Jämi Fly In 2013

Last sunday we decided to attend Jämi Fly In and fly there with an ultralight airplane with my father. Jämi is situated not too far away from Tampere and the flight time from Nummela airfield is about one hour depending on the wind. Jämi Fly In has traditionally been a very good event which started out as a gathering for experimental airplane pilots and has now evolved into a family event with an airshow and lots of food and aviation related shops and stalls.

Our ultralight parked at Jämi airfield.

The flight to Jämi was nice. We cruised at about 2500 feet and the wind was all the time very light so it was an easy go. I had carefully read through the arrival procedures and made the appropriate user waypoints to the GPS beforehands so navigating and arriving at the airfield didn't pose a problem. There was a certain predefined route, which you had to follow unless instructed otherwise. This was to keep the traffic situation under control although the airfield stayed as an uncontrolled aerodrome for the whole event.

Some aerobatics :)

The airshow included lots of model airplanes, glider aerobatics, other aerobatic performances with a Pitts Special and Su-26, for example, parachuting, experimental airplanes, the Tuulia Team (which flies the same Tuulia's I have a licence for) and the Fouga Magister. My favourite was of course the Fokker DVII, which was flown by a Swedish airline pilot Mikael Carlson. I love WWI fighters and it was very nice to see this one flying!

The Fokker DVII

Another interesting airplane we saw was the Tiira, which is an illegally built experimental aircraft made out of home materials. It uses greenhouse plastic for covering material and has no ailerons. A certain Finnish gentleman built this plane in the 70's and flew many years without a licence until the police came and took the airplane away (he has built at least two new ones after that and continues illegal flying). It now stays in a museum. What's also interesting is that this one hasn't got a single instrument on board. What an aircraft!

I'd like to give this one a go... or maybe not!

I guess this rules out instrument flying?