From: flamm@email.tuwien.ac.at (Hartwig FLAMM)
Subject: Tripreport 19-AUG-1992
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Distribution: world 
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:53:23 GMT

After four unsuccessfull attempts and nearly 8 month passing
by, I finally did the trip which I wanted to be the first
crosscountry in my flying career. 

The flight to "Grossglockner"

The flight should start at Bad Vslau airfield (LOAV), 
located 20 miles south of Vienna. We headed out of the 
city at about 8.30am to be on the field just when they 
open at 9.00. I fetched the papers of the good old 172 
named OE-DVG and went out to the hangar. I did the preflight 
and found the tanks nearly enpty and theoil about half. We 
stopped by the fuelstadtion toped the engine with oil and 
the tanks with 33 gallons for about 5 $ (!! :-<) each.

At 8.17 UTC (10.17 loc) we where airborne. I headed SW to 
the Schneeberg (Snowmountain) climbing to FL65. Visbility
was good but not amazing. Passing Schneeberg and Rax I 
turned right and entered Styria (a state of AT) following 
the river Mur. Upon reaching the city of Leoben I turned 
northward to the Schoberpass. The peaks started to rise now,
but I had to clear the airway B 9b and the MTMA Zelteg (this 
is a military TCA), wich makes a ceiling of 7500 ft, first. 

Reaching Trieben (LOGI), I climbed on to FL85. On the field 
planes were lining up to continue on the parachuting world- 
championship. I was clear of the peaks again and turned 
westward following the river Enns. Approaching the Dachstein 
I finally climbed to FL105. We were flying now over the 
famous skiing-area of Schladming. 
Here we saw "him" coming out of the haze. The summit reaching
up to 12 461 ft and coverd with snow. I decided not to climb 
further up since poor old VG made no more than 200 ft/min. 
Thermal winds lifted me up to 11 200 ft while flying along 
the eastside of the mountain. I had planned my route over two
passes, the Hochtor in the east and the Kalser Tauern in the
west. 
There is a street over the Hochtorpass with a sightseeing-
platform on the pass. We could see the carpark full with 
cars and buses and it was nice to fly over their head and see 
then glued to the ground. I like to fly around well populated 
mountains seeing the mountaineers hanging in the walls and 
beeing waved at from the people in the huts (shelters ?). The 
dams of Kaprun are an amazing sight either.
Zell am See (LOWZ) is located in the valley north of Gross-
glockner at an Altidude of about 2500 ft. I didn't want to 
circle down 8000 ft when I could reach Salzburg (LOWS) in a 
"stretched" glide. Therefore I called WIEN INFORMATIN, toled 
them that I would diverte and filed a flightplan. (Maybee I 
post my conversation with them in the "heard on the air" 
column later)
We went on noetheast to Salzburg airport. I was glad to here 
that there was very little trafic as I dialed in the tower 
frequency. The landing was a little turbulent but no problem.
The service at the airport was good, but the landing fee was 
about 20 $! 
After having coffee and cake in the city we took off again at 
14:58 UTC. Heading out from the airport I realized that my 
Transponder has died. I decided to take the "racing track" 
home. This was (is) simply lying along the north side of the
mountains just in the flat of the valley of river Donau 
(danube). 
We touched down again in Vslau at ten past six pm local 
after a total of 3 houres and 54 minutes of flight.
It is hard to describe what I felt flying around in this 
landscape, but I hope you can imagine.....

Bye than,
           hartwig.
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