TurdBird
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:laff: That might be the best one yet. Ahahaha
What have you seen from "up there"
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Soku39
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Well in NE Ohio we can often go days and weeks with out seeing the sun. That being said there's nothing like filing for 9,000 breaking through, and there it is in all its glory, take a couple pics to make everyone down below jealous when you land. So not all that exciting but damn the sun is pretty when it's been gone for a week.
Mr.Maximus
New Member
The Leonid Meteor Shower while crossing the Atlantic
The Aurora Borealis
St. Elmo's Fire
Climbing through an ultra thin cirrus layer and the ice crystals
reflecting the full visible color spectrum like a billion diamonds
The incredible colors of the ocean around the Bahamas and VI's -
going from the deep purple where its super deep to white on the
beaches with every shade of blue in between.
Seeing a vivid triple rainbow
The beauty and power of a space shuttle launch from the air is
amazing.
Clouds are always great - they never cease in pleasing one's visual
senses.
Mt. Rainier on the CHINS5
Water spouts
Sunsets
Sunrises (although I do my best to miss these - too dang early)
And best of all: The ear to ear #### eatin' grin on my 3 year old sons
face every time he and I slip the bonds of terra firma
together.
Max
The Aurora Borealis
St. Elmo's Fire
Climbing through an ultra thin cirrus layer and the ice crystals
reflecting the full visible color spectrum like a billion diamonds
The incredible colors of the ocean around the Bahamas and VI's -
going from the deep purple where its super deep to white on the
beaches with every shade of blue in between.
Seeing a vivid triple rainbow
The beauty and power of a space shuttle launch from the air is
amazing.
Clouds are always great - they never cease in pleasing one's visual
senses.
Mt. Rainier on the CHINS5
Water spouts
Sunsets
Sunrises (although I do my best to miss these - too dang early)
And best of all: The ear to ear #### eatin' grin on my 3 year old sons
face every time he and I slip the bonds of terra firma
together.
Max
Rocketman99
Frozen Guppy Manipulator
I've seen/done most of those. God I miss Alaska. Been 3 years now since I was last up there.
ctab5060X
Well-Known Member
When I flew mosquito control airplanes for a living...
-Fireworks exploding in front of the airplane at 300ft AGL.
-Multiple July 4th fireworks shows. Even had to pull off a town one night from spraying to wait and watch. Awesome view.
-Closing fireworks at Disney.
-Snow covered Tetons in Wyoming during June.
-Hurricane destruction behind Charley, Francis, Jean, Katrina and Rita. Same areas at night. Some areas were totally dark.
-The runway lights of your base airport at dawn when you have been flying all night.
-Fog rolling onto the airport from the opposite direction as you are flaring to land.
-Sunrises over the Atlantic.
-Sunsets over the Pacific.
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-Lightning, both near and far.
-Approach lights after an ILS when you have had a rough night.
-Full lunar eclipse, from start to well past peak
-Numerous meteor showers
-Seeing both the sun and moon rise and set.
I also had the opportunity to fly the night that the moon was so close several years back. I managed to be home at the time and it was absolutely amazing what you could see as compared to a normal full moon. It was almost like flying in daylight.
E_Dawg
Moderator
I'm mesmerized by the view every time I fly.
Taking off before sunrise and watching the sun come up on climbout is one of the best views you can imagine. Especially over the Canadian Rockies.
St. Elmo's fire is cool, watching it dance around on the windshield.
The Northern Lights are beautiful, I've only seen them while riding as a non-rev out to Amsterdam.
I can't believe how fast these things go, and how in a single flight I can do something that 100yrs ago would have taken months.
Taking off before sunrise and watching the sun come up on climbout is one of the best views you can imagine. Especially over the Canadian Rockies.
St. Elmo's fire is cool, watching it dance around on the windshield.
The Northern Lights are beautiful, I've only seen them while riding as a non-rev out to Amsterdam.
I can't believe how fast these things go, and how in a single flight I can do something that 100yrs ago would have taken months.
CFII Kush
New Member
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A bunch of great sights, one I caught on film though... Cleared over Yankee Stadium, a rare feat in New York's wild airspace. My camera overexposed it though.
Just ask for the New York Cab Transition (or ny city tour) from new york approach... up the Hudson, over Central Park, over LGA... enroute... sometimes you'll get cleared over the stadium, lady liberty, or even once... right up broadway.
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Central Park, Lady Liberty, and Donald Trump's plane taxiing at LGA
A bunch of great sights, one I caught on film though... Cleared over Yankee Stadium, a rare feat in New York's wild airspace. My camera overexposed it though.
Just ask for the New York Cab Transition (or ny city tour) from new york approach... up the Hudson, over Central Park, over LGA... enroute... sometimes you'll get cleared over the stadium, lady liberty, or even once... right up broadway.
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Central Park, Lady Liberty, and Donald Trump's plane taxiing at LGA
falconvalley
Absentee Dad of the OOTSK, Runner, Cat Frustrator
Lots of cool things to see out there!
One of the things I never get sick of is breaking through the overcast layer on an AM flight, when it's still dark on departure, but as soon as you break through, there's the sun. If I'm still a little groggy, that wakes me up better than coffee.
My favorites in the past (not all from "up there" but some still pretty cool):
Watching a landing at Hickam and going over Pearl Harbor, all from a boom pod.
Right traffic into Guam. That was really neat.
Being right over KJFK at 8,000 in a Cardinal ('99).
Low level departure out of Washington Island in Wisconsin.
Getting shined by rogue deer hunters near Lake Winnebago, when I was tooling around at night in my 152.
My first solo x/c's on the Delmarva Penninsula.
Landing on a completely snow covered runway in Escanaba, at 11PM on a cold, cold night with 3 pax in the back.
Watching an Airbus fly right over me at 10 miles out on an approach into O'Hare.
Seeing "Cherries and Berries" from the air.
The first time I ever saw another airplane in the air while I was in the practice area during my first few flying lessons. Apparently, it was a Skyway Beech 1900 on their own training flight. Little did I know that someday I would be flying it. My instructor was married to the instructor on the 1900. Coincidence?
Anytime a plane overtakes me from 1000 feet above.
Watching your typical, everyday, red party balloon pass by at 17,000 ft.
Nearly having a birdstrike on my first solo (well not favorite but unforgettable).
Handing the controls over to my dad, who is also a pilot, at 6,000 on the way to KMSP. It was really weird seeing him fly after years of bugging him about flying.
Giving my dad a simulated engine failure on a checkout~ "Come-on, TRAV!!!"
Ok, I could go on and on and go way off topic, but I'll stop there.
One of the things I never get sick of is breaking through the overcast layer on an AM flight, when it's still dark on departure, but as soon as you break through, there's the sun. If I'm still a little groggy, that wakes me up better than coffee.
My favorites in the past (not all from "up there" but some still pretty cool):
Watching a landing at Hickam and going over Pearl Harbor, all from a boom pod.
Right traffic into Guam. That was really neat.
Being right over KJFK at 8,000 in a Cardinal ('99).
Low level departure out of Washington Island in Wisconsin.
Getting shined by rogue deer hunters near Lake Winnebago, when I was tooling around at night in my 152.
My first solo x/c's on the Delmarva Penninsula.
Landing on a completely snow covered runway in Escanaba, at 11PM on a cold, cold night with 3 pax in the back.
Watching an Airbus fly right over me at 10 miles out on an approach into O'Hare.
Seeing "Cherries and Berries" from the air.
The first time I ever saw another airplane in the air while I was in the practice area during my first few flying lessons. Apparently, it was a Skyway Beech 1900 on their own training flight. Little did I know that someday I would be flying it. My instructor was married to the instructor on the 1900. Coincidence?
Anytime a plane overtakes me from 1000 feet above.
Watching your typical, everyday, red party balloon pass by at 17,000 ft.
Nearly having a birdstrike on my first solo (well not favorite but unforgettable).
Handing the controls over to my dad, who is also a pilot, at 6,000 on the way to KMSP. It was really weird seeing him fly after years of bugging him about flying.
Giving my dad a simulated engine failure on a checkout~ "Come-on, TRAV!!!"
Ok, I could go on and on and go way off topic, but I'll stop there.
cmsuav8r
Well-Known Member
I didn't see it, but I participated in it. At a flight team practice last year we had a team member that kept coming in high, so the next time around the 7 of us that were on the ground mooned him to make sure he saw the "vasi" lol.
aerospacepilot
New Member
My two personal favorites:
1. Golden Gate Bridge with a backdrop of the city of San Francisco on a warm/clear summer day.
2. Soaring over the Flatirons in Boulder, CO, with a view back into the snow capped, 14,000ft + high Rocky Mountains on a warm fall day.
Pictures on request (SF Bay Tour is in my signature, would have to upload Rocky Mountain photos)
1. Golden Gate Bridge with a backdrop of the city of San Francisco on a warm/clear summer day.
2. Soaring over the Flatirons in Boulder, CO, with a view back into the snow capped, 14,000ft + high Rocky Mountains on a warm fall day.
Pictures on request (SF Bay Tour is in my signature, would have to upload Rocky Mountain photos)
DeltaAVL
New Member
Hi guys, this is my first post here, and let me say that I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the site and the forums. Some very interesting material!
While nothing as spectacular as what you guys are describing, I've taken a few photographs while flying (not PIC) around the mountains of Western North Carolina:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1194436/L/
Flying over downtown Asheville:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/future787pilot/Asheville.jpg
Final approach to Hendersonville:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1046520/L/
Flying REALLY low over an apple farm:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/future787pilot/N9220AwjmossINFLIGHT5.jpg
ASA ATR, AVL-ATL (this was on Christmas day - a wonderful flight):
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1171510/L/
CO 735, IAD-MEX
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/future787pilot/mexico_wing.jpg
Hope you enjoyed the photos.
While nothing as spectacular as what you guys are describing, I've taken a few photographs while flying (not PIC) around the mountains of Western North Carolina:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1194436/L/
Flying over downtown Asheville:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/future787pilot/Asheville.jpg
Final approach to Hendersonville:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1046520/L/
Flying REALLY low over an apple farm:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/future787pilot/N9220AwjmossINFLIGHT5.jpg
ASA ATR, AVL-ATL (this was on Christmas day - a wonderful flight):
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1171510/L/
CO 735, IAD-MEX
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/future787pilot/mexico_wing.jpg
Hope you enjoyed the photos.
Could it have been in Ohio? It looks like its the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty Ohio:
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.304008&lon=-83.548622&z=14&l=0&m=a&v=2
http://www.trcpg.com/
As for me (in my 2.4 hours of flight time) I have seen Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant and a quarry. What they extract at the quarry I do not know.
jrh
Well-Known Member
Yep, that's it! Very impressive facility...
And of course it was Ohio, now that I think about it. I was flying from Pennsylvania to Illinois that day and all the states sort of blended together in my memory.
