The flight back home (Tobago via Trinidad to Cayenne, French Guayana)
Round the World Flight with HB-PON 2008/09
Rolf Martin FRIEDEN & Manfred Melloh
Tue 22 Nov 2005 20:34
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04:49.1N 052:21.7W With so much impressions gained, we departed on our next leg of our long journey to Cayenne in French Guyana. For refuelling, we first had to fly to Trinidad, as there was no Avgas available at Tobago.  Overhead of Trinidad  After 4 hours over water, getting closer to the South American coast line  A CB on our way over French Guayana  Shortly before landing in Cayenne Our flight plan to French Guyana was all over international waters. The reason for this was to avoid entering into the Georgetown FIR of Guyana, to avoid the unjustifiably high ATC charges of S350 USD for a transit flight of barely 300 miles. It was a good flight in clear weather, but we could observe many storms developing over the mainland, as we headed in southeast towards our destination. administration at all! By simply showing our passports, the officials welcomed us with a friendly "Soyez les bien venu" and waved us all the way through. A few minutes later we had our rented car and were on our way to Korou, the place of the European Space Centre.  Olivier at the Korou Space Centre with an Ariane Spacecraft in the background Through arrangements by e-mail, we prearranged a visit the following day to the mission control centre, the space museum, and the launching sites of the Ariane space program. The tour was simply impressive and very professionally organized indeed.  For the next space launch, a Ariane space vehicle beeing slowly moved on rails to the launching site
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