Taxiing for Spitfire flight at Boultbee Flight Academy at Goodwood Aerodrome, England.
Jerry's Spitfire Flight from Goodwood with Boultbee Flight Academy
Fulfilling a dream, flying in a Spitfire from Goodwood. What an experience - with the added bonus of taking off and flying alongside another Spitfire ! Many thanks to all at Boultbee, and all the greater respect to the brave young guys who flew these in the Battle of Britain....
Peter Knight Spitfire Flight 2014 (Boultbee Flight Academy)
My dad's biggest ambition in life was to fly in a spitfire, he done this last year with Boultbee Flight Academy. Absolutely loved the experiance, and would definitely do it again if he got the chance, infact I think he is on the waiting list for his second flight. The clip has been shortened to 19mins as it was nearly an hour long.
Spitfire, Boultbee, Goodwood, aerobatic training and some errors, July 2014
Andrew Leech flying Spitfire T9 G-ILDA at Goodwood Airfield (Boultbee F.A.), July 2014.
Instructor: Squadron leader Willy Hackett
The following videos and stills document the fantastic time I had on the Boultbee Flying Academy course at Goodwood Airfield in July 2014.
Please feel free to copy to other interested parties if you enjoyed them.
Harvard aerobatics
Tiger Moth aerobatics
Boultbee Spitfire Course Stills
Spitfire training (including my own errors) and aerobatics
Tiger Moth Touch 'n Goes at Duxford
The Boultbee Spitfire Course
My interest in aerobatics started several years ago under the tutelage of Spyros Papadakis (Hellenic Air Force) and Squadron Leader Ilias Boznos, where we put various Cessnas through all the delightful moves they could legally manage.
Then, in early 2014, I was invited to take part in a training course for the Spitfire, Harvard and Tiger Moth in the UK. This was arranged by Boultbee Flying Academy (they also work with the RAF and Heritage Aircraft) at the Goodwood airfield, near Chichester (a former WW2 base), who are anxious to pass on the skills of the past to some of today's pilots. In some ways you could say the course was a compressed and shortened version of that undergone by many WW2 Spitfire pilots.
The course was restricted to pilots with a current licence and medical with adequate flying experience. My slot took place in early July and I elected to focus on the aerobatic component, where all the flight training was done on a practical hands-on basis of 'I show you, then you do it.'
I had a fantastic time that I will probably never be able to repeat in my life. I also more clearly understood the flight problems faced by all those young pilots in the 1940s, when they had to both control the plane and fight.
While the Tiger Moth was fun, and surprisingly aerobatic, the Spitfire was a difficult plane to fly, much harder than the Harvard (which was its training predecessor). You had to manage several levers in quick succession (throttle, manifold, rpm,boost, pitch etc), so it must have been awful if you were also fighting! But it was really sweet in aerobatics. The Harvard, though, was also very responsive and great in aerobatics, and relatively easy to fly and land, which surprised me.
The difference in power was most obvious in a climb, where the Spitfire took about 8 seconds from take-off to reach 2000 ft. and the aerobatics were done at 300 mph (compared with 130mph for the Moth and 200mph for the Harvard). It was like driving a Maserati after using a Mini, and loops at 300mph verged on approaching fleeting, mild blackout.
At this point I must thank my eminent (just google them!) and highly qualified aerobatic instructors: Eskil Amdal (Norwegian F16 test pilot), Sam Whatmough (BA Training Manager for the Dreamliner & Air Display Pilot) and Squadron Leader 'Willy' Hackett (RAF Gnat Display team & Test Pilot) for the time and patience they spent training me. Thanks, too, go to Andy Annable (Cam-ARA) for his quality photography, Tim Granshaw (for flight co-ordination), Matt Jones (for foresight and planning) and all the others at Boultbee Flying Academy who made my 'euphoric adventure of a lifetime' possible.
Some touch and goes in a Tiger Moth were later done at Duxford.
I hope you enjoy these videos as much as I did making them. It was a fabulous experience
Andrew Leech
(aleech@ath.forthnet.gr)
NB1. Those who would like to read further about the Boultbee Course should immerse themselves in Paul Jansen's (of Merawan.com) amazing series of articles; all written from the student's point of view and containing a plethora of information. Paul is a wonderfully gifted writer, journalist and pilot who graphically brings it all to life, as if you were there. Follow this link for a thrill of prose:
Found it! a new training school for Spitfire pilots | Merawan: for pilots in Asia by pilots in Asia
Further recommended viewing: Spitfire Ace 1-4 (available on YouTube) showing training in Carolyn Grace's two-seater Spitfire.
NB2. If you are interested in further, often humorous, articles by Andrew Leech regarding the English Language Teaching scene in Greece, follow this link:
or for more general subjects, but still containing humour:
which is for Hellenic Communication Services, a Greek-American website in the USA.
Harvard T6, Boultbee,Goodwood, aerobatics, July 2014
Andrew Leech flying the Harvard T6 at Boultbee F.A, Goodwood Airfield, England, in the summer of 2014. Instructor: Sam Whatmough (LOOK BELOW)
The following videos and stills document the fantastic time I had on the Boultbee Flying Academy course at Goodwood Airfield in July 2014.
Please feel free to copy to other interested parties if you enjoyed them.
Harvard aerobatics
Tiger Moth aerobatics
Boultbee Spitfire Course Stills
Spitfire training (including my own errors) and aerobatics
Tiger Moth Touch 'n Goes at Duxford
The Boultbee Spitfire Course
My interest in aerobatics started several years ago under the tutelage of Spyros Papadakis (Hellenic Air Force) and Squadron Leader Ilias Boznos, where we put various Cessnas through all the delightful moves they could legally manage.
Then, in early 2014, I was invited to take part in a training course for the Spitfire, Harvard and Tiger Moth in the UK. This was arranged by Boultbee Flying Academy (they also work with the RAF and Heritage Aircraft) at the Goodwood airfield, near Chichester (a former WW2 base), who are anxious to pass on the skills of the past to some of today's pilots. In some ways you could say the course was a compressed and shortened version of that undergone by many WW2 Spitfire pilots.
The course was restricted to pilots with a current licence and medical with adequate flying experience. My slot took place in early July and I elected to focus on the aerobatic component, where all the flight training was done on a practical hands-on basis of 'I show you, then you do it.'
I had a fantastic time that I will probably never be able to repeat in my life. I also more clearly understood the flight problems faced by all those young pilots in the 1940s, when they had to both control the plane and fight.
While the Tiger Moth was fun, and surprisingly aerobatic, the Spitfire was a difficult plane to fly, much harder than the Harvard (which was its training predecessor). You had to manage several levers in quick succession (throttle, manifold, rpm,boost, pitch etc), so it must have been awful if you were also fighting! But it was really sweet in aerobatics. The Harvard, though, was also very responsive and great in aerobatics, and relatively easy to fly and land, which surprised me.
The difference in power was most obvious in a climb, where the Spitfire took about 8 seconds from take-off to reach 2000 ft. and the aerobatics were done at 300 mph (compared with 130mph for the Moth and 200mph for the Harvard). It was like driving a Maserati after using a Mini, and loops at 300mph verged on approaching fleeting, mild blackout.
At this point I must thank my eminent (just google them!) and highly qualified aerobatic instructors: Eskil Amdal (Norwegian F16 test pilot), Sam Whatmough (BA Training Manager for the Dreamliner & Air Display Pilot) and Squadron Leader 'Willy' Hackett (RAF Gnat Display team & Test Pilot) for the time and patience they spent training me. Thanks, too, go to Andy Annable (Cam-ARA) for his quality photography, Tim Granshaw (for flight co-ordination), Matt Jones (for foresight and planning) and all the others at Boultbee Flying Academy who made my 'euphoric adventure of a lifetime' possible.
Some touch and goes in a Tiger Moth were later done at Duxford.
I hope you enjoy these videos as much as I did making them. It was a fabulous experience
Andrew Leech
(aleech@ath.forthnet.gr)
NB1. Those who would like to read further about the Boultbee Course should immerse themselves in Paul Jansen's (of Merawan.com) amazing series of articles; all written from the student's point of view and containing a plethora of information. Paul is a wonderfully gifted writer, journalist and pilot who graphically brings it all to life, as if you were there. Follow this link for a thrill of prose:
Found it! a new training school for Spitfire pilots | Merawan: for pilots in Asia by pilots in Asia
Further recommended viewing: Spitfire Ace 1-4 (available on YouTube) showing training in Carolyn Grace's two-seater Spitfire.
NB2. If you are interested in further, often humorous, articles by Andrew Leech regarding the English Language Teaching scene in Greece, follow this link:
or for more general subjects, but still containing humour:
which is for Hellenic Communication Services, a Greek-American website in the USA. .
Boultbee Spitfire Course slideshow July 2014
Andrew Leech's slideshow from pictures taken during training (July 2014) on the Spitfire, Tiger Moth, and Harvard. Actual footage of the flying sessions also available on YouTube.(see below)
The following videos and stills document the fantastic time I had on the Boultbee Flying Academy course at Goodwood Airfield in July 2014.
Please feel free to copy to other interested parties if you enjoyed them.
Harvard aerobatics
Tiger Moth aerobatics
Boultbee Spitfire Course Stills
Spitfire training (including my own errors) and aerobatics
Tiger Moth Touch 'n Goes at Duxford
The Boultbee Spitfire Course
My interest in aerobatics started several years ago under the tutelage of Spyros Papadakis (Hellenic Air Force) and Squadron Leader Ilias Boznos, where we put various Cessnas through all the delightful moves they could legally manage.
Then, in early 2014, I was invited to take part in a training course for the Spitfire, Harvard and Tiger Moth in the UK. This was arranged by Boultbee Flying Academy (they also work with the RAF and Heritage Aircraft) at the Goodwood airfield, near Chichester (a former WW2 base), who are anxious to pass on the skills of the past to some of today's pilots. In some ways you could say the course was a compressed and shortened version of that undergone by many WW2 Spitfire pilots.
The course was restricted to pilots with a current licence and medical with adequate flying experience. My slot took place in early July and I elected to focus on the aerobatic component, where all the flight training was done on a practical hands-on basis of 'I show you, then you do it.'
I had a fantastic time that I will probably never be able to repeat in my life. I also more clearly understood the flight problems faced by all those young pilots in the 1940s, when they had to both control the plane and fight.
While the Tiger Moth was fun, and surprisingly aerobatic, the Spitfire was a difficult plane to fly, much harder than the Harvard (which was its training predecessor). You had to manage several levers in quick succession (throttle, manifold, rpm,boost, pitch etc), so it must have been awful if you were also fighting! But it was really sweet in aerobatics. The Harvard, though, was also very responsive and great in aerobatics, and relatively easy to fly and land, which surprised me.
The difference in power was most obvious in a climb, where the Spitfire took about 8 seconds from take-off to reach 2000 ft. and the aerobatics were done at 300 mph (compared with 130mph for the Moth and 200mph for the Harvard). It was like driving a Maserati after using a Mini, and loops at 300mph verged on approaching fleeting, mild blackout.
At this point I must thank my eminent (just google them!) and highly qualified aerobatic instructors: Eskil Amdal (Norwegian F16 test pilot), Sam Whatmough (BA Training Manager for the Dreamliner & Air Display Pilot) and Squadron Leader 'Willy' Hackett (RAF Gnat Display team & Test Pilot) for the time and patience they spent training me. Thanks, too, go to Andy Annable (Cam-ARA) for his quality photography, Tim Granshaw (for flight co-ordination), Matt Jones (for foresight and planning) and all the others at Boultbee Flying Academy who made my 'euphoric adventure of a lifetime' possible.
Some touch and goes in a Tiger Moth were later done at Duxford.
I hope you enjoy these videos as much as I did making them. It was a fabulous experience
Andrew Leech
(aleech@ath.forthnet.gr)
NB1. Those who would like to read further about the Boultbee Course should immerse themselves in Paul Jansen's (of Merawan.com) amazing series of articles; all written from the student's point of view and containing a plethora of information. Paul is a wonderfully gifted writer, journalist and pilot who graphically brings it all to life, as if you were there. Follow this link for a thrill of prose:
Found it! a new training school for Spitfire pilots | Merawan: for pilots in Asia by pilots in Asia
Further recommended viewing: Spitfire Ace 1-4 (available on YouTube) showing training in Carolyn Grace's two-seater Spitfire.
NB2. If you are interested in further, often humorous, articles by Andrew Leech regarding the English Language Teaching scene in Greece, follow this link:
or for more general subjects, but still containing humour:
which is for Hellenic Communication Services, a Greek-American website in the USA.
C-152: Fairoaks to Goodwood with Chris HD
On Monday 4th August myself and a friend (Chris) flew down to Chichester Goodwood.
Apologies for some of the language in this video
Alex James learns to fly a Spitfire
Telegraph columnist and Blur bassist Alex James fulfills a lifelong dream - flying a Spitfire.
Alex was given the chance to join the Boultbee Academy, a Goodwood- based flying school that compresses as much as possible of what actual trainee spitfire pilots learned, into a two-day course.
Teaching begins, just as it did in the Thirties and Forties with a Tiger Moth, progressing to a more powerful Harvard before moving on to the Spitfire on day two.
Probably all men dream of being a pilot at some time or another and all pilots want to fly a Spitfire, said Alex. And it is one of those rare things that is even better than it sounds on paper. Or you could possibly imagine it would be.
Read Alex's emotional account of his flight in The Sunday Telegraph's Life section and online at
Watch more:
Spitfire takes to the skies again after 71 years:
Pilot's eye view from a Lancaster bomber:
Alexei Sayle test drives the Ferrari 458 at Goodwood:
spitfire at March cricket match goodwood revival 08 09 16
spitfire at March cricket match goodwood revival 08 09 16
Tiger Moth, Boultbee, Goodwood, Aerobatics July 2014
Andrew Leech flying the Tiger Moth at Boultbee F.A., Goodwood Airfield, summer 2014.
Instructor: Eskil Amdal (LOOK BELOW)
The following videos and stills document the fantastic time I had on the Boultbee Flying Academy course at Goodwood Airfield in July 2014.
Please feel free to copy to other interested parties if you enjoyed them.
Harvard aerobatics
Tiger Moth aerobatics
Boultbee Spitfire Course Stills
Spitfire training (including my own errors) and aerobatics
Tiger Moth Touch 'n Goes at Duxford
The Boultbee Spitfire Course
My interest in aerobatics started several years ago under the tutelage of Spyros Papadakis (Hellenic Air Force) and Squadron Leader Ilias Boznos, where we put various Cessnas through all the delightful moves they could legally manage.
Then, in early 2014, I was invited to take part in a training course for the Spitfire, Harvard and Tiger Moth in the UK. This was arranged by Boultbee Flying Academy (they also work with the RAF and Heritage Aircraft) at the Goodwood airfield, near Chichester (a former WW2 base), who are anxious to pass on the skills of the past to some of today's pilots. In some ways you could say the course was a compressed and shortened version of that undergone by many WW2 Spitfire pilots.
The course was restricted to pilots with a current licence and medical with adequate flying experience. My slot took place in early July and I elected to focus on the aerobatic component, where all the flight training was done on a practical hands-on basis of 'I show you, then you do it.'
I had a fantastic time that I will probably never be able to repeat in my life. I also more clearly understood the flight problems faced by all those young pilots in the 1940s, when they had to both control the plane and fight.
While the Tiger Moth was fun, and surprisingly aerobatic, the Spitfire was a difficult plane to fly, much harder than the Harvard (which was its training predecessor). You had to manage several levers in quick succession (throttle, manifold, rpm,boost, pitch etc), so it must have been awful if you were also fighting! But it was really sweet in aerobatics. The Harvard, though, was also very responsive and great in aerobatics, and relatively easy to fly and land, which surprised me.
The difference in power was most obvious in a climb, where the Spitfire took about 8 seconds from take-off to reach 2000 ft. and the aerobatics were done at 300 mph (compared with 130mph for the Moth and 200mph for the Harvard). It was like driving a Maserati after using a Mini, and loops at 300mph verged on approaching fleeting, mild blackout.
At this point I must thank my eminent (just google them!) and highly qualified aerobatic instructors: Eskil Amdal (Norwegian F16 test pilot), Sam Whatmough (BA Training Manager for the Dreamliner & Air Display Pilot) and Squadron Leader 'Willy' Hackett (RAF Gnat Display team & Test Pilot) for the time and patience they spent training me. Thanks, too, go to Andy Annable (Cam-ARA) for his quality photography, Tim Granshaw (for flight co-ordination), Matt Jones (for foresight and planning) and all the others at Boultbee Flying Academy who made my 'euphoric adventure of a lifetime' possible.
Some touch and goes in a Tiger Moth were later done at Duxford.
I hope you enjoy these videos as much as I did making them. It was a fabulous experience
Andrew Leech
(aleech@ath.forthnet.gr)
NB1. Those who would like to read further about the Boultbee Course should immerse themselves in Paul Jansen's (of Merawan.com) amazing series of articles; all written from the student's point of view and containing a plethora of information. Paul is a wonderfully gifted writer, journalist and pilot who graphically brings it all to life, as if you were there. Follow this link for a thrill of prose:
Found it! a new training school for Spitfire pilots | Merawan: for pilots in Asia by pilots in Asia
Further recommended viewing: Spitfire Ace 1-4 (available on YouTube) showing training in Carolyn Grace's two-seater Spitfire.
NB2. If you are interested in further, often humorous, articles by Andrew Leech regarding the English Language Teaching scene in Greece, follow this link:
or for more general subjects, but still containing humour:
which is for Hellenic Communication Services, a Greek-American website in the USA.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia out of Goodwood Aerodrome
FSX-SE flight in the 'Dunkirk' Spitfire Mk Ia by Aeroplane Heaven with a combat interlude in Battle of Britain - Wings of Victory II. Featuring UTX Europe scenery and Goodwood Aerodrome from the UK2000 VFR Airfields Volume 1.
An Afternoon At Goodwood Airfield
Rode up to Goodwood This afternoon and there were some rather good things to see :D Watch till the end for the Mustangs departing together
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Ourto song: The Clockmaker - Vexare
The Silver Spitfire - A2A Simulations MkIIa from Goodwood to Compton Abbas P3Dv4.5
#silverspitfire #a2asimulations #thelongestflight
This year history is going to be made.
The decision to fly the Silver Spitfire around the world was an instinctive one to honour the plane's history, the people who built, maintained and flew it through more than 50 missions, and we want to commemorate those who lost their lives in the pursuit of freedom. It's going to be exciting to bring the Spitfire back to many of the places it has served and to fly it for audiences who will see this beautiful aircraft for the very first time.
Matt Jones, one of the two pilots and MD and Chief Pilot of the Boultbee Flight Academy
silverspitfire.com
boultbeeflightacademy.co.uk
airtechsimulation.co.uk
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Few issues with slightly lower frames rates in this video which I seem to be seeing since 4.5 was introduced. Hoping the hotfix can help with that.
And yes I didn't put the landing lights on when flying the approach into Compton Abbas. :)
My sim in this video:
P3Dv4.5
ORBX Chichester/Goodwood, Compton Abbas & FTX EU England
PTA
Rex Sky Force 3D
Envtex
Chaseplane
TrackIR
Commando Sea King Landing at Goodwood Aerodrome
Fly with a Spitfire
Made entirely from footage taken by our passengers, join us for a flight with a Spitfire along the south Coast of England, from Goodwood Aerodrome.
The Spitfire is a Mk.IX (RR232) and flights are available to book or buy as gift certificates at flyingwithspitfires.com
Goodwood Battle Of Britain Flypast Part 1
Well after setting out at 5:30 and getting on the Chichester Bypass at around 10 and then not get in until 12:50 it was safe to say I was rather annoyed, but after all that we saw it was well worth it and thankfully they delayed the start. I was on the site and the Poster and Programme are both excellent. I have virtually no idea which colour flight contained which aircraft but the aircraft in this part of the video are;
Supermarine Spitfire IX SM520- Boultbee Flight Academy
Supermarine Spitfire IX PV202- Historic Flying Limited
Hawker Hurricane IIc LF363- Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight
Supermarine Spitfire XVI TE311- Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight
Supermarine Spitfire V AB910- Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight
Supermarine Spitfire IX MK356- Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight
Hawker Hurricane IIc PZ865- Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight
Supermarine Spitfire II P7350- Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight
That was the First Fligh of Aircraft then followed by the second smaller Flight including;
Hawker Hurricane II R4118- Peter Vacher
Supermarine Spitfire XI PL965- Hangar 11 Collection
All those Merlins, Enjoy!!!!
Flying from Goodwood with Rob, Chris and Rich....
A flight from Goodwood aerodrome to Funtington, Chichester harbour, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight and the West Sussex coast...
Part 1 - SGCC to Goodwood
Sarisbury Green Comminity Centre, to Goodwood Airfield Cafe, long route in.
Cessna landing at Goodwood
A passenger's eye view of a 4-seater 1960's Cessna landing on the grass strip at Chichester Airfield (Goodwood) in October 2012.
Vintage Aircraft at the 2015 Goodwood Revival
Looking out at the aircraft on display at the Goodwood Revival this year. Together with Boultbee Flight Academy's 75th anniversary Battle of Britain flypast, this year saw and awesome collection of Spitfires, Seafires, Hurricanes, a Blenheim and more gather at Goodwood aerodrome in West Sussex.