Bolkow BO208C Cockpit Flight around Nördlingen

[@Purlee100]

This really takes me back! I have flown many hours in the Bo 208 in New Zealand, it is a delightful aircraft to fly. Flying it is more a matter of ''wearing it'' than getting into it. One modification we had, which might be worth considering, was a loop of armoured cable attached to the canopy frame, which looped under the grab handle and went close around the canopy latch, the idea being that, if the latch fails or is accidentally operated in flight, the canopy does not come off and take the tail with it, the leading edge of the canopy being held down by the cable.

[@BRABAZON49]

I learnt to fly in the PN Flying Schools B208’s in the mid 1960s! I seem to recall £13 dual and £9 solo (just before decimalisation). I also recall the armoured loop around the canopy. If my memory serves me correctly it was one of PNFS’s Bolkows that brought about that “loop” requirement. Sadly, I only acquired a Student Pilot Licence but I fondly recall Milson Airport on a fine, sunny day with occasional NAC Friendships (and Viscounts) interrupting my circuits. I believe all imported Bolkows into NZ in the 1960s are still flying. Happy days…60+ years ago!

[@AchimEngels]

Auf das Instrument klopfen hilft immer.

[@wckoek]

The ones I see do not have such better instruments. Can it be made IFR or it is VFR only plane?

[@n26fe34]

schwer hektisch und nervöse da auf dem linken Sitz....

[@MarcUlm]

Aber eine schöne Landung ;)