Europe 2020 - July 2023
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| Lithuania in the last light of the day - the River Nemen with Russia's Kaliningrad and the Curonian Lagoon in the distance |
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| The River Nemen, Lithuania |
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| 1000 hours on the Pilatus PC12 - and loving every minute ! |
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| Landing in EGKB Biggin Hill, London, UK |
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| Artistic apron lights in LBWN Varna, Bulgaria |
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| Varna, Bulgaria's colourful terminal |
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| Delivering spare parts to LSZH Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Warsaw city centre |
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| About to pass over Babice airport on a visual approach to Warsaw Chopin |
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| Charcoal sketch effect of our landing in Warsaw |
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| Our Pilatus PC12/45 in the sunshine on the EPWA Warsaw apron |
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| Departing LSZH Zurich, Switzerland after a long day |
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| Following an interesting contrail |
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| Račice, Czech Republic - the River Elbe and Labe Arena |
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| Reflections - approach lights off our nose landing in Warszawa |
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| Reflections - moonlight off our wing over Moldova |
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| Reflections - sunset over the Siekierkowski bridge across the Vistula River THANKS KAROL |
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| Santorini in the Sea of Crete |
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| The sun trying to get thru over Serbia |
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| Cottonwood Poplar tree seeds covering the city on a windy day |
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| ....when you really do want a hair in your food |
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| Basel city centre and the River Rhine |
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| Landing in Gdansk |
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| Lightning in the distance |
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| Today's aircraft with 100+ year old hangar GREAT PHOTO BY KAROL |
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| All that remained of a Sparrow Hawk that went thru our prop during the landing in Hamburg, Germany |
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| Dawn departure from Konstancin-Jeziorna airstrip, Poland |
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| Dawn departure from Konstancin-Jeziorna airstrip, Poland |
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| Approaching LGKR Kerkyra Corfu, Greece with our Engineer and spare parts for a B737 with a technical problem |
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| Departing LGKR Kerkyra Corfu, Greece having delivered our Engineer and spare parts for the B737 on the apron |
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| The repair must have worked as the B737 passed us over Slovenia beating us back to Warsaw |
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| Another visit to the maintenance base at Konstancin-Jeziorna airstrip, Poland |
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| Turning final at Konstancin-Jeziorna airstrip, Poland |
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| Our landing at Konstancin-Jeziorna was observed from a circling helicopter |
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| Summer scene at Konstancin-Jeziorna |
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| Summer scene at Konstancin-Jeziorna |
Konstancin-Jeziorna
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| Returning from Italy to Poland we stayed [ low ] at 18,000 ft to avoid strong headwinds and got a great view of the Austrian Alps VIDEO |
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| Wet on our return to Warszawa VIDEO |
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| Ending 2020 with a blast from the past - Malawi 32 kg ago |
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| Warsaw EPWA RWY33 in poor visibility after breaking cloud at 200 ft |
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| Alps in the dusk after departing LFSB Basel |
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| Swiss Alps in the last light of the day |
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| Nice to see other traffic over Europe |
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| Ice on the weather radar from the spray off the prop after an approach in icing ...light from my flashlight gives the blue tinge |
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| Propeller spray ice on the winglet melting on the ground in Warsaw |
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| Testing (playing with) the oxygen mask microphone |
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| Accretion on the spinner after an approach in moderate icing |
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| On final approach to runway 30 at ENRY Rygge, Norway |
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| Reflections in Norway |
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| Seen over Warsaw - contrail slicing thru a cloud layer to reveal dark cloud behind |
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| Nearing runway 23 at LFKF Figari on Corsica after a turbulent approach |
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| Picturesque Corsica |
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| Came across this photo of my last flight in M-IRTH, arriving in EGHH Bournemouth in 2017 |
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| Nice to see other traffic over Europe - UPS Boeing 747 over Slovenia |
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| Passenger Briefing during COVID-19 - if I hear you cough I will depressurise the cabin ! |
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| Picturesque Moravská Třebová LKMK airfield in the Czech Republic |
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| A lone poppy holds vigil near the Moravská Třebová airstrip |
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| Fun with the webcam at LKMK Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic ...as seen in the OPS Room in Warsaw |
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| Selfie thru the reflection off the weather radar radome |
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| A superb series of images by photographer Josef at LKMK Moravská Třebová |
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| Landscape reflection off our PC12 captured by photographer Josef at Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic |
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| OPS Room in Warsaw following our taxi to the runway via webcam at LKMK Moravská Třebová |
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| Lifting off from Moravská Třebová ( děkuji fotograf Josef ) |
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| Lifting off from Moravská Třebová ( děkuji fotograf Josef ) |
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| Departing LKMK Moravská Třebová ( děkuji fotograf Josef ) |
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| Localised deluge from a thunderstorm over Warsaw, Poland |
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| Manoeuvring around that thunderstorm on approach to Warsaw |
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| ISS seen from my balcony in a 4 second timelapse compilation as it passes over Warsaw. It was over Kazakhstan when it faded into the Earth's shadow |
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| The River Danube by Nagymaros and Visegrad, Hungary |
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| The Danube and city seen on approach to LHBP Budapest, Hungary |
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| Colourful Budapest |
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| Passing the Nieuwe Meer on approach to EHAM Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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| Short finals for RWY 22 at EHAM Schiphol, Amsterdam |
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| Nice photo by an enthusiast of our landing back in EPWA Warsaw, Poland |
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| Space action over Warszawa - 4 second timelapse over 9 minutes. The bright one is the ISS, followed underneath 50 seconds later by the Japanese HTV-9 unmanned supply ship with a bonus satellite coming from behind the flat |
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| View from the apron in Warsaw - Russian Antonov 124 bringing in supplies from China |
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| An enthusiast got this nice shot of us landing in EPGD Gdansk, Poland |
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| Positioning to the Maintenance Base at Konstancin-Jeziorna : a 6 minute flight from Warsaw along the Vistula River |
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| Crossing the Vistula on finals for the grass airstrip at Konstancin-Jeziorna (visible beside the red dot in the right front windscreen) |
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| Karczew - Konstancin Ferry on the Vistula |
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| Still from a phone video of the landing at the Maintenance Base in Konstancin |
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| The Maintenance Base is entered via a road and the driveway |
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| A tight squeeze into the driveway of the Maintenance Base in Konstancin |
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| Entering the Maintenance Base at Konstancin-Jeziorna |
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| Compilation of multiple photos of the ISS passing below the moon over Warsaw - won 2nd prize in the company photo competition |
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| Spring colours in Warsaw |
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| Sunset reflections at EDDB Berlin Schönefeld, Germany |
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| Aviation reality during the pandemic - the only other traffic we saw during that hour |
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| Wind Farm in the English Channel |
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| Eye catching sandbank in the Thames Estuary |
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| A deserted EHAM Amsterdam Schiphol seen thru the haze in passing from 27,000 ft |
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| An equally hazy and deserted EGLL London Heathrow |
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| Visual approach into EGGD Bristol, UK |
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| Departing EGGD Bristol, UK - parked fleet |
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| Creepy photo of the sun reflecting off an adjacent apartment in Warsaw |
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| EPWA Warsaw, Poland ...parked fleet |
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| EPWA Warsaw - strange feeling being the only aircraft moving |
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| Unusually clear picture of Warsaw city - the company flat is on the bottom left |
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| Super moon rising over Warsaw |
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| "You left your passport WHERE ???" |
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| Hazy but interesting - the River Elbe south of Arneburg which was the border between the old East and West Germanies |
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| East of Berlin ...difficult to see Neuhardenberg Marxwalde Airport surrounded by solar panels |
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| Poznan, Poland seen from 25,000 ft |
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| Europe COVID-19 : what happens when the Air Traffic Controller hears you cough... |
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Taking off from Warsaw EPWA RWY33 on a sunny day
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| COVID-19 : strange to be the only aircraft moving at major airports |
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| COVID-19 : empty skies allow Air Traffic Control to issue long 'Direct To' routings, from the UK coast across 4 countries to the start of the approach in Warsaw - 642 NM is a personal record |
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| Woken up at 3 AM by blinding light and screeching noise as they work on Warsaw's tram rails |
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| Hours later they were still at it ...so I caught the sunrise |
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| COVID-19 : a lone contrail over the Czech Republic, normally one of the busy corridors with traffic to/from the East |
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| What it looked like a few months ago |
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| Turning towards EDDF Frankfurt, Germany |
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| On approach to EDDF Frankfurt - the Rhine |
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| COVID-19 : just a few of Lufthansa's grounded fleet |
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| Dawn arrival delivering crew to LEMG Malaga, Spain |
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| LEMG Malaga - company aircraft departing in the dawn |
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| Departing Malaga - after a few hours sleep |
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| ISS seen from the company flat in Warsaw - 4 second timelapse before it disappeared in earth's shadow |
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| Western Ukraine, south of Lviv enroute to Greece |
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| Catching the last of the sun taxying out at LGSM Samos, Greece |
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| In shadow by the time we lined up for departure at LGSM Samos, with the Turkish mainland close on the horizon |
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| Sunset and windscreen combined over Northern Greece |
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| Venus stayed with us in the Western sky for four hours |
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| Sofia, Bulgaria seen from 28,000 ft |
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| A clear night and RWY33 at EPWA Warsaw |
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| COVID-19 : what has become routine disinfecting between flights |
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| An enthusiast caught us landing last summer |
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| EPWA Warsaw, Poland ...interesting wide angle lens distortion while landing long on Runway 33 (the one on the right) |
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| On descent into London as the sun tries to get through |
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| Landing on RWY11 at EPWA Warsaw in light rain |