Last weekend I traveled to France to attend La Ferte-Alais.
This is what we saw:

09:30 – 09:36
2 savage
1Souricette
1 Jodel L9
2 Pendulaires a moteur

09:36 – 09:44
3 Jodel 112
1 NC 856
2 Baby Jodel
1 Croses
1 Aeronca
1 Louis Perret Taupin
1 CP 301
1 Leopoldoff L7 Colibri

09:44 – 09:50
1 Scheibe Falke SF-28

09:50 – 10:11
1 NORD 100
1 NORD 3202
1 PT-13 Steerman
2 Bücker BÜ 133 Jungmeister
2 Bücker BÜ 131 Jungman
1 N3N Navy

10:11 – 10:34
1 CAP 20
1 Marchetti SF-260
1 YAK 52
1 YAK 52D
2 Pitts SIS

10:34 – 10:51
3 North AmericanT-6 texans
1 North American NA-68
1 North American NA T-28 Fennec

10:51 – 11:09
1 DH.89 Dragon Rapide
1 DHC1 Chipmunk
1 DH.100 Vampire

11:09 – 11:27
1 Stampe SV4V
2 Morane Saulnier MS 317
1 Morane Saulnier MS230

11:27 – 11:37
2 Robinson R22 arial ballet

11:37 – 11:44
YAK 3

11:44 – 11:50
DG 500T

11:50 – 12:08
4 YAK 54

12:08 – 13:05
Lunch

13:05
DC3 + Pitts + Parachutes take off
13:20 – 13:37
12 Parachutes
1 Pitts SC2
1 DC3 Dakota

13:37 – 13:53
3 TB 30 Epsilon

13:23 – 14:03

1 Bleriot XI
1 Bleriot XI-2
1 Morane Saulnier Type H
1 Caudron GIII
(Too windy, taxi display only)

14:03 – 14:29
2 S.E.5A
1 S.E.5
2 Focker DR1 Triplane
1 Spad XIII
1 Boeing PT-13 Steerman
1 Morane Saulinier MS.138
1 Leopoldoff L7 Colibri
1 BAB Bü 131
6 Bücker Bü 133
1 Stampe SV4

14:29 – 14:37
2 Bücker Bü 131 Jungman

14:37 – 15:19
1 Stinson Releint
2 Beech 18
1 Dewoitine D.27
1 Waco UPF7
1 Lockheed Electra Junio L-12
2 Beech Stagger wings
1 Focke Wulf FW-44 Stieglitz

15:19 – 15:43
1 Cessna 337 (020)
1 Cessna L19 Bird Dog
1 Douglas AD4N Skyraider
1 OV10 Bronco
1 North American F86 Sabre

15:43 – 16:09
1 Junkers Ju52
1 Fiesler Fi 156 Storch
3 Yak 11
1 Yak 3U
1 Yak 3
1 Polikarpov PO2

16_09 – 16:16
1 Yak 55 M


16:16 – 16:32
3 Marcel Dassault MD311 Flamant
1 Falcon 2000

16:32 – 16:39
1 Zlin 526 AFS

16:39 – 17:37
1 Curtis Hawk H-75
1 Morane 406d-3801
1 Messerschmitt Bf-109G
1 Boeing B17G
1 North American P-51D
2 Piper L4
1 North American p-51C
1 Bell p-39 Aerocobra (did not fly)
1 Grumman F4F Wildcat
1 Chance Vought F4U Corsair

17:37 – 17:45
1 Cri Cri

17:45 – 18:13
2 DH82 Tiger Moths
1 Spitfire MKV
1 Spitfire MK XIX

18:13 – 18:23
1 Alphajet

18:23 – 18:45
12 North American T-6 Texans
3 North American T-28
1 Yak 3U
1 P-51D
1 AD4N Skyraider
1 F4U Corsair
1 Spitfire Mk XIX

18:55
12 Texans
3 T-28
1 Yak 3U
1 P-51D
1 Skyraider
1 Corsair
1 Spitfire MK XIX

The above taxied in and turned to face the crowd wing tip to wing tip. Stopped, chocks in and then all advanced throttles to about half power all together and ran like that for a couple of minutes and then all chopped to cut off at the same time. The noise………………..

What can I report?

Fly bys, lower than the UK. Flying direct at the crowd, but not crossing the crowd line. 75% of aircraft did a gear, flaps and if they had one, speed brake out/down slow speed flyby at about 50 feet.
Great selection of aircraft. Unlike Duxford, a flight line walk costs, if memory serves about 8 pounds. Here the aircraft are positioned so that you can get up and close without the need to pay to go through the fence. The DC3 and Ju52 where open to visits. Apart from a lunch break, we where in France after all, there was no pause in the flying from 09:30 until 18:55.

Cost 26 Euros, including parking and a program (take note Duxford!!!!!)
Camping cost me 12 Euros for 2 nights. Toilets, needless to say where “French”
Parking, in and out in 20 minutes. More police directing traffic than I have ever seen. Very well done.

Rip off factor……NONE!!!!!
Food and drink was priced at a normal cost. I.E. a beer cost no more than in a local pub. Burger, same as the local burger bar. Ice cream, same as the local supermarket. Badges, models and the usual air display assortment of “stuff”, cost in Euros what you would pay in pounds in the UK.

If you can make it out to Ferte-Alais, do it. You will not be disappointed. Just do not decide to travel on a Friday afternoon through Paris……..4 hours to travel 20 kilometres.

Matt

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It is a Bank Holiday here in Germany, pictures end of the week. Sorry, I am a wet film man.

Matt

PS Does anyone know the airfield code for Aerodrome de Cerny-La Ferte-Alais or if it is even in FS9?

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Having been to OW and seen how it is done, I was a little surprised at that too. I would have really liked to have seen the Cauldron fly.

Matt

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Thanks for finding the airport code Omag, shame that FS9 does not have this little strip in its data base. It is a plateau airport and some "real life“ approaches looked "interesting"

Matt