Anybody has an original German Flight Training manual / plan...?

[indiaciki]

Transition from basic trainers to combat aircraft?

 

There should be something on the net. The RAF didn't put their Tiger moth pilot in spits without training nor did the Stearman pilots just jump int WIldcats...

 

something like that:

 

Edited November 10, 2014 by indiaciki

[Bomred]

It would be an interesting document...

[SkattoNollFem]

Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for?

https://archive.org/details/Horrido-DesJaegersSchiessfibel

[Crump]

The training situation reversed during the war.  In the begining, the average Luftwaffe pilots were better trained than the average Allied pilot.

 

By the beginning of 1944, 95% the Luftwaffe fighter pilots were very poorly trained compared to the average Allied pilot.

[=LD=Hethwill]

From cross referencing a lot of sources, websites and books:

 

Step 1. six months at a Fliegerersatzabteilung ( sort of a recruits camp )

 

Step 2. two months at a Fluganwarterkompanie - school for general aeronautical

 

Step 3. A/B Schule (elementary flying school) - light aircraft Klemm 35 - Focke Wulf 44 - Buecker 131. No reference about lenght of courses but guess it was counted in flying time (?)

 

Now from here it gets more specialized but apparently all had to have the A2/B2 licenses (?) before they got into fighter or bomber schools

 

quoting

 

"For his A2 licence the pupil received instruction in aerodynamics, aeronautical engineering, elementary navigation, meteorology, flying procedures and training in the reception of morse.

For his B license he flew higher-performance aircraft like the Arado 66, the Gotha 145 and the Arado 76, heavier aircraft like the Junkers W33 and W44 and the twin-engined Focke Wulf 58, and obsolescent combat types such as the He51, the Ar65 and the Hs123.

On successful completion of his B2 training the candidate had between 100 and 150 hours flying time."

 

After this they went to specialized schools name C licenses, The bomber pilots got their hands on He-111 and Do-17 early models. Guess the fighter arm also got their hands on early 109s.

 

On top of this ALL of them shared the aerial recon school, blind flying courses, navigation, etc, all inclusive in the C licenses.

 

After 1942 it became more messy with less choice for the candidate after receiving wings and A/B license.

 

IIRC the Star of Afrika book has this part well portrayed for the classic fighter pilot.

 

Any more info can be good especially regarding the other combatant countries air forces, but I guess the systems are pretty standard and similar.

 

 

P.S.- sample internet image, because these are hard to come by.

From and Arado 96 into a FW-190. Quite a leap.

 

 

 

Edited November 10, 2014 by =LD=Hethwill_Khan

[Crump]

Here is the training and flying experience facts from the USAAF post war Strategic Bombing Survey:

 

Number of total training hours before posting to an operational fighter unit (A-B-C license training combined):

 

 

Number of flying hours in Operational type aircraft before being sent into combat (C license training):

 

 

Size of the Opposing forces in 1944:

 

Edited November 10, 2014 by Crump

[Crump]

(U) Technical Training Within the German Luftwaffe, by Werner Kreipe and Rudolf Koester, edited by Karl Gundelach (1955). 

 

This report details the German Air Force Training Regiment and programs.

 

http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090519-055.pdf

 

http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090519-057.pdf

 

http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090519-059.pdf

 

http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090519-060.pdf

 

http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090519-061.pdf

[indiaciki]

Yes. This is the information I was looking for. Thanks. Great posts all of you