Final destination for the day\u00a0was Milos Island. But due to the fact, that there is only a very short list of airports that carry anything else than Jet Fuel in Greece, we had to make another tech stop.<\/p>\n
Basically, you can only get Avgas in the Athens region (Megara and Athens), on the eastern edge of the Aegan (Kos and Rhodos) and in the South (Crete airports). For all the islands in between you have to carry enough fuel for the way in, the way out and obviously alternate and final reserves. For once, the trickiest part was the actual\u00a0piloting. There was a strong northerly wind, which produced severe turbulence along the coast and delivered a crosswind component of 20kts+ on the active runway 08R. But the RV-7A handled it really well, would not suggest flying to Greece to taildraggers, though ;-)<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n Statistics Final destination for the day\u00a0was Milos Island. But due to the fact, that there is only a very short list of airports that carry anything else than Jet Fuel in Greece, we had to make another tech stop. Basically, you can only get Avgas in the Athens region (Megara and Athens), on the eastern edge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[60,73],"tags":[82,87,88,91,90],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying","category-travelogues","tag-greece-2011","tag-kerkira","tag-lgkr","tag-lgmg","tag-megara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSince Athens is prohibitively expensive, this leaves Megara as the only (and what turned out to be excellent) choice. Megara is originally and still is a Greek Air Force (helicopter) base chateau gonflable<\/a> that has become the prime Greek GA airport. Other than requiring another special permission days ahead of the first visit, this was a great, efficient (30min), low-cost (no landing fees, no compulsory handling, comparably cheap Avgas) fuel stop. Quite the opposite of Foggia.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/em>Planned Distance: 194 NM
\nActually Flown Distance (TO to LDG):\u00a0199 NM
\nTop Ground Speed: 173.6 kts
\nAverage Ground Speed: 138.9 kts
\nTrue Flight Time: 01:26
\nBlock Time: 01:36<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"