Germany - Northeast

We continue our tour around the northwest of Germany.

The last flight ended at Rerik (EDCR), and we depart today from here. We overfly the old Hanse City of Rostock and land at Purkshof (EDCX). We follow the coast and reach Barth (EDBH). It is a regional airport certified for IFR traffic. 

Only 12 miles east, we reach Stralsund (EDBV). The airport is limited to aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of 5.7 tons. After departure, we overfly the Hanse City of Stralsund with its two churches, St Nicholas and St Mary. Our next stop is on the island of Rügen. We land at Rugen (EDCG). The airport was built to accommodate agricultural flights. Beginning in 1990, flights to Bornholm, Berlin, and Hamburg were offered. We fly to the northeastern part of Germany's largest island and then turn south.

We land at Peenemünde (EDCP). The Peenemünde Army Research Center was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office.  Several German-guided missiles and rockets of World War II were developed by the HVP, including the V-2 rocket. The works were attacked by the British in Operation Crossbow in August 1943, before falling to the Soviets in May 1945. End of April 1945, a group of more than 450 important rocket scientists from Peenemünde were captured by the U.S. Army in Oberammergau while Wernher von Braun, Walter Dornberger, and several others surrendered in Reutte on May 2, 1945. As part of Operation Paperclip, a group of 127 engineers was eventually contracted for the continuation of the work at the White Sands Proving Grounds in the USA.  Only a few members of the previous HVP staff, such as Helmut Gröttrup and Erich Apel, signed a contract with the Soviets and were forcibly transferred to the USSR as part of Operation Osoaviakhim in October 1946.  Although rumors spread that the Soviet space program revived Peenemünde as a test range, more destruction of the technical facilities of Peenemünde took place between 1948 and 1961. Only the power station, the airport, and the railroad link to Zinnowitz remained functional. The gas plant for the production of liquid oxygen still lies in ruins at the entrance to Peenemünde. Very little remains of most of the other word not allowed German facilities there. The Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum opened in 1992 in the shelter control room and the area of the former power station and is an anchor point of ERIH, the European Route of Industrial Heritage. The main turbine hall of the Peenemünde plant has been used as a concert venue, including a 2022 performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic as part of the Usedom Classical Music Festival. 

Now we reach the island of Usedom, divided between Germany and Poland. We land at Heringsdorf (EDAH).

We head south along the German-Polish Border and arrive at Pasewalk (EDCV). We depart to reach today's destination, Finow (EDAV), just northeast of Berlin. Just north of the airport is the Finow Canal, one of the oldest artificial waterways in Europe.

The flight is 200 miles long and has 7 landings. All GA aircraft are suitable. I will be in the A2A Comanche. Please fly what you like.

The flight plans are here.

Recommended scenery: 

EDCR Rerik

EDCX Purkshof

EDBH Barth

EDAH Heringsdorf

EDCV Pasewalk

EDAV Finow

We try real weather. Please set your simulator for a 3 pm local departure.

Multiplayer Particulars:

Date and time: Sunday, June 15 25, 2025. 1600 UTC

Microsoft Flight Simulator Multiplayer: United States East server.

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