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Dear Taifun pilots, here is the report about the last part of my journey. Medulin is a tourist town. I spent the largest part of the following Sunday (4.9) there, with breakfast, lunch, reading, writing. I also tried to swim in the afternoon, but noticed that I had only little time left and that it was a long way to walk until the water got deeper. Then I made a bicycle tour from Medulin to Pula airport (during which I got wet in a heavy rain shower) for meeting my wife who arrived with Lufthansa at 18:30. I called a Taxi for taking us to Fazana (a small town opposite to Brijuni), and from there a ferry took us to the Brijuni island. I was a bit annoyed when they told me that I had to leave my bicycle at the station in Fazana, because they lease bicycles on Brijuni and do not want concurrence. If I had known that I would have tried to enter the ferry with my bike folded and packed. I doubt that the ward would have recognized it as a bicycle... Brijuni is a really nice place. It was once a residence of Tito, the former leader of Yugoslavia, who apparently had a quite luxurious lifestyle and also invited a lot of glamorous persons there. Nowadays it is a national park. Tourists who are not staying overnight on the island will usually visit only one day because the tickets for the ferry are quite expensive. We, however, had our conference taking place in Hotel Istria on the island and therefore had booked a room in the same hotel. So we could walk and swim during the lunch break or in the evening. Here are some pictures taken there. Even Roman ruins are there. Friday, 9.9, was the last day of our conference which finished at 12 o'clock. After a last walk, we boarded our ferry and were soon in Fazana again. We had a lunch together, then a taxi took us to Pula airport from where Maria traveled home to Germany. For me it was too late to leave on this day, and furthermore the Alpes where stored up with clouds from the north. So I booked an appartement in Pula city and stayed there overnight. A night walk through Pula led me also to their spectacular Roman amphitheatre. As you can see, as in former times there are sports event taking place there also nowadays:-) On Saturday morning, I checked the weather and also got meteorological advice by telephone from the German Met Service DWD. Unfortunately, the north of the Alpes was still in clouds, with the weather slowly getting better from the west. Therefore, I made a plan to travel only to some airport in Northern Italy lying more to the west, for having a good start on Sunday. Then I went to fetch my Taifun from LDPM and to start my journey home. Here are some pictures of the airport Medulin which has a spectacular windsock. First, I had to fly to Pula (outside Schengen) again for customs. Briefly after noon, I started my flight from there towards Venice-Lido/LIPV (lying inside Schengen) which also has custom service with prior notice. Unfortunately, immediately after take-off I noticed a problem, namely that the propeller pitch control did not work and remained in start position. It would not have made much sense trying to cross the Adria without working pitch control (too slow, too bad for the motor), so I landed again and tried to remove the problem. Luckily(?) the issue had turned up before and I knew what to do (namely moving the block for the speed sensor closer to the nuts of the propeller flange) and had all tools necessary for the job with me. After 1-2 hours work in hot sun, everything was ok again. Maybe there was a bit of luck in this problem appearing, because in the meantime I was told that my camera had remained in Medulin! Therefore I flew again to Medulin, and then again to Pula for customs (and, this time, also for refueling), and only around 14 UTC I took off for Venice. Everything went well as you can see from my happy face flying over the Adria. Arriving in Lido I decided to stay there because it was already late. Looking for a room I noticed that only a few rather expensive rooms were available, because it was the last day of the Venice film festival. Thus, I

Dear fellow Taifuners, even more time has passed and, in fact, I have already returned from my journey with the TN to my hometown Erlangen one week ago. Nevertheless, this report covers only the next part of my trip and a report on the final part will follow. Having arrived in Sibiu on Sunday, 28.8, 14 UTC (which means 17:00 LT in Sibiu), I met with my wife and my daughter who arrived at about 18:30 LT in Sibiu with a commercial flight. We then had some difficulty to obtain the car which I had booked using rentalcars.com because somehow my booking had not made it to the local provider. Only after 20:00 we succeeded and left the airport with our car for driving into the city Sibiu. This city Sibiu/Hermannstadt was founded by German settlers during the Austro-Hungarian empire around 1200 and is a really nice city (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibiu). We stayed in the city centre for two days in the "Casa Luxemburg", then we visited the family of my wife (her mother and brother) who live in the village Axente Sever which is located about 50 km north of Sibiu, and stayed with them for another two days. On Thursday, 1.9, the departure from Sibiu back to Germany was scheduled for my wife and daughter and I wanted to travel back to Germany as well, because there was a family celebration honouring the 60th anniversary of my parent's wedding taking place on Saturday, 3.9. I brought my family to the airport around midday and went to prepare my Taifun. Then the problem I mentioned in my previous mail turned up. Although it is written in the Romanian AIP that Sibiu has AVGAS, I was told that there was also an active NOTAM which said the opposite (in fact, this NOTAM is active since several years!). So it was rather clear that I could not risk traveling to Balaton/LHSM airport directly (as I had planned), but that I would have to make a further stop somewhere in between. Unpleasant, but still not a show-stopper. Unfortunately, I made another error then and underestimated the influence of a bad weather region moving from south to north over the Carpathian mountains west from Sibiu. Indeed, heading west from Sibiu I was stopped by really bad weather after about 50 NM over Deva/LRDV, see Picture 1. I tried to fly around the rain zone in southern direction, but gave up after another 10 NM and returned to Sibiu, since this is a well-known place for me and I could stay with my relatives. Looking again at the weather chart (especially a rain radar which I had not studied before my flight - stupid me) I saw that (since the bad weather was arriving from the south) it probably would have been possible to fly north to Cluj-Napoca/LRCL first and then west to Debrecen/LHDC where I had already been. But now it was too late. Now I lived through two days of very bad weather in Sibiu. I used the time to fuel my Taifun with gasoline from the gas station which was a bit tricky but the personnel (especially the chief operator) was very helpful. Only on Saturday, 3.9, it was possible to fly again and then also only starting from midday. At this late time, it was clear that flying back to Germany would not make much sense, because even under the best circumstances I would have arrived at that family celebration only quite late in the evening. And on the next day, Sunday, my wife and I had planned to travel already to Brijuni in Croatia, where a conference on mathematics was about to start on Monday. Thus, I decided to fly directly from Sibiu to Pula/LDPL which is the airport nearest to Brijuni. At the beginning this flight was tricky. The clouds were at 3000 AMSL which was about as high as the Carpathian mountain range is in that region (see Picture 2,3). I did not dare to climb over the clouds, because the mountain tops were quite mixed with a 7/8 cloud layer which is not a comfortable thing to have below an aircraft, and also because the tops of the clouds were, at least partially, quite high. Fortunately, after the West Carpathians the weather rapidly got better. Over Hungary, it even developped into a nice gliding weather and I could economise on fue

Hi, I am a little late, because I did have a lot to do in the last week, but here is an update of my journey. Bad V?slau is a nice town, but mostly for recreation, so I traveled on Thursday, 25.8, to Wien, did some sightseeing like the palace and had only a bath and dinner in the thermal bath in Bad V?slau. On Friday, 26.8, I then traveled from Bad V?slau to Buda?rs (LHBS). It was an unproblematic flight in perfect weather. Buda?rs is a nice old airport with a very good and long grass runway a bit away from Budapest. On the next day (Saturday, 27th), I traveled to Budapest visiting an old friend who is a diplomat at the Mexican embassy. We had a nice day walking around in Budapest and could even see enormous fireworks in honour of Hungary's national day which were postponed for one week because of bad weather. Here are people waiting for the fireworks distributed all along on both sides of the Danube (there were also several simultaneous copies of the fireworks along the Danube) On Sunday, 28th August, I then traveled via Debrecen[*] to Sibiu/LRSB. I commited an error by not refueling in Debrecen/LHDC (you will see why later). The flight through Hungary was only flat terrain and not very interesting, but in Romania the West Carpathian mountain range provided a nice landscape which allowed even for some thermal support for my flight. Here is a picture of the TN in Sibiu, already "clothed". I will report on the next days of my journey in some further parts. Best regards, Nicolas [*] I had to go there because of custom services on the controlled airport Debrecen. Maybe customs could have been done also at Buda?rs with earlier notice, but I did not receive an answer to my request on Saturday early afternoon.

Hi, after two years of pandemic mismanagement, we can travel around rather freely again in Europe. So I am just in the course towards the East with my Taifun about which I will report. I have started in Biberach/Riss (EDMB) yesterday and arrived in Bad Voeslau (LOAV) which is located near Vienna. Today I'll visit Vienna, and tomorrow I want to continue my trip towards Buda?rs (LHBS, near Budapest). Attached are two pictures of the TN after landing in Voeslau. Regards, Nicolas