Ju 88 cr. somewhere in Alps on 7 Feb 1942

[Matti Salonen]

I think, that some new versions were sent to the schools to facilitate training with them before the crews were sent to the front. The crews should be familiar with the operational aircraft before entering the squadrons.
When the Finnish pilots were at Werneuchen in March 1943 for Bf 109G-2 conversion training, the school had just received a few of this version, although major version was still Bf 109E. Some squadrons were at that time still flying Bf 109F. For the school personnel G-2 was so new and powerful, that the pilot trainees were a little bit reluctant to fly it and preferred E.

Yes, the crash locations are really quite scattered. Maybe the crews were training long distance navigation?

Matti

[RT]

I checked on some log-books nd 4 hours flights pop-out with Gr.KFS so quite the time to hv a "Spaten" in Münich nd returned on the Ostsee cost , "Takt. überlandflug", "Sender-anfl.", nd a very special 8 hours flight "Instr.flug"

Rémi