{"id":2930,"date":"2016-10-17T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T07:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2016-10-17T08:26:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T07:26:25","slug":"update-zd7vde-st-helena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/2016\/10\/17\/update-zd7vde-st-helena\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE ZD7VDE &#8211; St Helena"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n<center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><\/p>\n<h3>UPDATE ZD7VDE &#8211; St Helena<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<header><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2016-10-16T19:27:47+00:00\" >October 16, 2016<\/time><\/header>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"td_youtube_player\" width=\"500\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F4lJsOn7zWw?enablejsapi=1&#038;feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque&#038;vq=hd720\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Following info was provided by Bill, G0VDE to OPDX Bulletin:<\/p>\n<p><em>The opening of St. Helena airport still has continuing serious problems and it is still not possible to land sensible sized aircraft like 737 there. The planned flights (in May\/June and October by Atlantic Star) have been cancelled. The Comair flights from South Africa have likewise not started. All in all, it is a total mess and the UK government is being accused of building a \u00a3250M white elephant of an unusable airfield, all due to strong winds and wind shear!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have had to cancel, re-book and cancel my accommodation &#8211; if you read the ZD7 \u00ab\u00a0newsletters\u00a0\u00bb (the St. Helena Sentinel and the St Helena Independent) you will see it has been a very sorry story &#8211; hotels were encouraged to prepare extra rooms for the coming \u00ab\u00a0tourist boom\u00a0\u00bb and one has even reportedly gone out of business, because they spent a lot to prepare and have now got no means of recovering their losses!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So I am afraid I am not going this October either (having had to cancel my May\/June trip). I am keeping somewhat up-to-date about the events on my <a href=\"http:\/\/sthelenadx.com\/index.php\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sthelenadx.com\/index.php', 'website');\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> &#8211; but there is no planned date for the full airport opening so I don&rsquo;t have any certain future date. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You may know the boat (the RMS St. Helena) was due to retire at the end of July, but it has been kept in operation for about another year as it is obviously the only way of accessing the island. I am looking at the possibility of traveling by the boat, but the problem is two fold &#8211; the cost is at least double the planned cost of flying, and I would have to travel for two weeks and only be able to stay for one week&#8230; It is just possible I will take this option, but I am still waiting as I could theoretically fly at quite short notice, should proper flights begin. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We therefore have a sorry situation and a continuing delay &#8211; I will try to keep everyone posted. Maybe the only silver lining is that ZD7 will get rarer and any future visit would be popular!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><HR width=\"50%\"><br \/>\n<center><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><\/p>\n<h4>Version traduite en Fran\u00e7ais via Google Translate<\/h4>\n<p><\/span><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Le 16 Octobre, 2016<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apr\u00e8s info a \u00e9t\u00e9 fourni par le projet de loi, G0VDE au Bulletin OPDX:<\/p>\n<p><em>L&rsquo;ouverture de l&rsquo;a\u00e9roport de Sainte-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne a toujours continue de s\u00e9rieux probl\u00e8mes et il est toujours pas possible d&rsquo;atterrir des avions raisonnable taille comme 737 il. Les vols pr\u00e9vus (en Mai \/ Juin et Octobre par Atlantic Star) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 annul\u00e9es. Les vols Comair d&rsquo;Afrique du Sud ont \u00e9galement pas commenc\u00e9. Dans l&rsquo;ensemble, il est un d\u00e9sordre total et le gouvernement britannique est accus\u00e9 de construire un \u00e9l\u00e9phant blanc \u00a3 250M d&rsquo;un a\u00e9rodrome inutilisable, tout en raison de vents forts et le cisaillement du vent!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>J&rsquo;ai eu \u00e0 annuler, re-book et d&rsquo;annuler mon logement &#8211; si vous lisez le ZD7 &lsquo;des bulletins d&rsquo;information \u00bb(la Sainte-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Sentinel et St Helena Independent), vous verrez qu&rsquo;il a \u00e9t\u00e9 une histoire tr\u00e8s d\u00e9sol\u00e9 &#8211; h\u00f4tels ont \u00e9t\u00e9 encourag\u00e9s \u00e0 pr\u00e9parer chambres suppl\u00e9mentaires pour le \u00abboom touristique\u00bb \u00e0 venir et l&rsquo;un a m\u00eame aurait fait faillite, parce qu&rsquo;ils ont pass\u00e9 beaucoup de choses \u00e0 pr\u00e9parer et ont maintenant obtenu aucun moyen de r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer leurs pertes! \u00ab\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Je crains donc je ne vais pas en Octobre soit (ayant d\u00fb annuler mon voyage Mai \/ Juin). Je garde un peu mise \u00e0 jour sur les \u00e9v\u00e8nements sur mon <a href=\"http:\/\/sthelenadx.com\/index.php\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sthelenadx.com\/index.php', 'website');\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> site Internet<\/span><\/b><\/a> &#8211; mais il n&rsquo;y a pas de date pr\u00e9vue pour l&rsquo;ouverture compl\u00e8te de l&rsquo;a\u00e9roport, donc je n&rsquo;ai pas de date future. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vous savez peut-\u00eatre le bateau (le RMS St. Helena) devait prendre sa retraite \u00e0 la fin de Juillet, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 maintenu en fonctionnement pendant environ une autre ann\u00e9e comme il est \u00e9videmment le seul moyen d&rsquo;acc\u00e9der \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00eele. Je regarde la possibilit\u00e9 de voyager par le bateau, mais le probl\u00e8me est deux fois &#8211; le co\u00fbt est au moins le double du co\u00fbt pr\u00e9vu de voler, et je dois voyager pendant deux semaines et ne sera en mesure de rester pendant une semaine &#8230; Il est juste possible, je vais prendre cette option, mais je suis toujours en attente que je pourrais th\u00e9oriquement voler \u00e0 tr\u00e8s court pr\u00e9avis, devraient commencer des vols appropri\u00e9s. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nous avons donc une triste situation et un retard persistant &#8211; je vais essayer de garder tout le monde affich\u00e9. Peut-\u00eatre la seule doublure d&rsquo;argent est que ZD7 obtiendra plus rare et toute visite future serait populaire! \u00ab\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dx-world.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/we-696x394.jpg\" alt=\"DXNEWS\" width=\"104\" height=\"13\" \/>Source de l&rsquo;infos<\/center><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE ZD7VDE &#8211; St Helena October 16, 2016 Following info was provided by Bill, G0VDE to OPDX Bulletin: The opening of St. Helena airport still has continuing serious problems and it is still not possible to land sensible sized aircraft like 737 there. The planned flights (in May\/June and October by Atlantic Star) have been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/2016\/10\/17\/update-zd7vde-st-helena\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;UPDATE ZD7VDE &#8211; St Helena&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos-dx","category-trafic-radio","category-trafic-radioamatuer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.on4cn.be\/blog_radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}