Pilatus PC12 | Megève – LFHM training course & rating
Rating at Megève altiport is available when the runway is not snow-covered, from April to November. Indeed, the runway is not cleared of snow during the winter, so landing in Pilatus PC12 is not possible!
This training is delivered in accordance with the latest regulatory requirements, by a team of Pilatus PC12 qualified instructors and examiners.
Meeting at our main base in CHAMBERY – LFLB for the theoretical program.
Flights between CHAMBERY and MEGEVE altiport (18 minutes) allow familiarization with mountain navigation but also to have a base accessible in all weather conditions without special access conditions.
Training duration: 2 days.
Training program
- Theoretical training: 2h30
- Regulations applicable to Megève altiport
- Aerology
- Take-off and landing performance: study of the sloping runway and performance chart applicable to take-off.
- Mountain flying techniques
- Mountain navigation
- Application of Threat & Error Management to mountain flying, and the particularities of SPO operations.
- Flight training: 3h00
- Navigation
- Recognition and decision-making
- Atterrissages à l’altiport de Megève en Pilatus PC12
Interested in another Pilatus PC12 qualification?
We also offer access training to Courchevel airport – LFLJ and La Môle airport – LFTZ!
History of Megève altiport (from Wikipedia)
It was under the impetus of Michel Ziegler, the boss of the Air Alpes company who initiated the construction of several altiports in the 1960s in the Alps (Courchevel, Alpe D’huez, etc.) and of Megève native Jacques Henri Bujard, director of the Edmond de Rothschild group, that the idea of creating an altiport in Megève was launched.
Megève sees this as an opportunity to attract a wealthy clientele.
For his part, Edmond de Rothschild, whose family has been based in Megève since the 1910s, gave his agreement to make available the land at Cote 2000 that the boss of Air Alpes had indicated to him could be suitable for the creation of an altiport2.
This altiport was inaugurated on December 20, 1964.
A Paris – Megève commercial line was set up until 1977 with Air Alpes, as were connections to Geneva, Lyon-Bron, or other resorts equipped with an altiport such as Courchevel, La Plagne, Alpe d’Huez, or simply to be “dropped off” on a glacier.
Air Dauphiné will set up the connection to Grenoble.
The altiport is then taken over by the municipality of Megève.
Subsequently, the runway will be groomed instead of being cleared of snow and thus restricted to aircraft equipped with skis.
In 1968, the creation of the aeroclub propelled a new activity.
For the 10th anniversary of Air Alpes in 1971, the Pilatus PC-6 registered F-BKQY took the name: Méribel.
In August 2016, the DGAC (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) lifted the ban on commercial flights by authorizing Alpine Airlines Vulcanair P-68s to use the small runway at Megève.