The Bahamas enroute to Havana, Cuba.
Grand Cloud Canyon over the Atlantic Ocean.
To the left of the cockpit window separation: the high-rise buildings of The Hague. Immediately to the right of the cockpit window separation: the Pier of Scheveningen, further to the right the entrance to the harbor of Scheveningen and visible in the far right: Hoek van Holland and the Rotterdam Maasvlakte.
Always a surreal sight: gigantic green spray fields in the middle of the desolate, bone-dry Sahara Desert of Libya.
The beautiful Italian island of Sardinia on an early summer morning at sunrise in early August, in the descent to Olbia airport.
Amsterdam on a sunny Sunday morning.
Amsterdam, with a departing cruise ship on the IJ.
Landing in Aruba.
Amsterdam, cruise ship cruising along Java Island.
Taxiing across Aruba airport for departure to Bonaire, as the sun slowly sinks into the Caribbean Sea.
Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport, always hectic because it’s the busiest airport in the world.
Atlanta.
Atlanta with a traffic jam on the highway towards Downtown.
Typical American neighborhood in Atlanta.
Towering cumulus cloud with halo over Africa on our way to Kigali, Rwanda.
Lufthansa Boeing 747 goes overhead.
Cloud busting: windmills popping through the ground fog.
Colleague Boeing 747 departing in a northerly direction from the Polderbaan at Schiphol for a long journey.
Festive first flight of the summer season from Dallas, Texas: Waved goodbye by the entire airport handling staff plus a special delegation.
Traditional salut on celebratory flights by the Dallas, Texas Airport Fire Department. First flight of the summer season and the appreciation of the very friendly Americans is always high.
Sunrise over Greenland during the flight Calgary - Amsterdam.
Sunrise over Greenland during the flight Calgary - Amsterdam.
Amsterdam behind the breaking sunlight.
The Amstel through Amsterdam.
Amsterdam Business Center: The Zuidas.
The Amsterdamse Bos with the rowing course below; the Bosbaan.
South of the winding Rhine: Düsseldorf Airport. North of it: the Ruhr area with large industrial waste clouds, as if it were tornadoes.
‘Tornadoes’.
Entering Africa: via the Egyptian north coast from the Mediterranean Sea.
Giant Cumulonimbus cloud, typical of Africa's weather.
Tropical islands on the way to Havana.
Paradise Atoll of Coral in the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Havana.
Florida Keys.
Close flying Boeing 747 ('Jumbo'). The vertical separation is always at least 1,000 feet (= more than 300 meters).
London Heathrow beautifully visible from a great height on the way to Bonaire from Amsterdam.
The island of Malta 'on the nose' enroute to the South of Africa.
Manhattan with Times Square at its brightest colored lights.
Manhattan, New York City, with Times Square at its brightest, on the way home from Atlanta.
Manhattan with Times Square in the brightest colored lights and the perfectly visible dead straight 'Streets' that divide the city horizontally. Above (the dark part) the Hudson River.
Always beautiful 'real flying' on the Greek islands: visual approach on the Greek island of Rhodes, as every student pilot learns at the start of the practical part of the flight training, but now with a much larger airplane:)
Near San Francisco.
Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco.
San Francisco with on top, just right of the center: Alcatraz (the small island).
Fine Arts Museum San Francisco.
Airbus A380 of Lufthansa 'final' for one of the parallel runways of San Francisco airport.
Colorful environment of San Francisco city.
Beautiful spectacle due to the interplay of characteristic cumulus clouds and colorful ground scenes in the environment of San Francisco city.
Forest fire just outside San Francisco while climbing for the return flight to Amsterdam.
The gigantic sweeping fanning of smoke, like an encompassing cloud cover, caused by a single wildfire just outside San Francisco.
In-between cloud layers during the descent while enjoying the sunrise.
Spotters spotted: the roles are reversed at Schiphol.
Stone Mountain Park, Atlanta, Georgia.
Challenging: coming home while a southwestern storm rages over the Netherlands.
Surfing the clouds for a while and then slowly dive into the clouds during the descent.
Passing below us on a flight to Toronto: a United Airlines Boeing 757.
Passing below us on a flight to Toronto: a United Airlines Boeing 757
Beautiful palette of autumn colors: Indian Summer in Toronto.
Toronto and the famous CN Tower.
Azure lakes near Vancouver.
Mighty icebergs with equally impressive shadows: Greenland enroute to Vancouver.
Foreboding sight: Thunderstorms approaching Vancouver airport. Fortunately, we left the other way back to Amsterdam.
Vancouver: metropolis on the water, at the foot of mighty mountains.
Mighty icebergs from Greenland enroute to Vancouver.
Mighty icebergs from Greenland enroute to Vancouver.
Mighty icebergs from Greenland enroute to Vancouver.
Rain shower like a smoke screen, next to Vancouver airport.
Fairytale spectacle: vertigo effect on the edge of Greenland with a low moon on top, just above the horizon.
Wait a few minutes for a heavy predecessor's wake to clear, to avoid wake turbulence. Departure from runway 24 Schiphol (the Kaagbaan).
Cheerful view from the air: spring in the Netherlands!
Colleague of Continental Airlines above the winglet.
Rich in contrast: coming home from tropical Africa at dawn over a wintry Netherlands in mid-December. In the photo a frozen Noordoostpolder with the Ketelbrug on the left.
