The 8th stage continues on May 1st

In the time of the airshow Matevz has done all needed maintenance on the aircraft, changed oil, oil filter and the spark plug, he has also checked the entire plane. Due to challenging conditions of flying over Saudi Arabia and Pakistan the airplane is very dirty yet general cleaning won`t be performed until landing in Slovenia. Today Matevz put airplane out of the hangar and refueled it to continue the flight and now we all hope project is going on from the 1st of May. Weather in the last two days seemed appropriate to continue the flight to north, yet today weather has been forecasted to get worse on tuesday.

On this stage there is planned landing in the town of Hohhot in the mountains of Inner Mongolia, still being in China. The flight is going to take around four hours because of the wind in opposite direction. Permissions to fly to Russia has been all dealed, yet the one for the flight over Mongolia still isn`t. We are trying our best to get it, so there would not be any delays.

We would like to congratulate organisers of the Airshow in China, who done it well and also hang the Slovene national flag out, what is great honor, because Matevz officially represented Republic of Slovenia on such a great and important airshow in China.

8. etapa se nadaljuje 1. maja

Matevž zaključuje svoj obisk letalske prireditve na Kitajskem in se jutri odpravlja naprej proti severu.

V času letalskega mitinga je opravil potreben servis na letalu, zamenjal olje, oljni filter in svečke ter pregledal celotno letalo... Zaradi zahtevnih pogojev letenja preko Saudske arabije in Pakistana je letalo precej umazano, in bo na generalno čiščenje potrebno pocakati, da se vrne v Slovenijo. Danes je letalo prestavil iz hangarja, natocil gorivo za nadaljevanje poti in sedaj vsi držimo pesti, da se bo projekt nadaljeval 1. maja. Vreme je v zadnjih dveh dneh izgledalo primerno za let naprej na sever, danes pa so ravno za torek napovedali poslabšanje. 

Na novi etapi je planiran pristanek v kraju Hohhot v hribih Notranje Mongolije, kar je še Kitajska. Polet bo predvidoma trajal slabe 4 ure, ker je napovedano precej vetra v nos letala. Dovoljenje za vstop in letenje po Rusiji je urejeno, za prelet Mongolije pa še vedno ne, vendar se trudimo, da bo tudi to dovoljenje prišlo v pravem času in ne bo dodatnih zamud.

Radi bi pohvalili organizatorje letalskega mitinga na kitajskem, ki so se potrudili in izobesili tudi slovensko zastavo, kar je velika čast, saj je Matevž uradno predstavljal državo Slovenijo na tako velikem in pomembnem letalskem dogodku na Kitajskem.