Flying a German WWII Trainer in Sweden!

i'm flying something pretty cool and it's a long way from home hello we are boarding a plane but it's small because it's only for two hours but we're going to what's called stockholm the largest flying club in the nordic region i think i pronounced it right one more time this was from the before times in 2019 and it's about time to start sharing [Music] after nearly two years of dealing with all the obvious challenges reliving this footage from the start of what was meant to be our international year of flight chops family adventures has been bittersweet okay so i've got the girls in tow with me for a flight chops mission we're heading to sweden this is pretty exciting this is the first of the international flight chops year so obviously a lot of our plans ended up being canceled for the rest of the year but we did get a few things done and this trip in sweden had a lot of awesome general aviation adventures to share so i'm in sweden here and i just got to meet an rv-14 builder who's just got about 10 hours on his airplane beyond tagging along for a lot of the flying that we got to do jill and evelyn definitely enjoyed the local culture so we are at the climate strike in europe sweden [Music] we're here thanks to the gracious invitation of some passionate members of the flying community who are hosting us robert who you'll meet later and henrik who handled a lot of the logistics hey my name is henrikh burussetter i'm the chairman of his left league training and been so for three years now trying to make people fly higher longer and more in sweden in general flying clubs like this here are not common like they are in north america we're about 700 members which 350 400 is flying and we have 16 single aircrafts and two twin and one two helicopters for renting for the members in general we don't own any one of these we are renting them from private owners or small associations but we're taking care of everything future episodes will dive deeper into what it's like to fly with this club but for now henrik set me up with a pretty special treat for day one so i'm in the countryside in sweden and this is my first flying mission it's a 1941 clem 35 it's basically the german tiger moth an early trainer really looking forward to seeing how this thing flies my name is patrick flying here in sweden commercial pilot but i find this more interesting to fly actually built slightly before the second world war were constructed like as a trainer for the german air force it came to sweden i believe slightly after the the second world war to work as a trainer aircraft in the swedish air force and the paint team it has now is how it looked during the when it flew in the swedish air force [Music] you're gonna do most of the flying and i guess you're gonna feel the nice harmony the nice flying characteristics of the aircraft very light in the rudder forces and so on so it flies beautifully stick pedals and then you have your asp there and here is the magnetos then we have it's called a primer pump in the back a little extra fuel tank with some fuel i gave it some pushes priming the engine and now i put the throttle like a centimeter up magnetos is off so now i'm going to take eight blades eight see if it's dropping any fuel i will give it some more priming with the primer pump now we switch the mags to on should be around there and now when the engine starts it shouldn't start to roll but if it does you can you can just kill the engine you can start it with a hang with the exactly like a hand crank like that there is no starter no battery anything in the aircraft so you need to hand crack it yeah but we always hand crank it okay contact hello steve i got you you got me yeah i hear you all right laughing there you know you have no in the back here you have no gauges for oil temp or oil pressure or anything so you just how do you know your engine's okay you don't all right you listen to it i suppose you have one fuel tank in the in the center in the fuselage ahead of you okay which is the the one you use for take off and landing because it is fed with gravity and then we have one the tank the main tank in the in the right wing and there you have a fuel pump that's why you shouldn't take off on the on the main tank in the ring if the pump fails then you will stop but on this center tank in the in the fuselage right you get fueled by gravity all the time okay let's see if we can taxi up here to the beginning of the runway then you can taxi your controls i got it but you have no brakes so i can i'm gonna help you help you with some brakes alright that's a good power there yeah this is good all right you might have to have me some break there you go there you go okay and i'll go straight the platform to the right here we can text up and turn around up there all right this engine rotating the standard direction or the other direction this is a standard direction so when adding power you need the rights rather right but we'll want to make a left turn to make this turn around then that's good idea and if you're wondering how you could get to do this sort of thing they've got a really elegant system set up at this flying club to help international pilots we have a service called hff all-inclusive where we help people from foreign countries to get their license converted and we also have them to check out and be able to rent the car aircrafts we got so you can get over here and get checked out and take the aircraft for a weekend or for a couple of days and educate sweden and see what sweden looks like from different parts get ready to follow the bouncing camera mounting in this mostly fabric cockpit was a challenge but we made do as best we could this camera up here is not sticking very good so if i say uh take control i'll just uh you know try to deal with it if it falls all right yeah are you ready i'm ready so a little bit and then we lift the tail somewhere around here on the little there it is like right we have some crosswind from the right yep i corrected that and now we are born you want to take it i got it yeah you're gonna need some right rubber [Music] driving out with around 130 kilometers an hour which is perfect there you go okay yes let's make a right to climbing turn and as you may feel it's very sensitive it's with the light in the controls very light yeah not only is the clem 35 light in the control inputs but light in actual weight as well the interesting thing is they after the first world war the germans got this i don't know what's called in english but like the restriction how big engines they could have so it only has 105 horsepower which is fairly little and due to that they had to build an airplane around the engine that flies well with low drag to the aerodynamics of this airplane you can compare it in the the tiger mod the same era but this one i've been flying tiger most like 20-25 hours and this one flies much better so the aerodynamics from the german aircraft is better and that's just one of the many unique aspects of this airplane you don't have a mixture in this airplane so instead as a normal you regulate the the amount of fuel going into the engine in this one you regulate the amount of air instead so you can regulate the mixture by by the air there is the the strange mixture yeah fresh air it says but we sell them use it we fly low and low and slow so it goes at like full reach all the time and it's totally aromatic but we don't fly that much aromatic with it anymore it's an old old lady we can continue the right turn at under 90 degrees so we have the more or less slightly west direction [Music] beautiful yeah there we are about 150 meters which is 500 feet and i think we can climb to another up to 200 meters or something all right hold the heading right there that's a good heading we got some radio towers over there but uh no other obstacles to worry about this looks good okay so we are up at the good altitude around 6 700 feet you can lower the nose a little bit and then we reduce the power to cruise which is well yeah you're mostly going on how it sounds and somewhere around somewhere around here is a good okay good cruise power yeah and this feel speed will increase to around 150 106 160 kilometers an hour and the trim is this black knob on my left that's correct yeah it's a feather trim a spring okay so there are no dream brothers it so you trim the forces out with a spring okay you're gonna need a little bit more right rubber to fly there we go balls coming into the middle so let's do some wing rocks or some gentle turns and have a little feel for the aircraft yeah does not keep the nose straight there you go and i see we are descending a little bit so if you could raise the nose just a couple of degrees i'll just do like an s turn now yeah it's kilometers an hour and meters we cruise around 150 160 kilometers an hour is like 80 knots 75 knots landing speed is around 50 knots so finally maybe 110 kilometers an hour is it similar to one of the other planes that have been flying this year uh it feels a lot like a chipmunk yeah the first airplane that we fly is yellowbird pilots in the museum fleet back home is the chipmunk it's an awesome introductory warbird trainer and it flies very similarly to the clam 35 how is that that thing coordinated i can't really yeah that's coordinated the ball is the center okay beautiful right uh do a 180 head back yeah that's good we can take a left turn you can also climb a little bit if you like we can add some power and as you may feel i don't know have you been flying in trying about anything i have not flown yet no when you fire pagan mob you get the wind in the back this airplane as you may feel it's not that windy in the cockpit here oh beautiful yeah no wind in the cockpit even though you sit in an open cockpit it's pretty nice and calm it's awesome yeah clearly patrick considers the tiger moth to be a really good basis of comparison for warbird flying and i look forward to sharing the process of learning to fly the one that we're restoring at the museum currently i think this must have been a perfect trainer to learn people how to fly because they need to use the correct input surrounding but it's still light and controls easy to fly uh reduce power a little bit yeah can you show me some of those i just want to see how much better you're gonna use my controls yeah you got it i'm gonna aim amongst the the water here yeah something like this yeah that's the last one i was doing okay yeah your controls okay i got it now we are back at the airfield actually you see to the right there let's do a little by by the guys there cool so we can get some nice shots nice day for flying our other main host here was robert and i can't thank him enough for how much time he spent with us so right now we are at mebora plaza in stockholm and i think this is this is the friday for future climate streak i obviously didn't have a crew for this trip so i appreciated that he picked up my main camera and got me a lot of b-roll for things like this clem flight you see them on the runway there i do see them yeah so i'm gonna pass them on the left to the right and then we do a left climbing turn okay maybe they can have some nice footage are you okay budgeting the horses the horses like this okay let's see if we can do a little fly by along the runway as well okay do you want to buy more yeah i'll take control for that yo controls i got it okay the instrument i'm looking at is kilometers per hour so the number is what matters you're saying go for 110 final yeah okay this is good you can pass along the wrong way okay let me be the power where it is yeah a little less actually so we don't get too high speed i can help you a little bit with the trouble nice all right break break run yeah and we can go straight ahead actually from this point okay and then do a rough pattern or yeah i think uh are we satisfied shall we go back for landing or yeah yeah microphones you got it we do have pass from the other side as well and then a break right for a little left hand circuit for landing okay [Music] so after this pass we break to the right and then do a left-hand circuit okay [Music] [Music] uh speaking of the landing those soldiers when you sit in the in the back you don't see that much uh forward so i always do some side slips yeah to point the nose away so i can see where i'm going take the fly around those houses down here [Music] now we have some tailwind on the base leg which means you need to turn around to get into the room and then i fly a little bit over i don't know not a straight final since we have the trees to the right of us yeah they're coming a little bit here from the side side slipping as you see and you have a good view on the runway yeah speed should be coming down towards 110 take 120 this is a bit windy today there we go still side slipping somewhere over the runway here exit slip look to the sides and the three-point lap very nice keep track with the rudders [Music] awesome yeah we are down again beautiful [Music] so before i quit the engine now or stop canyon i have [Music] of time with the fuel off eh yeah it does this is why people get in that trap where they can actually take off the fuel off you know if they don't do the run-up and they just forget correct so now the engine is not ready to be stopped which we do with the magnitude there we go some history flying yeah that was beautiful flies real nice like feels like a chipmunk a little bit lighter yeah i like the chipmunk without the roof bunch more episodes will be coming from this sweden trip i'm gonna be mixing and matching those with some of the current stuff that i've shot recently and until next time keep your flake chop sharp so give me i'm gonna roll on that read that to me one more time it's maximum speed for flying in bad visibility with the risk of obstacles so in other words there's something in your way you'll be able to dodge it speed for dodging that's ifr ifr from back in the day

Channel: FlightChops

Views: 44,470

Keywords: general aviation, warbird, sweden, hässlö flygförening, hässlö, flygförening, klemm 35, tail wheel, flying lesson, tail wheel lesson, stick and rudder, flight training, flying, landing, aviation, atc, air traffic control, flight vlog, pilot career, pilot life, flight chops, flightchops, foreflight

Id: HO08maN31c4

Length: 18min 4sec (1084 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 08 2021