Comments on: Tips for flying VFR in Switzerland

By: mark

mark — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:18:09 +0000

hello,
I am planing flight from Poland to Langenthal In Switzerland with refueling in Pribram in Czech Republic. I will fly Bell 427 heli. Can You give me some sugestion about route through the Swiss Airspace??? Do You know is there customs on LSPL?
thanks in advance. best regards…

By: Michael Meyn

Michael Meyn — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:30:46 +0000

Hi,

I`m gliderpilot in Germany and looking for a link to find the newest( 2010?) Openair file of the swiss airspace for my PDA.

Mike

By: Ferrying AT-3 to Switzerland with PlasticPilot’s support | Plastic Pilot

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:02:29 +0000

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By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:16:30 +0000

@Tomek: two remarks: I don’t exactly know the current regulations regarding LSA’s in Switzerland. You can find more info from http://www.ecolight.ch/

Even if Switzerland is now part of the Schenggen area (movement freedom for persons) there are still customs constraints regarding where you enter / depart Switzerland. Bern has full customs service, but as far as I know, Wangen-Lachen has can only offer customs for departure, and on special request.

Hope this helps. Let me know when the trip will be completed.

By: Tomek

Tomek — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:09:03 +0000

Hi PlasticPilot,

I’m going to perform ferry flight from Italy to Bern with Very Light Aircraft called AT-3
To be honest I will cross Alps first time and it will be very kind of you giving me some advices. Look at my planed route and tell me what do you think
LIDH – LIDT- LIPB- LOWI – EDMK – LOIH – LSPV – LSZO – LSZB
It’s little bit around but thanks that altitude is lower.

Thanks in advance
Tomek

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:27:33 +0000

@Greg: flying through Bern CTR / TMA is not an issue. However VFR in Zurich CTR / TMA is usually not possible. You can ask, but be ready for an answer like “remain below airspace C of Zurich TMA”. Check a route via WIL – TRA – ZUE.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:14:42 +0000

Hi,
I plan a VFR flight from France to Czech via Switzerland and Munich,
best route via Switzerland seems to be Montreux-FRI-WIL-KLO-St. Gallen, which is almost exactly following GAFOR 21-22-13,

would that be possible assuming it goes exactly through Bern and Zurich CTRs?
how high may I fly (preference: ca. FL100, but can go up to FL200),

or what alternate routes would you suggest?
thx,
Greg from EPBC

By: PlasticPilot

PlasticPilot — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:44:51 +0000

@Ferdrik: The IFR routes over the Alps are well above what a PA28 can do. The A1 airway, as example, has an MEA at 18′000 feet over the Alps. I don’t know where from you’ll come, but what you can do is route from DJL to MTL via the A6 and then the A3 to LUC, which is one of the entry points for Cannes.

If weather is nice and you feel like, you can cancel and then fly over Grenoble Le Versoud then Gap.

Let me know when you’ll have done it.

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:28:56 +0000

Hi !

How would you cross the alps we are gona fly from Sweden to Canne, PA28 IFR would they let us over the alps on let´s say FL 120 ? Or do we need to cancel IFR and go VFR ?

Cheers

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Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:01:58 +0000

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