Eindhoven, Netherlands

On Sunday i took the chance and flew with the newest addition to our fleet from Hannover to Eindhoven and back. D-IDAX, a Cessna 425 "Conquest I" provided a smooth ride over a solid overcast along the way. Sometimes my job isn't that bad :-)

Being a Freight-Dog again

Sometimes I miss doing the dirty cargo-flights. It sounds strange, but since I am working for an airline, I rarly have any time to hop on a plane and acompany flights. This does not make it easier to reach my goal: having completed 1.000 flights by my 40th birthday. Last thursday though I sold a cargo flight to a customer, departing from our homebase Hannover exactly at the end of my work - so so need to think twice. I ordered our maintanance department to remove the passenger-seats from one of our Piper Cheyennes except for two and after a long time I joined our flight crew on their way from Dortmund to Liverpool - both airports being firsts for myself, at least to visit them by air. Everything went very smooth and we had minimum ground-time on both airports.
An interresting sight was an obviously crashed Cessna 411 at Dortmund which must have been at its last resting-place for many years. We departed Dortmund into the cloudless and star-clear night and only experienced some clouds and rain near our destination Liverpool.
What a great get-away.

Istanbul weekend-trip with a handicap

A few days after we booked our four day extended weekend trip in Febuary, I broke my right foot - and that three times! Katrin and I decided to fly there anyway. We departed from Hannover to Istanbuls new low-cost airport SAW / Sabhia Gökcen very early on saturtay morning 27FEB10 on one of Sun Express' B 737-800. If anyone ever asks me how I would describe so called ethno-traffic I would strongly recomend joining exactly this flight. About 70% of our fellow passengers where Turkish people of all ages bringing most their household with them.
What a busy city - our hotel was directly in the citycenter in walking-distance to all important sights such as the bazars, mosques and the Bosphorus. Despite my handicap we did walk to all the places to see - for miles and miles. Even though the weather was not so kind to us we did the full tourist programme anyway. Visiting the Turkish Air Force Museum, going on a boat-cruise and visiting all major attractions.
Over the next days, I will upload some pics to my flickr.com page - enjoy!