Co-ordinates are 52.14053N, 13.30582E , halfway between EDAZ ( Schonhagen Airport ) and the KLF VOR. Take off from RW 07 at EDAZ and head 130 degs for about a minute. The airfield even has a control tower buried in the trees. A fairly long runway, I put the 787 down there after i had some controllability issues after taking off from Berlin Brandenberg.  From the air it looked like a good spot to land. Doesn't show up on the inflight microsoft map but you can find it on google. Took me most of today to find it again.  Fairly long runway and the taxi experience is surreal through the trees.

Cool find!

Google Earth give it an ID:  Bunker Ruine Schießbahn Ost Map - Military facility - Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, Germany (mapcarta.com)

If you have the Freeware Autogen Helipads from Simfocus you can take off from pad H1390 and fly West Southwest. Just be sure to avoid the restricted airspace South Southeast of that abandoned Airfield. There are high explosives being tested there. 😉

https://www.bam.de/Navigation/EN/About-us/Organisation/Locations/TTS/bam-tts.html

And the whole area around the airfield really has some history. It started as a military testing site for artillery in the Kaiserreich in 1875 and culminated to the site where Germany developed their military prototypes during 3rd Reich including the attempts to build an atom-bomb and nuclear reactors.

Edited February 25, 20242 yr by Farlis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kummersdorf

 

That's an idea for a little flight later.  Seems to have a history.  

Germany is a good place to fly in msfs as it was well represented in the original release along with an excellent world update and some city updates.  Additionally, there is plenty of freeware and payware scenery covering the country - My Germany addon folder has become quite large over the last couple of years.

Simulate night bombing raids over Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig and Dresden and low level passes over the Mona and Eda Dams to add a bit of spice (just remembered that I haven't searched out Colditz Castle yet).

I've done football stadium tours and the hockenheim and Nuremberg ring notor racing circuits are worth a flyover 

Berkin,Koln, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Frankfurt, Dortmund, Dusseldorf Stuttgart and Leipzig are well created and I have addon scenery for all of them too (I'm sure I've forgotten a few).

 

Edited February 25, 20242 yr by cianpars

It's a bit of a sad thing that Germany still so often is associated with World War 2. For me, it sounds quite disturbing that one could have fun bombing cities where hundreds of thousand people died. Don't get me wrong - Fascist Germany got what it deserved then, but after all, they still were humans.

EDIT: I just saw some posts above the context to WW2 - so don't take my post too harsh.

Edited February 25, 20242 yr by meerkat

7 minutes ago, meerkat said:

 For me, it sounds quite disturbing that one could have fun bombing cities where hundreds of thousand people died. 

My thoughts exactly. Well said.

Drone view of the area:

Jürgen S. - Google Maps

1 hour ago, meerkat said:

It's a bit of a sad thing that Germany still so often is associated with World War 2. For me, it sounds quite disturbing that one could have fun bombing cities where hundreds of thousand people died. Don't get me wrong - Fascist Germany got what it deserved then, but after all, they still were humans.

EDIT: I just saw some posts above the context to WW2 - so don't take my post too harsh.

I guess that some of us are old enough to understand.

Edited February 25, 20242 yr by cianpars

The only thing worse than area bombing: Virtue signalling!☹️

1 hour ago, DD_Arthur said:

The only thing worse than area bombing: Virtue signalling!☹️

Its really not

1 hour ago, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

Its really not

Only if you have no sense of humour.

3 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

The only thing worse than area bombing: Virtue signalling!☹️

Yeah, sure.

Because that's certainly my first thought when I fly over England. Simulating bombing runs on London and Conventry....

NOT!

@mobeans10 Very cool find and very easy to find. From RWY 07 at EDAZ head 130 for about a minute. 

55 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Yeah, sure.

Because that's certainly my first thought when I fly over England. Simulating bombing runs on London and Conventry....

NOT!

In that case,  these people find you 'disturbing';

6 hours ago, meerkat said:

 For me, it sounds quite disturbing that one could have fun bombing cities where hundreds of thousand people died. 

 

6 hours ago, Reader said:

My thoughts exactly. Well said.

Are you disturbing....?