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You made a damn good job building the best (European) fighter jet around! Had the pleasure to watch those take-off, fly over and land rather close to the runway! That sound!!

Yep, the sound and agility of that little fighter's amazing. Had a blast at JG2 'Richthofen' (now JG71) in 2013.




Your build is doing it justice in every way, Fermis!

Just another one with special markings:

Thanks again all!

I do like having this model on the shelf!

Thomas_M wrote:You made a damn good job building the best (European) fighter jet around! Had the pleasure to watch those take-off, fly over and land rather close to the runway! That sound!!

When we were in Germany, a couple years back, I was hoping to see some military stuff flying around. No such luck, aside from a single Blackhawk (IIRC), near an Army base. One other chopper was seen...looked like it could have been a news chopper or maybe medical...and only one small plane (Cessna). I was a bit surprised by the lack of flying things (other than air liners). Around here, it's weird when there isn't a small plane flying around overhead.

Germany's much more populous than the states and it is harder for private pilotes to get a flight approval for many areas.
Things were a bit different until the 90's, when the Luftwaffe still had its full cold war-strength. Phantoms and Hueys were a common sight back then.

Does every flight need an approval?
One can't just hop in and go somewhere, or just buzz around for awhile?

The air space is much restricted. You easily can start and land on small airfields and fly over the countryside like you want to, as long as your altitude is high enough. But for city areas and national parks you need a permission or you have to declare your flyover via radio.

Not too different than here then.

Was just looking at a sectional chart for part of Germany...a lot of it is familiar to our charts. The big difference seems to be how airspace is defined.