Aéro-club de Saint-Omer (LFQN)
6 & 7 of September 2003

last news...

In spite of very poor weather, the first edition of our Jodel Lovers Fly-In on September 7th & 8th 2002 was a success. 44 crews had booked, 26 made the trip to Saint-Omer (16 Jodel). 14 came from abroad : Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and UK.

The flying club has decided to organise the second edition this year and hopes that the fly-in will become an annual event...

This meeting is dedicated to all Jodel lovers. All kind of planes are welcome, even if our objective is to gather a majority of Jodels... The fly-in is not an "Airshow", public are not admitted and the airfield remains open to traffic during the two days.

Participating pilots are invited for a meal on Sunday the 7th September (at lunchtime). Prior booking is required. The cost for the lunch is 10 € including drinks, payable on the day. To help with the organisation, would pilots who intend to participate kindly inform us before September 1st (a registration form will be very soon available on this page for on-line booking).

For pilots coming from remote locations, a welcome comity will be provided from Saturday afternoon. Accommodation and meals rest at your own charge. We can arrange transport from the airfield to Saint-Omer and also to the War and rockets history museum located around 5 kilometres from the airfield.

SAINT-OMER WIZERNES (LFQN)
Visual landing chart (jpg - 158 ko)
Map of North of France (gif - 111 ko)

- 09/27 asphalt runway, 597 metres (no taxiway)
- 03/21 grass runway, 660 metres (80 metres wide, taxiway on the east side)
Since August 19th, the use of the grass runway is restricted by NOTAM (trees at the North of the airfield are too high with respect to the regulations). Runway 03 is usable for landing only and runway 21 is usable for take-off only.
All circuits : Left Hand at 1000 ft AGL

For aircraft coming from non-Shengen countries, the airfield exceptionally provides customs facilities for the week-end. Participants concerned by these facilities are asked to send us details about people on board : surname, forename, and date of birth. These information can be added in the "Comment" field of the here after registration form or sent separately by e-mail or by fax. The flying club is in charge of sending the list of participants with all information to the customs services. Please keep in mind that prior registration to the fly-in is mandatory in order to benefit from these customs facilities.

Accomodation is at the own charge of participants.

There are few hotels at Saint-Omer (see the list) and they are often full. That is why we suggest to participants to book as soon as possible...

Camping is possible on the airfield. For those who want to do so, please state it with the registration.

Some useful links :

Aéro-club de Saint-Omer
Aérodrome, Plateau des Bruyères
BP 7, 62967 Longuenesse Cedex, France

Acknowledgements : The Jodel drawings illustrating these pages have been made by Alexandra ZAINAL and are used with her kind permission. Our thanks also to Jean BOSSY who gave us the authorization to reproduce an extract of the "VFR France" map.

Aéro-club de Saint-Omer
Aérodrome, Plateau des Bruyères
BP 10007 - 62967 Longuenesse Cedex