Sky Knights

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SKy Knights squadron

The Sky Knights squadron is a FlightGear organization regrouping the Sky Knights Demonstration team (which is also OPRedFlag's demonstration team), general aviation pilots and the Sky Knights flight school.

Sky Knights Demonstration team

As to now, the Sky Knights demonstration team flies on Mirage 2000-5 with custom liveries and consist of 9 active pilots qualified in formation flying. The pilots Knight One to Knight Three are the founders and developers of this entity, and the squadron is maintained by all demo team pilots. The pilots are:

  • Knight One - VooDoo3
  • Knight Two - Wolf (aka ROGUE31 & Sputnik)
  • Knight Three - VIPER
  • Knight Four - 12787 (aka Lachlan)
  • Knight Five - Cactus
  • Knight Six - Vader (aka Peace & Kazaign)
  • Knight Seven - Salmon
  • Knight Eight - FOX-02 (aka Mako & OPFOR88)
  • Knight Nine - Mr.Roven (aka DBA-953)

The Demo team is based at LFTH - Le Palsylvestre Navy and LFMN - Nice Côte d'Azur, on the French Riviera.

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Four Sky Knights at the ready

Sky Knights Flight School

The Sky Knights flight school consists of flight instructors, usually members of the demo team, and of trainees. There are several courses of training:

Military cursus Helicopter cursus Big military cursus Warbird cursus
A-337G Skymaster Alouette II PA-28 Cherokee A-337G Skymaster
F-16 Falcon; Mirage 2000D SA-340 Gazelle C-160 Transall DH-98 Mosquito
F-14 Tomcat; F-15 Eagle; MiG-21 Fishbed, Jaguar, MiG-29 Fulcrum, SU-27SK Flanker EC-135 Squirrel; CH-53 Stallion A-330 Phoenix (stage Transport / Tanker) / B-1B Lancer (stage Bomber) / RC-137 Rivet Joint (Stage AWACS) Spitfire mk. XIII; BF-109 Emil; P-51D Mustang