Photos Taken While Flying

Somewhere over Colorado headed back to Dallas.
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On our way back from AU.

Kai

 

What's the equipment?

 

Im going ti guess dreamliner.

 

Unfortunately, the prop blocks a bit of St. Helens, but otherwise you can see Mountains Rainier, St. Helens, and Adams all in this shot. Hood was clearly visible out the side window.
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Wondering the carrier also... with that layout in first.

 

Flight testing our gear in Grand Prairie on the new Airbus H145D2, what a beast of a machine.
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And probably Jefferson and 3 Sisters out the back window. If you were a little higher may have seen Glacier and Baker as well. PNW has the best CAVU of anywhere in the country.

 

I guess 787 with the windows. Carrier appears to be United Airlines. I could be way off though!

 

Cool.. bunch of q's if I can..

You are medical ("..dr") but gear looks like surveillance? or is that thermal to find people for rescue?

Airbus is "new" but looks like all kinds of different parts put together?

Sorry for my confusion

 

I really want to see one or more of those mountains up nice and close..

I see there is a really interesting car/motorcycle/plane museum right by Mt Hood that actively does things as well Home - Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum

 

Each subcontractor's parts are a different color?


http://www.airbushelicopters.com/website/en/press/Airbus-Helicopters-raises-the-maximum-take-off-weight-of-the-H145-to-3,700kg_1899.html

 

sir, good questions:

- the different colors represent different factories, green is Kawasaki Heavy Ind. the yellow is Airbus Germany (Eurocopter)
- not a medical Dr, have been working on helicopters since high school. we are the only company in world specializing in mounts for helicopters, including EO/IR, movie/ entertainment, LIDAR, searchlights etc. our mounts do all the overhead shot for F1

 

Super cool! Where in Vancouver are you?

Ill be in Kamloops next week, Prince George shortly after, and Burnaby at the end of March.

 

Ha, I was guessing, but guessed correctly.

"Each subcontractor's parts are a different color? "

 

Sir born and raised in Pitt Meadows, spend most of my time in sunny San Diego.

if anyone is interested the world helicopter show is coming up in Dallas, called Heli-Expo, early March, you can see it all there. Not to be missed, think Monterey car week for helicopters.

 

I had my first solo flight yesterday. Aircraft was a Diamond DV20 Katana, at Hohenems airport (LOIH, western part of Austria). My flight instructor took me by surprise as I was expecting "regular" flight lessons. After a brief test flight with a second instructor (four-eye-principle implemented at our flight training school), I did three traffic patterns on my own.
Picture shows a video printscreen of the final approach of the first traffic pattern. As runway 05 of LOIH is quite short (landing distance available 590m or approx. 1900ft), you have to make sure to land right at the beginning of the runway. That is why the approach is quite low.

I will never forget this day.

Cheers!
Martin
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Congratulations!

 

Congrats Martin. I did my first solo in a Diamond as well. Wonderful aircraft.

 

Had to post this today as I am boarding a long flight over to Vancouver on an A330. This was the only plane I have not flown in yet with Air Canada. Which means in mere hours I will have flown the entire Air Canada fleet of Airplanes (excluding all configurations).

787
777
767
A330
A321
A320
A319
E190/175
CRJ705
CRJ200
CL65
CRJ100
Q4
Dash 8 - 300
Dash 8 - 100
Beechcraft 1900D

I'm not sure if this is "cool" or just scary.
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Super cool picture and congrats!

 

Very fitting that I got into Premium Economy which is basically like business class on american carriers. lay back seats with a pillow/blanket, more leg room, and better width. It made the 4.5hr of flight time easier to deal with.

Now lets finish my trip on the crop duster! From an A330 to a Dash 8-300.
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Congrats Martin. Learning in that environment (short runway) will serve you well.

 

Thanks Don.

Thanks SVO. Yes, I like the Diamond very much as well. I was surprised on how much of a difference 160lb (weigth of my flight instructor) have on the flight characteristics of the aircraft. Completely different plane.

Thanks Tamas. Very impressive list of airplanes you have experience with. I just started with my humble list

Thanks Jim. Yep, it is quite a challenge in the beginning but I am glad to be able to learn this with the help of my flight instructor.


I uploaded a video of the first solo traffic pattern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZToB81KVZ0

Always happy to learn from the pros.
Martin

 

Martin,

Keep in mind I am, sadly, just a passenger on those flights. I've only had two flights behind the yolk of a plane (with an instructor)