did much in the way of French choices, except maybe entrecote
Always a nice trip 
We do regular meet-ups there for lunch – it is by far the best French airport for everyone; even French pilots say it is the best airport in France!
In my case, being on the coast, I fly this at 5000ft or so and it is Class G and one has practically no radio work. I tend to file IFR still, just in case there is some low cloud around and I need the IAP, IOW need the Lille approach controller. It’s the same deal going to Alderney.
