I’ve been to many US states; however, I never happened to visit DC. Why not hop on a mid-winter weekend trip to the north?
For the sake of price, I went for Spirit as Delta charged 5 times more for pretty much the same flights. Our airplane landed in BWI airport the same time first snowflakes landed on the ground. If you are heading to Washington, get ready for a shuttle bus to the BWI railway station first and then take a train. Depending on the time of the day, the entire journey from the airport to the downtown will take you more or less one hour. Most of the trains in the US are noisy and smelly, both from inside and outside.
VFR in the aviation world stands for Visual Flight Rules, meaning that the flight is performed based on visual, not the instrumental flight control rules. Most modern small airplanes, though, are equipped with GPS and other instrumentals, allowing them to perform both VFR and IFR. While our aircraft for today is the F-GGQB Robin DR400/140B Dauphin, we will be limited to visual with a small reliance on VOR and other basic navigation technology.
As we have a flight from Nancy Airport (ENC/LFSN) to Sédan Douzy Airfield (LFSJ) and back today, we can also say that VFR stands for "Vive la France".
There was no place for a proper camera in the cabin, and I had to be a flight navigator, so just a few shots from my phone.
Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy.
