A delivery flight across northern Germany
Not every flight on this channel is about sightseeing. This one is framed as a ferry flight — repositioning a freshly repaired Piper PA28-236 Dakota from Nordhorn-Lingen (EDWN) to Harle/Wangerland (EDXP) for its owner, rather than flying a route purely for the view. At just over 13 minutes, it covers a meaningful stretch of Lower Saxony on the way to the North Sea coast.
The route crosses the flat, green countryside typical of this part of northern Germany, rendered by Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 from real-world terrain and satellite data, before arriving at Wangerland — a municipality on the coast opposite the East Frisian Islands.
The Piper PA28-236 Dakota
The Piper PA28-236 Dakota is a single-engine, fixed-gear light aircraft from Piper’s long-running PA-28 Cherokee family, distinguished by its larger wing and more powerful engine compared to the base Cherokee variants. It’s a new aircraft type for this channel, offering a different handling profile from the Cessna 172, Beechcraft Bonanza, and Diamond DA40 featured in earlier flights.
Why a ferry flight
A ferry flight is a positioning flight — moving an aircraft from one location to another, often after maintenance or repair, without the scenic detours or sightseeing stops of a leisure route. This one gives a straightforward, point-to-point view of the German countryside between two general-aviation airfields, flown VFR under calm, scattered-cloud conditions.
Watch the flight
The full ferry flight is embedded above, or you can watch it on YouTube.
Related flights
For another German route, see the Boeing 737 MAX departure from Frankfurt or the above-the-clouds flight near Düsseldorf, both linked below.
