ATC RET 2003
No More Vectors
Queenstown (NZ) ATCT
Queenstown airport, town and lake during departure procedure. We did two climbing 360's before going on course
Someone departing Nadi, Fiji. Not visible in the photo is a large glass of Fiji Bitter next to my left elbow
Nadi. I suppose it's the old control tower
The ride back to Auckland
Perhaps the current Nadi control tower
A non-flightless kiwi. This was our ride to Honolulu
Hickam AFB, final to HNL
The tower and control facility at HNL
View from the walk to the departure gate
The ride to ORD
Aloha, Waikiki and Diamond Head
A pair at O'hare
The Windy City, early a.m.
The other final, ATL... back where it all began
The trip by the numbers:
61 - total days traveling
36 - individual flight segments
31 - different airports
11 - different airlines, not counting subsidiaries
12 - different types of aircraft, not counting different models/series
140 - equivalent number of pieces of checked baggage
0 - pieces of lost/misdirected/delayed luggage
1 - complete lap around the planet