Featuring Bernard Paul, French pilot and flight club manager

Bernard is a former collègue from Alcatel and a good friend. He is managing the Flight Club in Lannion, France and on the picture below he just took delivery of a brand new plane called APM 30 Lion from Issoire Aviation, a French GA plane builder. This is a VLA (very light airplane) the European equivalent to the US LSA standard (albeit with a max take-off weight of 1654 pounds, allowing the Lion to be a 3 seater).

In July 2007 Bernard took me and my family on a flight over the picturesque Cotes d'Armor in Brittany. This event definitely influenced my decision to go into flying in my retirement years. The plane we used, in the background, is a 4 seater Robin DR-400, also a French made airplane.