A few posts ago I've told you about my experience on my trip to Switzerland. The Airline, aircraft, airports, etc. Now this post is to talk about something a bit different from this Alpine paradise.
Those who are related to the business aviation or at least have knowledge about the subject are well familiar with one or two Swiss aerodromes such as Samedan at St. Moritz. But Switzerland isn't just business aviation with aerodromes near the ski resorts. As a matter of fact on a train trip from Geneva Aeroport to Brig, a small city in the Canton of Valais I saw 5 airfields and could count more two that are the Geneva Airport and de Lausanne Aerodrome. I mean this was only in a space of a Inter regional train 2 hour trip, amazing. Two of the airfields had a well treated and seem in top condition grass strip, the rest were all with concrete or tarmac runways.
But of course that an airfield without aircraft isn't interesting but fact is that except one aerodrome all the others had light airplanes, light helicopters and a huge quantity of gliders, I must say that I'm in live with this. One of these airfields is Sion Airport witch is a regional airport not bigger than Cascais in Portugal and approximately the same type of normal operation such as air schools, business jets, commuters and some helicopters, here there was also helicopters and airplanes for crop dusting. Interesting.
On the first day of my time in Lausanne suddenly I heard a familiar noise that sounded like a radial aircraft engine and as I was in a very beautiful wood tower in a high point of Lausanne soon I've started looking at the sky for the origin of this noise. Small sparkling in the eyes and there he was, a very beautiful Navy Blue WWII aircraft. Now that's one thing that I wasn't prepared to see in Lausanne. First with the cloudy sky and the distance I thought that the "flying musem" was something like a Curtiss Hell Diver but in a research here at home I found out that it is a General Motors TBM3.
And what a machine!
Resuming if I found out that the swiss living conditions are very good there are no doubts about it. Now, would I leave Portugal to go a live there in the case of a Flying Job? You bet I will.
3 comments:
Boas, chamo-me Joao e trabalho numa companhia aerea suica, Farnair, tenciono comecar o meu curso de piloto em breve. Se precisar de algumas dicas de companhias e afins e so avisar. Cumps e bons voos
Olá Pancha e bem vindo. Sem dúvida que a Suiça se mostrou muito interessante para mim nesta visita, ainda por cima não só estive a "viver" em Lausanne por uma semana como privei com pessoas que fazem desse belo país a sua morada. Deu para perguntar o funcionamento de coisas simples e práticas do dia a dia, mas relativamente à aviação não tive essa oportunidade por isso irei com certeza fazer uso da ajuda que me oferece.
Já consultei alguns websites com anúncios de algumas companhias sediadas na Suiça e até encontrei uns quantos anúncios pelo que penso que o mercado esteja bastante mais aberto do que o de terras Lusas, estou certo?
Mais uma vez muito bem vindo e se for necessário algum tipo de ajuda por causa do início de curso é só pedir também, estarei ao dispor no que me for possível.
Ha e verdade reparei que e mecanico do Lynx, na BA6 provavelmente, fui ai despachante de trafego aero(FAP) durante 4 anos, sai em 2009. Cpts
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