A few good men ...

With a Twin Comanche to Argentinia.

How many people fly into vacation?
Well many. Germany´s tourism industry employs 10% of all employees of Germany. Mainly Europe, but also far east. Far and easy. With Condor, Tui or many other airlines. A video, some cookies, a book, breakfast before the landing. Easy.

Ok than. How many fly themself? ca. 50,000 in Germany. How many of them have flown into their own holidays into another country? My guestimate is 10% of all pilots flying. Makes 5,000.

How many of own pilots have been flying across the Atlantic? (Ok, you Lufhansa pilots - you don´t count here). My guestimate is 10% of the 10% of all pilots flying. Makes 500 in total or 0,0006 % of the population of my home country.

Pilot und Flugzeug organizes every year spectacular readers tours. This year to south america, than north toward the USA and via the northern Atlantic back to Europe. With a few good men, a mission and lots of adventurous spirit. Breakfast before the landing? Well, read the full story:



http://www.pilotundflugzeug.de/artikel/2007-09-26/Leserreise_2007

We can't get enough of it... San Francisco out of the air...

RIP

On Oct. 1st a good man died. Hermann Krug was passionate about flying - we spent quite a few hours in Lola when he was teaching me about flying. He died at home in peace with his Pilot licence, active Medical, some 25,000 h of expercience and all the strenght a man can possibly have. Never complaining about his desease and up to the end with a smile in his face and a tear in his eye. Good bye Hermann. We miss you a lot.

X-Atlantic

Well, flying in San Francisco is clearly something else. Easy but busy. A beautiful round-trip along the Bay-Area is enjoyable - but also quit an excercise for radio communications. If you think Kassel can be busy with all the Microlights in the traffic pattern and Parachuters ... welcome than to the real world in Class B airspace and an incredible amount of iron in the air.

I do miss german radio communications and also Lola´s performance. Those pictures were made from a Cessna C172.

True colors

These pictures were made on our last trip in August. Since Lola has a break now and can rest a bit while Annelies and I are flying in the States ... but are the colors not reminding of the "stars and stripes" flag of the U.S? :-)

Girls, Girls...

Captain Joerg is getting distracted here. Girls asking him to fly to France, Denmark...

Nonono... this weekend, Captain Joerg, we'll fly Lola to .. well, you´ll see! :-) . And if I promise now to all readers of this blog we'll get back with wonderfull pictures, then... it's clear where we start travelling to, no?

Your co-pilot-navigation-system-and-a-little-bit-pilot-student

So, France.

In the last days we asked our readers of where they want pictures from ... 38% decides for France. Unfortunatelly we missed the trip to Greetje in Avignon, but I am sure Annelies will come up with some extraodinary travel plans :-))

So, Greetje, do you join than? :-)

Pilot Timo

We´re taking off to our smallest crew member in Eisenach, who starts his very first school day today and invited us to a party. The weather wasn´t perfect, but flying from Kassel to Eisenach only takes us 20 minutes.

Lola´s engines really run smoothly now, and that becomes also Joerg´s "standard phrase" for the next two days ;-) - In other words, I have heard this a looooot!

But he is right, Lola flies smoothly to Eisenach, engines sounding like one, lands between helicopters dancing around in a competition and parachute jumpers hanging around in the airport sky without getting in troubles - what probably also has to do with Captain Joerg´s skills...

We´re welcomed warmly at the airport by papa and mama Lamprecht who inspect Lola -for the first time- in and out. Approved! But when they´ll fly along stays an unanswered question...

Aaah ... so good to fly again :-))

today, sunset, full moon and 10000 smiles :-)