As a pilot, I’m privileged to see a lot of the world. Lots of different cities with their own unique points. Often its difficult to plan a trip. To start you have to decide what you want to see on your trip. This is the easiest step. If you want to see the beach you …
Flying is something special, you know this already because you wouldn’t read my blogs if you wouldn’t have any affection with flying what so ever. When you are in flight school you have a few points you are working towards. one of these points is your first Solo flight. You start flying with an instructor where …
In the past few months I’ve been traveling a lot and every time I was packing my stuff I found out that I was packing way too much, for the bag I mean. Like in the past, going to school and you need to have 20 books with you for that day but you don’t …
I have no clue how to write this down, the thought of this subject is making me tear. Some of you read my blogs from the beginning and know that my best friend from flight school past away in a plane accident in 2009. As I’m writing this I realize this is 9 years ago. Sounds …
That does that even mean? A type rating? There is a big misunderstanding about pilots and the aircraft they can fly. So today I’ll try to explain a little bit about the different aircraft and how it works. To start a pilot has to get a license like a car license. With a car license, you …
This year I was not planning to go on winter sport! That plan failed completely and in March we went anyway. I was on duty when Petra called me that she really really really wanted to go skiing. First I thought she was joking but after she hung up the phone she started sending me …
Turbulence is one of the things that frightens the most passengers on board of an aircraft. People mostly thing that the wings of an aircraft will fall off because of this or it might end up into something worse but these stories are not true. In this blog, I’ll try to explain in an easy way …
While waiting on the airport I started to think about the way we travel. Why do we prefer to fly? Why take a train or a car. Why take a bicycle at all. Starting with just taking a simple walk. Walk, I walk if I feel like it but if I know the walk is …
How to fly a plane? Easy! The formula on the right explains everything that you need to know. I promise you need nothing else. This is more or less everything they told me the first day of aviation training. I didn’t remember the formula anymore but at the time they pretended like you are going …
You might have seen it already a few times on Instagram or Facebook or even youtube. Last year in September I’ve been to Indonesia with Petra (GF). I was in Bali once before and I swore I would never go back there ever again. This first time Bali was in 2011. Bali is an island …