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Departing just after sunrise and before it gets hot. Thirteen hours to Sri Lanka, mainly over water so there unfortunately won’t be many interesting things on this leg to photograph.
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Flying over Muscat
Masalama (Good-Bye) to the desert and mountains.
Late afternoon thunderstorms are common in this part of the world. This is just a snapshot of the weather to come.
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Some members of the Jetwing Lagoon Hotel staff and Mr. S. Jude perera (blue shirt), founder of the Christian Pilots Association Of Sri Lanka (C.P.A.S). Mr. Jude was kind enough to give me a quick tour of the historic city of Negombo. Wish I had more time to see the “furry, scaled and feathered creatures” of this beautiful country.
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The Jetwing resorts here are absolutely beautiful.
Embarks dream is to provide a better life for the street dogs of Sri Lanka and to give them the love, respect and home they deserve. www.embarkpassion.com
Flying over Crete to PAXIS, our entry point into Egyptian airspace.
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Departed Mersa Matrum International airport and flew to 6th October airport just south of Cairo, where the airplane was to be hangared while we visited the Pyramids. Fortunately, we made it just in time as a sandstorm approaching from the West the visibility dropped to almost zero.
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Eddie Gould our handler from General Aviation Support Egypt and Charley Brown, the friendliest camel on the planet.
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Departing 6th October Airport you have to climb (circle) to 8500 feet over the airport before they will allow you to speak with Cairo departure.
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Nile river.
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This week my sponsor Jeppesen unveiled a great video about my trip as part of their ongoing generous support for this endeavor. Now that I’m two weeks into it, I can tell you that having Jeppesen charts and databases on board has helped me at every step along the way.
This week’s episode of AOPA Live! features Tom Haines’ great segment on the France to Germany leg. The coverage starts at about 15:30 into the video.
Susan Parson, FAA — this one’s for you and all the fine folks within the FAA organization that make the FAA Safety Briefing a reality. Christos Gr, Papazafiriou, age 86, is the oldest active pilot in Greece.
Bavarian Alps near the Eagles Nest in Germany
Mountain top near Bosnia
Can you find the tourist in this picture?
Dinner in Thessaloniki, Greece – Tom Haines (Senior Vice President, Media and Outreach, AOPA), Anton Koutsoudakis (President, AOPA Greece), Adrian Eichhorn, Bill Costa (President, Aero Club Thessaloniki).
Just a few miles from home!!
A passerby carrying the Olympic Torch.
I’m preparing to depart Germany as bad weather is quickly approaching from the North. In fact, it’s supposed to snow here this weekend. The visit here was a memorable one and perhaps the best part of any Expo proved to be true once again – the fellowship of Airmen! AERO is Europe’s most important and largest trade show for General Aviation (over 600 exhibitors from 34 nations and it was an honor to be part of it.
Comparing name tags with Toni Eichhorn (center) and Walter Eichhorn (right). Toni is an A320 Captain with Lufthansa and his father Walter is a retired Lufthansa B747 Captain. In their free time, they travel as a father and son aerobatics team to airshows in Germany and neighboring countries. My father, a decorated Army pilot, and I never performed together but we did share many memorable flights in the Bonanza. Guess you could say flying is in our blood on both sides of the pond!
An Extra 330LE with an electric motor!
Blue airplanes seem to be catching on!
A reduced scale all carbon fiber L39.
What every aviation event needs – a good dog or two!
Walter (right) and Friedrich (left) in front of the VOLOCOPTER, the world’s first certified Multicopter. Talk about cool this thing is amazing. Walter and Friedrich own a Bonanza here in Germany and Walter and I first met a few years ago at a Bonanzas to Oshkosh (B2OSH) party in, Wisconsin. Small world.
So now the journey resumes. Tomorrow Tom and I will fly to Greece. Stay tuned for more exciting pictures and updates.