Welcome to your AOPA Luxembourg Newsletter. We hope you took advantage of a dry, warm automn to fly! Read below to get your news, info and tid-bits - all aviation related, of course! 

Cristina and Reinhard

Who is Who on the board

How well do you know your board members? Every issue will highlight one!

Upcoming Events

** 10.-18.11.2023  Flying Pharao - Egypt Long Range Rally and Touring

** 01.02.2024        AOPA Luxembourg Safety Seminar

** 17.-20.04.2024  AERO2024 Friedrichshafen - 30th Anniversary

IAOPA Regional Meeting in Luxembourg

AOPA Luxembourg and Eurocontrol Aviation Learning Centre hosted the IAOPA Regional Meeting on Oct 6-7, 2023.

Jim Coon, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs & Advocacy at Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association USA and Secretary General of IAOPA Worldwide joined us for the Meeting. AOPA representatives from Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iceland, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, France, Finland and the USA came to us. 
Main themes of the conference were:

• EASA GA Roadmap
• Conspicuity in U-Space
• AVGAS Future
• ADS-B in Europe
• Evolution of FCL Requirements
• UL Evolution in Europe

We will bring you details soon.

Many guests did not know Luxembourg at all. They had the occasion to learn about the the Grand Duchy and our aviation activities and they were shown around town.

Big thanks to Eurocontrol to host us on their premises and to all of AOPA Luxembourg to make this productive and friendly event happen.

In the News: Noertrange Airfield Restricted to Para Dropping Ops 

By NOTAM B4389/23 Noertrange Airfield (ELNT) has been limited to "AD LTD TO ACFT INVOLVED IN PJE. SUP WILL BE ISSUED ACCORDINGLY". The NOTAM is valid until 32.03.2024. This means that the airfield can no longer be used by other GA.

AOPA Luxembourg is investigating with the operator FAL and with DAC on the causes and the way to re-open ELNT.

Safety First ! Avoid Airspace Infringement

A steady increase of AIRSPACE INFRINGEMENTS has been observed
throughout Europe. More than 50% of the airspace infringements are
caused by General Aviation VFR traffic. In an effort to reduce the amount of infringements, everyone is invited to improve this situation.

An airspace infringement is an unauthorized penetration of a notified airspace, without prior request and obtaining approval from the controlling authority of that airspace: ATS Routes (Airways), TMA & CTR, P (Prohibited), D (Danger) and R (Restricted) areas, as well as TSA (Temporary Segregated Areas).This Skybrary article reminds you of the ins and outs of venturing into airspace not authorized for you.

Don't forget to learn all about airpace classification of the area you are flying.

Aviation Tech Talk - Skydemon on Youtube

The team at Skydemon are always updating and improving their already great software. Many of us have and use Skydemon but do we really know all of its great tips and tricks?

Stay up to date by watching their detailed how-to videos online! You can't go wrong, they are all under 1min30secs long and packed full of information.

The videos are also posted on their facebook page.

IAOPA Europe

Great news - AOPA Belgium and AOPA Türkiye are both active again! 

AOPA Belgium has a website up - check it out!

AOPA Turkiye is on facebook - check it out!