Welcome to your AOPA Luxembourg Newsletter. We hope you have had a great start to the year so far! With another year now unfurling we have lots to look forward to - many adventures, great tailwinds and smooth landings! We are excited to share with you all the upcoming events, tips and tricks - all things aviation, of course!

Don't forget to register for the upcoming AOPA Safety Seminar on Feb 3rd, registration link is below - see you there!

Cristina and Reinhard

Who is Who on the board

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

Upcoming Events 2024 - a full year of events for you!

Stay tuned for updates and trip details - **please note these are subject to change**

** 03.02.2024        AOPA Luxembourg Safety Seminar - register here

** 09.03.2024        AOPA General Assembly

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

**01.05.2024         Fly Out Midden Zeeland EHMZ

**09.-12.05.2024   Fly Out Texel EHTX

**08.06.2024         Nav Refresher

**29.-30.06.2024   Fly Out Champagne LFSW

**22.-28.07.2024   Oshkosh

**21.09.2024          AOPA+Aerosport Rally

**Be sure to check out Avia Sport's events here

Please let us know if you have any ideas, suggestions or recommendations for flyouts by emaliing us at editor@aopa.lu

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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced the conclusions of a workshop jointly hosted at EASA’s headquarters to combat incidents of GNSS spoofing and jamming.

The workshop’s high-level conclusion was that interference with satellite-based services that provide information on the precise position of an aircraft can pose significant challenges to aviation safety. Mitigating these risks requires short-, medium- and long-term measures, beginning with the sharing of incident information and remedies.

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For those who fly with Jet-A1 fuel - check out this interesting article on aerovfr.com regarding possible limitations to self-service fuelling due to cumene contained in fuels. See also here.

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Have you flown to locations where the density altitude differs a lot from the pressure altitude? Maybe more so during certain seasons?

Peter recommends an app called "autodens" - a free tool that calculates the density altitude of a location (so far only available for ios). He uses it and has found it helpful - thanks for sharing Peter! autodens apple

Wellness Corner - on the ground and in the air 

We will be highlighting a wellness aspect, providing tips or interesting links to help you on your path to maintaining a healthy body and mind - both in and out of the cockpit, on the ground and in the air.

Many of you may not be aware of this - but before every AOPA Luxembourg board meeting we do some breathwork. Yes - we breathe together! This helps us to settle the mind, connect to our bodies and be fully present in the moment.

See what Navy Seal Mark Divine, has to say about 'box breathing' - a type of pranayama, breathing technique, used in yoga. Onto the article...

And here is another article about the benefits of this type of breathwork. Continue reading...

The Chambre des Salariés has a work-related stress hotline available at +352 27 49 42 22 Mon-Fri 8am-2pm or via email at: stressberodung@cls.lu to speak with someone anonymously. The Stressberodung service allows 5 free consultations.

If you have any other great guidelines, please share them with us at editor@aopa.lu

Calling All Members

Would you like to contribute an article or share an interesting link? Is your AOPA baseball cap doing something or going somewhere and you want to share it with our entire community? Please email it to editor@aopa.lu. Keep it clean and aviation related, the editors reserve the right to omit and/or edit submitted material.