Flying in Europe, Not So Different? VFR Water Crossing with my Family
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2023
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In this episode of Flight Chops, (a #Travel Adventure filmed in “the before times” of 2019), we’re flying the second half of our water crossing leg with friends from Hässlö Flygförening, just outside of Stockholm.
Hässlö Flygförening is located at Stockholm Västerås Airport (ICAO code ESOW) about an hour drive from Stockholm. With more than 600 members they are the largest flying club in northern Europe.
Being so close to Stockholm, while still keeping out of the more congested airspace around the big international airport, HFF is a great place to start your #GeneralAviation flying adventure in #Sweden.
They have access to many different airplanes to rent, together with a group of highly competent instructors ranging from airline captains to aerobatic instructors.
For pilots visiting Sweden, they can assist with anything from information, checkout flights on new types to the paperwork needed to act as PIC on a Swedish registered plane without an EASA license.
Learn more at their site: hasslo.org/in-english/
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Sweden is one of the most straightforward countries to fly VFR in Europe. A great choice to start I think, when coming from North America. Even though they call "Radio" instead of "Traffic" on frequency at uncontrolled aerodromes, it's just a tiny difference, compared to speaking French in France for example. 😅 Cool Video, you've had a great instructor onboard. Looking forward to the upcoming ones! 👍🏼
Love that question "wait Dad why do we need life jackets". Nothing like getting in a plane and considering what swimming out would be like. Haha! Been there a few times and it really does make you think.
I never knew about the ForeFlight Glide Advisor until now. I paused your video and watched the ForeFlight Glide Advisor video. I had my iPad sitting on my desk and ForeFlight open as we're planning a long trip next week; went into settings and turned on the glide advisor, then came back to this video. So it actually helped me out in real time! I was so engrossed in the overwater flight and descent that I totally forgot about the GIB (girls in back) until Evelyn chimed in. Cool airport. I get the same nostalgic feeling every time I see a Traumahawk.
As a swede, I really like this series! I plan to go to Gotland this summer and Bunge is definitely on the list :)
fly into Woolsey memorial 5d5 for pancake breakfast fly in and car show august 5. Coolest aviation event-very low key and beautiful.1,700 pancake capacity. Named after heroic aviator Clinton F Woolsey. He was originally planned to be the first to fly across the Atlantic. He died on a goodwill flight that crashed where he refused to jump out of the doomed plane and tried to save it with the one and only pilot/ crew member who had no parachute despite having one himself. The rest of the crew parachuted safely. His student, Charles Lindbergh, would achieve his dream for him. Woolseys father donated the family farm where they grew up in Northport Michigan to the township under the condition that it would always be used as an airfield in his sons memory.
As usual another cool video from a cool guy. Thanks Steve for sharing this with us. Nice cool family too.
Happy landings from Portugal .
An amazing series, I love seeing and experiencing GA from accross the globe, thanks Steve!
Thumbs up 👍 for sharing your family’s story.
I like the preplanned glide availability
Welcome to Sweden... You should visit ESSD (Borlänge) my home airport XD
The airspace around geneva is complex as you showed but check out the area around Zurich :-D. When you fly there, you get used to it. Like with everything.
Just one word: Paris. ;-)
Arrow is my favorite single. I have a bunch of hours in the II, III and IV models.
This was my first flight in one - it was great.
Red Blue Green - Runway is Clean, is what I like to check after GUMPS as a final reminder in complex (Mixture = Red, Prop = Blue, 3 Greens)
Loving these adventures in Sweden! Just think, when that hangar was built, some guy with a toothbrush moustache a bit farther south was making plans for world domination. A lot of history there.
Totally. It’s surreal to think about.
Hässlö/F1 is even older than that! They started operating out of there in 1931. My grandfather got his radioman certification there during the war, and my apartment is just a few hundred meters away! Feels bizarre to see my neighborhood in the video haha.
Hey Steve, thanks for showing us the differences and similarities that come with flying around the world. It's really cool to see and it's been fun following along.
My pleasure!
Thanks 👍👍
Very nice as usual Steve.
Glad you enjoyed it Alex!
Good, also check your speed before selecting gear down. 🤔
T-tail is the least favorite model I’ve flown. Soft landings are damn near impossible.
Does it have any major ifr differences or only vfr
How do I contact the "Swedish flying community" you mentioned?
I think I put all the relevant info and links in the description- I’m currently walking the dog while skimming these comments, which is why I’m not able to check and paste the link here myself right now.
Am I right in understanding that this was three years ago?
More like 4 actually.
@@FlightChops ok I knew you were way past that with your training, now I see.
No instrument rating?
Daughter has nice facial profile.
No life raft?
Should be somewhere in the back.
TBH I think lifesaving equipment is there for psychological rather than practical reasons. For a recent flight to Corsica I considered taking a raft (which according to official regulations is up to the pilot's judgement...), but taking into account its size and weight, the fact that it's very expensive to own and nearl impossible to rent (given that I would need it once a year or so, and have to replace it after a few years), plus the fact that it would only be useful after a successful ditching (a maneuver you can't train for, "taught" to you by instructors who have second-hand knowledge of it at best), hoping to get everyone AND this bulky thing out of the aircraft in time... I consider myself a prudent pilot but deliberately opted to fly without it.
This being said, I do wear a lifejacket when flying over water, of the kind shown in the video; many flying clubs I've visited are content with airline-style ones (in sealed bags that are opened only once trouble materializes) which I consider a joke.
30mins over water..... I'm done