La Bochet

Here’s another teaser pre my MSFS 2024 flight commemorating the tenth anniversary of the epic real flight that my friend Wim and I did up the west coast of France. The pics show la Bochet, another small private airfield at which we stopped over briefly on day 5 having left Saint Brevin les Pins at the mouth of the Loire for our final destination of the day, Mouchamps in the Vendée.

We were met by Mr Gautier who did a 35 km round trip bringing us sandwiches, which we declined as we hadn’t long eaten, and cold drinks, and then kindly took Wim to fill up our jerricans with fuel. Mr Gautier did not own an aircraft himself but he told us that his friend flew a Mooney into the airfield. It doesn’t look as though he still does because Google Earth now shows that the runway is half the length that it then was and would now be too short for a Mooney to land on.

We took off after a stay-over of about two hours to head for Mouchamps. I only took two photographs at la Bochet so my scenery relies on how I remember it as being but my efforts are a great improvement on Microsoft’s idea of what’s there.