Club Arnage

I have been in contact with jet systems who operate the heli trips around the circuit during the race and we can be guaranteed a one hour block booking provided we get 30 people (the price has gone up to 80 euros each but is well worth it!). the best time would be on the sat between 6 and 7 as all the cars are still on the track!!

I tried to get a group discount but due to fuel prices and demand for the flights the offer of a block booking was the best I could get..

If we get enough support I will co ordinate it if needs be..

any thoughts??

I'm up for it.  There are going to be at least 5 in our party, I'll see if any of the others are interested.

Thats the spirit!!

keep em coming!!

I am a bit puzzeled what we get out of a block booking without a discount? Especially when we are guaranteing that there will be people on the heli!

I will think about it. Only thing is 80E is a lot of beer!

Difficult question. I'd really like to go after what I heared from others and the pictures I've seen this year. But it's a lot of money to already commit to for me. I'm gonna think it over.

I know its a lot of money.. but it really is worth it!! ;D

If we can get the 30 needed I will try nearer the time to maybe work on them for a bit of a discount.. but as he said he fills out all the slots over the weekend anyway by the end april :o

It's 2 euros more than last year
http://www.clubarnage.com/forum/index.php?topic=5720.0
and they were charging 100 euros during the classic.

2 euros inflation.. £1.35.. not too bad really ;)

Another reason that it 's not that bad with no discount as it will be stinking hot and the last thing you want to be doing is standing around in the open waiting.  So that means if we've paid up front there is no queuing at the paying window, one short queue for French speakers one long queue for non French speakers, that has saved about twenty to thirty minutes, as this is a popular trip.  Next security, so you don’t want to be carrying too much as this will hold you up.  You’ll get waived through to the front of security as well.  Next the queue for the flight, there were about five or six “tents” departure points really and you get directed to a specific tent, it can be a forty or sixty minute wait here, limited seating, no refreshments.  You’ll go to a dedicated tent, limited waiting here as well, probably be a new chopper for the VIP’s, last year when we flew there were people from Audi and Corvette in the VIP area.
In effect you get 1½ laps of the circuit, one full lap and then the top half of the circuit again, fly over all the campsites etc and get a great view of the event.  Personally I think it is a bargain ;D

The Jet Jockeys will tell you: 20,000 pieces going in opposite directions is not really flying ;D
 The view will be awsome however :P
A prime time slot would be a major advantage.
 Canada Phil

Fagey, my numbers are now up to 7 and all would like to come.

and I have at least 3/4.. but we need more! 

if not i will just sort for the select few.. that flight of the valkarys music is in my head again.. charlie dont surf and all that ;)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Apocalype_Now_Huey.jpg)

I'm interested in the heli flight. Been promising myself to do it for the last three years. But things like beer and Tropicoma always seem to get in the way, so maybe booking it in adavnce would be a good way to force me to actually do it (a few of the Team JPC and DfH guys did it last year and loved it, got some great photos too!!)

I'd query their comment about seeling all the available slots though, certaonly by the end of April, as the guys that did it in 2006 just walked up on Sunday morning and paid their money, no booking necessary and didn't have to wait very long either.

I'd love to but sadly without a significant discount it's out of my price range. 

well I want to go again.. and so does the better half.. so I will try to get in between 6-7pm on the sat so there are still cars on the track! Termie?

Done.  The others are already asking me when and how they should pay!  As an aside, I did a heli trip when I went to Niagra and got some spectacular shots.  A really different perspective.  Also keeps up our "do one different thing every year" theme. :)

Have promised myself to do this for some years now, so count me in.
I'll ask the others in our party so count on 3 or 4 more.

I'd quite like to do this too, promised myself last year that I'd do it and then didn't get round to it.

My tickets have arrived, Fagey. :)

fantastic!! you wont be dissapointed ;)

Fagey, hope you had a good birthday.  The weather certainly held up here (a couple of showers and about 20 minutes of storms and now we're back to the drought again!) so I assume the heli trip was good?

I have 2 more people joining us for LM.  I haven't actually metioned the heli' trip to them but if they're interested, can they still get tickets and get in with our bunch?

Blimey, I'm going to need t-shirts for our lot at this rate...

yup...

the trip was fantastic.. the weather was 27 degrees!

no worries for the trip at le mans..just contact valerie..

eat too much and drunk too much  ;D

off to bed for a week to recover methinks!!

Really interested in this, is it too late to be counted in for two?

hi ian..

contact valerie at jet systems www.jetsystems.fr and tell her you are with CA (we have a set time from 6-7 pm on the sat)

Andy

Pics here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97986095@N00/sets/72157600495159313/

Ahh memories ;D deffo on the return of the jersey crew next year!!

house went through no probs so now i am a maison owner en france ;D ;D ;D

Excellent pics Termie, thanks for sharing! 8)

One advantage of being female is that I was automatically shoved in the front seat next to the pilot! :)