Showing posts with label Sunrise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunrise. Show all posts

Saturday, June 4, 2011

up north, where the sun never rests

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airplane status is all good engines running, propeller spinning, we`re headed almost straight up north tonight. After leaving Cologne and passing by Hannover, Bremen and Hamburg we`re now almost abeam Copenhagen, weather has cleared and we have a nice view a the ships sailing the balitc sea below. We`ll at least we can see their lights…

It´s half past 12 local time and still its dusk, the sky ahead (direction north) is still glowing in a fantastic varierty of colours. So far the remaing lights helps a lot to fight of the tiredness. As minutes pass we keep pushing north and after another 30min its time to start the descend towards oslo, our destination tonight.

After an eventless landing at an airport still very much a sleep we have to wait for a couple of hours and wait for the cargo for the return flight.Amazingly the sky is still lightly light, and while we head for a coffee daylight is rapidly approaching.The clouds are still dark but the sky above is allright light up brightly.

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after landing in Oslo

By the time we finished loading its infact still very early morning (around 4 local) and our plane sits on the ramp in broad daylight. So ist sunshade time again!

Still traffic is very light to not existiong so after a smooth departure we get a lovely direct of more than half the route and are southbound again heading for Hahn airport with a fully loaded plane.

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southern Norway                             northern Denmark

Sipping coffee out the thermos bottle I`m enjoying the beatiful view of the northern landscape.passing underneath, life couldn`t be much better

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Elbe river

As the radio frequencies and the sky start to fill up with early morning flights its time for us to get ready for our approach in hahn, a few nice directs and we´re qucikyl established on the ILS.

After securing our plane its of the hotel for us, and finally off to bed

Friday, October 29, 2010

Sunrise



Life on the line… BEGINS!

Yes I`m done with the type rating and base training and after lots of paperwork I finally can really start!

Of course for the first few legs (40 to be exact) I´ll be flying together with a sort of instructor or more correctly “training captain”. They´re supposed to help me start in the normal ops and also guide and teach where necessary. But as mentioned above this part of my training will be done on the normal flights, so carrying passengers or cargo across Europe.

One of my first flights took me east to Sofia, Bulgaria. We took off early in the morning and so we were treated with a magnificent sunrise over Austria.












I´ve been able to see lots of sunsets during my training flights but never a sunrise in the air. So If I recall correctly this was my second sunrise I´ve seen from the cockpit, the first one long ago when was still a small kid dreaming of becoming a pilot. Flying with my family I was allowed to visit the cockpit on a Qantas 767 just as the sun started to rise, somehow that stuck in memory…

Cheers