We love hearing about flights to interesting places and hearing the experiences of the pilots along the way. What went well? What did you see? What was different about operating there compared to airport hops around the SF Bay Area?
San Carlos Flight Center invites in Nick Pliam, ATP, to share the story of this flight from the East Bay to Northern Europe and back last year in his Cessna Mustang. The flight was from Hayward to Northern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, France, Italy, Austria, Norway and back in July 2024. Presentation will cover general considerations, flight planning, documentation requirements, insurance, flying the North Atlantic, differences in flying in Europe, and interesting places we visited.
Nick Pliam has been dreaming about flying to Europe for decades but never thought it would happen – until last summer. His wife and daughter took the airlines and met Nick and his copilot, a recently retired airline captain, in Marseille for their Europe adventures. Nick has an ATP, CFII and MEI ratings, and he shares a Hayward based Cessna Citation Mustang. The airplane is owned by Flying Pigs Aviation LLC; the company’s chief diversity officer, a minipig named Pignella, appeared as a flying pig in the January 2023 issue of the AOPA magazine.
