Once again I was on my way to a meeting last Sunday. Participating in the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SESAR stands for Single European Sky ATM Research and basically does what it says – strive for a unified ATM system in … Continue reading
Archive | Trip reports
Trip reports of any flight where I wasn’t the pilot.
New planespotting gallery online – Tokyo Haneda
I have finally uploaded a couple of photos of a trip to Tokyo Haneda last year! Being able to compare it with the city’s Narita Airport I can say that Haneda is much more spotter friendly and offers better views. … Continue reading →
First A320 with Sharklets for Lufthansa
Boeing has been using winglets on its Boeing 737 aircraft for many years and finally Airbus is doing the same. They presented the first aircraft last year at the ILA Berlin Air Show on an Air Asia aircraft. Yesterday the … Continue reading →
Aero India 2013 near Bangalore
Every two years the city of Bangalore in the south of India is host to one of the biggest airshows in Asia, called Aero India. By accident I flew to Bangalore and stayed for two days, before continuing on to … Continue reading →
New photo gallery – Planespotting at Sharjah
Having flown to Dubai last week, we took off to Frankfurt from Sharjah the next day again. While the aircraft was being refueled, I used my bit of spare time to take a few photos of aircraft taking-off and landing. … Continue reading →
Stopover in London
Frankfurt! It was once again so annoying and so… Frankfurt! The flight to London was delayed by 20 minutes already. I suspect that they changed an aircraft on short-notice because it was supposed to be an A320, but in the … Continue reading →
No time for rest – on the way to Singapore!
I only spent 12 hours at home and now I am on the road again! Having arrived from Krasnoyarsk yesterday in the evening, I barely had enough time to get something to eat with my fiance, take a rest and … Continue reading →
A weekend in the simulator and Manchester
Last weekend I couldn’t stay at home, but rather had to go to Frankfurt to do some flying. I spent Saturday in the simulator and Sunday in Manchester… I got up at 3.30 am on Saturday morning to take the … Continue reading →