Event and Trip Reports

Four days, two countries, two special airfields and plenty of Mooney spirit

From 10 to 13 September 2026, this year’s EMPOA Mooney Tour took us to Lausanne and Lyon. The tour was organised by David Kromka, who put together a varied programme combining flying, food, culture and, of course, plenty of Mooney spirit.

What a fantastic weekend!

From 8–10 May 2026, EMPOA members and friends gathered in Franconia for this year’s Annual General Meeting – and Bamberg proved to be the perfect host for an unforgettable event full of aviation spirit, friendship, culture and excellent food.

Tina and I flew our Mooney N228RM around the world between beginning of May and mid-August 2025. A report that is readable online can be found here: Heading East

Moreover, with Tina's help, I created an ebook about our trip, which you can download for free.

Ines Haselmann kindly agreed to take care of the organization, and very quickly more than 30 participants had registered.

This year, our Mooney Club's annual general meeting took us east to Lubin and Wrocław. Our member Ingo Rösch hosted the event, organizing the meeting as well as a tourist and culinary program. Once again, we were very lucky with the weather, enjoying warm late summer temperatures and almost cloudless skies throughout our stay.

In mid-June, it was that time again: our annual Mooney trip was just around the corner, and as in previous years, we could count on the beautiful weather we had ordered. Stable high pressure was forecast to accompany us during our four days in Austria and Hungary, making flying a pleasure.

Our traditional EMPOA Christmas meeting took place in the Bavarian capital this time.
Nicola Voss and Markus Balser agreed to host the weekend early on in the year. A guided tour of Munich's old town and a visit to the branch of the Deutsches Museum in Schleißheim were planned.

The annual general meeting of our Mooney Club took place in Fontenay-le-Compte this year, not far from La Rochelle on the French Atlantic coast. It was hosted by our Vice-President Peter de Grove, who organized the meeting as well as a tourist, oenological and culinary supporting programme.

This year, the EMPOA trip organized by David Kromka took us north. Kalmar in Sweden and Mariehamn, the island between Sweden and Finland, were on the agenda.

Tina and I flew our Mooney N228RM from Europe to Australia and back between mid-October 2023 and mid-March 2024. A report that is readable online can be found here: Down to Oz

Moreover, with Tina's help, I created an ebook about our trip, which you can download for free.

David Kromka

Once again a good number of Speedmachines set off for Picardy in France on June 23. 17 Mooneys had landed at Eu-Tréport-Mers airfield in the early afternoon. On the way there, there were only a few small showers to fly around in the east, because in contrast to the previous day with heavy thunderstorms, it had once again turned out to be a very nice sunny flying day.

Our Mooniac Manfred Giebel accomplished a real miracle: managing to put together a weekend program with culture and delicious food in the city of his home airfield Bayreuth within a really very short time period.

This year's Annual General Meeting of our honorable association took place in Mannheim. Planes with correct tail design from all over Europe arrived in the course of Friday afternoon. Once again weather cooperated to the outmost and allowed for flights under both VFR and IFR without any restriction.