Crew Dragon from Florida to Orbit

Please enjoy this video with Music, which uses the wonderful Orbiter 2016 Space Simulation program.  The Crew Dragon is a free add-on for the sim, I substituted the free sound Add-On with background music from Richard Elliott, who I have seen in concert at the Desert Sky amphitheater in Arizona where I live.  I have virtually all of his music, much of it out of print now.  I first heard these songs when a colleague and I swapped tapes (remember cassette tapes?) when we were flying to Venezuela together via JFK from SFO, then onto Caracas from JFK via the wonderful Avensa airlines, then on Avensa from Caracas to Margarita. 

She gave me Richard Elliott to listen to, I gave her Michael Mcdonald which is funny, she met Richard Elliott and I met Michael's and his bandmates family in 1995 after seeing him in several concerts, that was the last concert I ever saw him in.  Michael's music I always listen to when I fly, except when I am Pilot In Command on those rare occasions I am in the air with a CFI since I do not like to pilot an aircraft alone--I cannot speak fast enough to handle radio comms so I hire a CFI to fly with me.

My colleague and I swear the Venezuela biz trip was the best vacation we ever had--our client would dismiss us after we'd only work four hours, then we'd go to lunch, go swimming in the Margarita Concorde's wonderful beach, then he'd drive us around the Island.  One evening he took us to an empty amusement park on the Island and the three of us, "The Unholy Trinity", lol, had the time of our lives.

I was very sad to leave my client, but I have stayed in contact with both my colleague, and my client, now CIO of a hotel chain in the Caribbean, ever since.  I have even survived four flyovers of the Bermuda triangle, on that biz trip and on another to Puerto Rico.  I was abducted by aliens during the trip from our pax aircraft, but they did not perform experiments on me, they were just curious who we were since I had visited Devil's Tower in the 60's when I was a boy, but my parents saved me from a Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind back then, lol

Warning--this video is 15 minutes, it covers takeoff from Florida to an overflight of the eastern seaboard with views of Long Island, Boston, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Hudson Bay in the end.  I last overflew Hudson Bay on the way home on a non-stop British Airways flight from London to Phoenix, in June of 2017.

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John