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Flight from the Shetland Islands
From : Geoffrey W. Raebel || e-mail : raebel@ozemail.com.au
First World Youth Games in Moscow
From : Evgeniy BAKALOV || e-mail : bakalov@glasnet.ru
Looking for digital airport data
From : Joe Harleman || e-mail : joeharleman@worldnet.att.net

Flight from the Shetland Islands
From : Geoffrey W. Raebel
I am looking at the feasibility of conducting a flight from the Shetland Islands back to the English Channel through France, Holland, Denmark and Sweden and coastwise around Norway to Finland and Russia. My intention is to emulate a flight by RAAF Hampden Bombers in 1942. If I do it my intention is to stay 'real', the flight would be VFR with no record attempts.

I am familiar with Australian terms WAC (Wide Area Chart) ERSA ((Enroute supplement (airfields)) and VTC (Visual Terminal Chart) for flight planning. Are you able to advise whether these are available for the areas mentioned, what the terminology is and where they may be obtained.

I fly under the Australian Ultralight Federation and have recently published a book on the Australian Airforce in Russia.

Thanks.

First World Youth Games in Moscow
From : Evgeniy BAKALOV
Dear Sir,
In accordance with the initial information about the parachutist expedition to the North Pole I provide you with the following details: On 29 December 1997 our expedition received an official status and was included into official preparation and realization program of the first World Youth Games in Moscow conducted under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee.

For most countries this event will become a national record of extreme types of sport.

Hoisting a national flag and a flag of your companies (firms) on the North Pole will consolidate the prestige of your companies (firms) in front of the international society. Mass media that ensures information support of the World Youth Games will provide large-scale presentation of this event to the whole of the world.

Technical support of the expedition permits to deliver to the North Pole 5 tons of cargo for conducting advertising, trick (stunt) and commercial video filming and photographing.

Professional cameramen and photographers will take part in the expedition. It will be possible to conduct unprecedented advertising photography that will permit to create an exclusive advertising product for your companies (firms).

Unordinary advertisement of your production (your items) (of your firm) in the extreme conditions of the North Pole will for sure raise interest among potential buyers (partners) and permit to raise the level of prestige of your companies (firms) (trade mark).

Details of the expedition: Time of the expedition: from 15 to 23 April 1998 Number of participants: up to 100 persons Parachute jump and drop of cargo from the IL-76 aircraft

Program of the action:

15 April – arrival of participants to Moscow, meeting of participants at the airport, accommodation in the *** star hotel (doubles), registration of the participants, briefing, dinner;
16 April – breakfast, en route to the airport, loading of the IL-76 aircraft, air trip to Khatanga (5 hour flight), accommodation in the Khatanga hotel (doubles, rooms for 5, with bathrooms located on the same floor separately from the rooms), dinner, rest;
17 April – preparation for the North Pole expedition, execution of one familiarization parachute jump in Khatanga (from Mi-8 helicopters), acclimatization, (alimentation-three meals a day);
18 April – breakfast, departure of the advance party to the North Pole, loading of the IL-76 aircraft, beginning of the expedition to the North Pole;
19-20-21 April – days for withdrawal from the Pole, extra days reserved for adverse weather conditions;
22 April – air trip from Khatanga to Moscow (by IL-76 aircraft), en route to the hotel, accommodation in the *** star hotel (doubles), conference on results of the expedition (TV, newspapers, radio), presentation of diplomas, cocktail party;
23 April – breakfast, en route to the airport, departure for the home countries.

The Final Price of participation in the expedition: The price includes – meeting at the Moscow airport, accommodation in the hotels, food for the whole period of stay in Russia, air trips, one familiarization jump and jump to the North Pole, withdrawal, return air trip to Moscow, en route to the airport and seeing-off.

parachutist - $ 6,000;
tandem-instructor + passenger (2 persons) - $ 11,000;
tandem-passenger (landing with our instructor) - $ 10,000;
cargo parachuting - $ 10,000 as per each 100 kg cargo (including cost of cargo delivery back to Moscow);
visiting the North Pole without parachute jump (for tourists, service personnel,
paramotor pilots, journalists, etc.)- $ 6 000 (for 1 person).
In case of group request – every 11-th participant will come – free of charge.

Payment can be done in two phases:

50 % before 1 March 1998 (bank account will be given additionally)
50 % on arrival of the group in Moscow on 15 April 1998.

To forward a request and facilitate processing of entry and authorization papers please send us the following information about the participants:

First and last name (as written in the passport)
Date of Birth (Day/month/year)
Country of origin (citizenship)
Number of jumps (for parachute jumpers)
License (for parachute jumpers)
Insurance (for parachute jumpers, passengers, escort, pilots of motor-gliders, and etc.)
Contact address, fax and telephone number, E-mail.

Equipment necessary for the expedition:

Complete set of parachute equipment (for the jumps you must use only wing parachute).
Worm cloths both for the jumps and for the stay on the North Pole (footwear, monkey-suits, jackets, gloves, sweaters, wool facemasks, sunglasses, jump glasses, hard hat). The following temperatures should be taken into consideration: on the ice floe – up to minus 35grad.C, in the air – up to minus 50grad.C.
Warm individual sleeping bag.
Spirits are taken on personal decision (It's an item for real fans!!!)
Miscellaneous – according to personal needs, but you should not forget that each member of the expedition will be responsible for carrying his personal luggage and baggage).

We recommend you to get in touch with National Sport Committees of your countries for advertising, information and most probably financial support for your parachute jumpers.
You have very little time at your disposal to send your request, expedite your decision-making activities and you will become a participant of an unprecedented event.
BLUE SKIES!
We invite all interested persons to send preliminary requests, questions and proposals:
Evgeniy BAKALOV - Project Manager
E-mail: bakalov@glasnet.ru
Tel/Fax: +7 (095) 393-6802

Oleg PRODAN
E-mail: icholding@glasnet.ru
Tel/Fax: +7 (095) 148-6474

"Para-World" office:
24 k 2, Preobrajenskiy Val Street, Moscow 107061, RUSSIA
Fax : +7 (095) 963-4002
Tel : +7 (095) 963-2804
E-mail: goodvin@aha.ru
Web Site: www.aha.ru/~goodvin

Looking for digital airport data
From : Joe Harleman
I am looking for digital airport data outside the US. For example - latitude, longitude, airport - number/length, navigation frequencies, etc.
Do you know of any source?
Thanks in advance.

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