De Peel (EHDP) - 2009 CIV

[Copter]

Today (05/03/09) I saw an aircraft flying at low level near De Peel. It looked like an L-39.

In the media I read something about an excercise. I guess this is the reason the L-39 was flying around.

[witje]

Correct. Id is ES-YLL. C/s "Lion39"

Also today were two Spang F-16's, but the weather was too bad, so they decided to go back to Spang. C/s "Dagger10 and 20".

[Morpheus]

Every now and then you can have some luck at De Peel. I am not working for the GGW anymore since the summer of 2007, so I don't now how it is these days.

Last time I was there with an exercise, the ES-TLA made a fake landing. I was driving on the taxiway in my car and I saw the L-39 coming with his landinggear out and lights on. I stopped to take my camera, but it all happened so fast, that I was far to slow. The aircraft was flying at an height of 3 or 4 meters over my car. His gear was already back in. Because I din't had time to take my camera and put the telelens on it and the pretty dark weather, I made this rather bad picture with max. 55mm. (Standard lense with EOS350D). You can imagine how close the machine was to my car. To bad it wasn't an A10



Greetz, Rene