March 21, 20188 yr HI all Well, my first screenshot post. I'm still trying to get back into flying (time wise, setting up routine etc) but this was a short hop from EHAM to EHGG Well well. Some dark clouds are coming, typical Netherlands Oh, wait, what, there they are already... Hurry hurry. I love the drama in this shot Lining up 09. Advancing to 40%...focus..... oh, hey, look, the textures here really look like the old runway > DONT GET DISTRACTED PILOT! hmm, not sure about the clouds behind me. what do you guys think? Anyway, off we go.. Forgot to do the after takeoff checklist.. as always FL150.. oohh, sso ssoo fluffy I'm gonna die! Hold your breath, hold your nose, back into the clouds (1 minute cruise!) Land ahoy captain! Is that Light I see? Or are my eyes just so beautiful? OKay, so Groningen actually has nice weather.. how typical. These kind of moments I ask myself.. aren't you a little young to be a pilot > yes.. yes I am Practicing RNAV! (now everyone will look at everything and tell me what I set wrong.. if anything? :P Save on the ground! ooh, such nice skies! ( I will screenshot during landing more, I promise :P That Is what we went through. thanks REX and AS16 for showing that off! Cheers for reading and looking guys! Edited March 21, 20188 yr by Victoroos Victor Roos
March 22, 20188 yr 16 hours ago, Victoroos said: HI all Well, my first screenshot post. I'm still trying to get back into flying (time wise, setting up routine etc) but this was a short hop from EHAM to EHGG Well well. Some dark clouds are coming, typical Netherlands Oh, wait, what, there they are already... Hurry hurry. I love the drama in this shot Lining up 09. Advancing to 40%...focus..... oh, hey, look, the textures here really look like the old runway > DONT GET DISTRACTED PILOT! hmm, not sure about the clouds behind me. what do you guys think? Anyway, off we go.. Forgot to do the after takeoff checklist.. as always FL150.. oohh, sso ssoo fluffy I'm gonna die! Hold your breath, hold your nose, back into the clouds (1 minute cruise!) Land ahoy captain! Is that Light I see? Or are my eyes just so beautiful? OKay, so Groningen actually has nice weather.. how typical. These kind of moments I ask myself.. aren't you a little young to be a pilot > yes.. yes I am Practicing RNAV! (now everyone will look at everything and tell me what I set wrong.. if anything? :P Save on the ground! ooh, such nice skies! ( I will screenshot during landing more, I promise :P That Is what we went through. thanks REX and AS16 for showing that off! Cheers for reading and looking guys! Nice. I visited EHAM last year when I was on a European tour. Although I have flown into EHAM once, on a British Caledonian BAC111 in 1984, I went to the airport a couple of times last year because I was staying at an Airport Hotel, a Radisson, and I wanted to take the train into Central Amsterdam. However there was no direct route from the airport then so I had to change trains coming and going. A very nice Dutch man helped guide me to my connecting train so I would not lose time waiting for the connection. Central Amsterdam has wonderful food and architecture, the train station itself is a great example of architecture. And having the trains underneath the airport concourse is a real convenience whatever direction one is going in. Amsterdam Schipol has a great indoor mall, good ground transportation, and of course for aircraft spotting it can't be beat. I did find the hoteliers there a little bit rude though and since I managed several hotels I had to tell them off at the Radisson when they would not give my tour group an early departure breakfast. We only had 15 minutes for breakfast before our departure thru Belgium for our Calais ferry back to England. I remarked that that ferry was the largest ship I had ever been on, it had food courts, shopping and lots of room for cars and passengers. It was fun watching the cars and trucks get loaded, and inbound to Paris from Calais I would see many British cars navigating the motorway with their right hand drive. Again, nice post, thank you for sharing a nice memory from last year for me. Calais has strict security due to the many foreigners who try to sneak into France for jobs. The route out is surrounded by barbed wire until one gets to the WWII battlefields and memorials, then the countryside in France is quite nice with gentle hills and greenery which someone like me from Phoenix does not see much of. I found the French very nice people as long as one welcomes them with a Bonjour, they even threw a birthday party for me when I was visiting Bordeaux with my group. John
March 22, 20188 yr Great shots. And I appreciate and love the narration. Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
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