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Brief final runway nine at LFKK
Montmeilleur boasts one of the finest mountain runways in France, but it is a mountain runway with a 10% slope, so beware, you may want a check-out before flying in. However, since it is a private airfield and not an “altisurface or altiport”, you do not need the French “Pilote de Montagne” license.
Once you are aware of the peculiarities of mountain flying you will detect a entire fresh facet to aviation – mountain airfields everywhere. Some so challenging that you may want to fly there with an instructor, some effortless enough, and with fine restaurants, to fly there at a moment’s notice. For ultralights France offers unlimited possibilities – an estimated two thousand airfields and the possibility to land everywhere with the property possessor’s permission.
If you want to fly to Montmeilleur with an aircraft you will have to pack in a PPR form required by the local French authorities and send it to us, we will pass it on to the Préfecture. There is no such requirement for ultralights.
Please send it by fax to +43 one 35 sixty 600 ninety nine or by mail to [email protected]
Once you’ve sent in the form you are good for as many landings as you want and there is no expiration to the authorisation. Don’t expect an response from the Préfecture.
Before flying in to Montmeilleur, please consult the ICAO charts, as there are a regional park and a national park in the surroundings with overfly confinements.
Please also consult the treatment chart and the airfield chart for Montmeilleur.
Should the weather be iffy or if it has rained recently, give us a call under +33 nine 64 ninety two 62 99, if no response, call the caretaker, Mr. Cosson under +33 six 85 ninety six 93 46. Some French will come in handy when talking to him.
When flying in, you might consider contacting Marseille Info on 124.Five MHz when outside of managed airspace, tho’ you will lose them below eight thousand ft. Once you have left cruise altitude it is a good idea to switch to the mountain frequency of 130.0 MHz and to broadcast your position and intentions every ten minutes or so. When you are five NM from Montmeilleur airfield, radio AA (auto-information) is mandatory.
Montmeilleur is effortless to find, the castle and the runway are pretty visible. However, there is a lot of greenery around, so coming from the North you might want to aim for the sugarloaf-shaped mountain (Le Ménil) about three NM west of the highest peak around, the Obiou.
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Traffic pattern at Montmeilleur Aim for the Ménil mountain
The downwind is on a two hundred seventy degree heading just north of the Ménil. If you are coming from the west, aim slightly to the right of the castle, you should see the airfield. It is marked with red-white-red riders and has a striped windsock.
Montmeilleur has the ICAO code LFKK. You will find it on French IGN aviation maps and on the excellent Carte Bossy. Unluckily, the ICAO code has not made it into DGAC or various GPS databases, so you will have to come in the coordinates by hand:
Elevation at the platform is two thousand nine hundred ninety two ft or nine hundred twelve m NN
Elevation at the runway threshold is two thousand eight hundred thirty ft or eight hundred sixty three m NN
Come in the traffic pattern midfield at four thousand ft and proceed to a right forearm downwind to the south of the airfield. Please avoid all villages and reduce power.
The airfield is five hundred sixty m by fifteen m, with the 10% to 7% slope it is the equivalent of abt. One thousand m, so it is pretty long, no need to set down right on the threshold. You might want to aim for a landing point in the very first third of the airfield. To slick your rotation you might consider leaving some power with one thousand five hundred RPM on the prop. Be alert for some healthy downdrafts on brief final.
Once you have landed, please put your plane out of harm’s way. You can tie it down in the grassy area near the hangar or park it on the tarmac, with park brakes on and with chocks on the wheels – you will find some in the hangar.
Now French administrative rigmarole: please register on the list provided in the mailbox in the hangar.
Fuel and transportation
AVGAS and JET fuels are available at Grenoble le Versoud airport LFLG and at Gap airport LFNA AVGAS from time to time at Aspres airfield LFNJ. MOGAS is available in our village, Mens, three km away and we’ll be glad to help you out with jerricans and transportation.
For those arriving by air we will gladly provide a car for local transportation and shopping.
If you would like to visit with us, please give us a call on 130.0 MHz when flying in or call us on the phone +33 four 76 thirty four 87 74. If we’re here, we’ll be glad to see you and you are welcome to some tea, coffee or water and, if we are not submerged in work, a tour of the property.
Want to stay? Montmeilleur offers three spacious cottages and four apartments for rent. Look them up under c ottage and apartment rental and mail us for special aviator rates: [email protected].
Please also consult links for other tourist facilities in the area.
Before leaving, please inject your departure time in the list. When taking off you must keep the runway heading for two km, that is the very first low rise, and please reduce take-off power as soon as feasible. Again, AA is mandatory.
For flight plan cancellation or to file and open a flight plan you can call the Lyon AIS under four 72 twenty two 56 seventy six or four 72 twenty two 56 78.