Border Crossing at the Airfield with a Bus

A few weeks back I was at the airfield again. Last night I had a strange dream about it.

A few months back a hot-air balloon landed on the airfield without a warning and without radio which lead to a pretty dangerous situation as one of our aircrafts was on its way to the final.

The dream was somehow similar.

I was looking down the runway as I saw a large bus driving down. The bus stopped at the end of the runway und turned sideways so it would block it.

Obviously our duty lead was very angry. We ran to the bus already shouting at it as a bunch of people in wedding clothing ran out of it and away.

It turned out the bus was rented by the wedding pair to make a trip after the wedding. The bride was the slowest one of the running people for obvious reasons and was quickly caught by us.

We brought her near the tower to talk to her why they were doing such a stupid action.

She didn’t answer us. Multiple calls from us to tell her name were denied by her: “I don’t know my name.”. She was definitely lying.

Sidenote: The airfield I’m normally at is also a border crossing point, even though it is far away from the border. With the help of the local police station, it is possible to fly outside of the EU without lading in Graz to enter the EU again.

As the duty leader got angrier he looked at me: “Call the customs officers and tell them we’ve got illegal border crossings here. So they can to the identity verification.”

The dream ended and I woke up.