Definitely one of the most beautiful terminal buildings in the Canaries; with it’s balconies in Canaria style. Beautiful architecture.
Just take a look…

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First time that I was able to fly over the volcano at La Palma after a long time.
Even if the volcano is not active anymore, it still looks pretty hot.
Difficult to find the words to describe this…
Something we really don’t see every day. Let’s hope it’ll sleep again for a long long time…
First, what is actually calima. Calima is (mostly) hot, dust and sand laden wind blowing from Sahara from easterly direction. This wind causes a lot of respiratory problems, brings dust, the visibility drops and sometimes this causes problems in the aviation (like in the year 2020, when the airports around the islands had to be closed during several days).
I was flying today (again) around Tenerife and as we wanted to stay above this calima layer and get some better visibility, we have climbed up to 6.500 feet where we broke out of the sand and were flying above it in the nice, clean air…
You can see it in the next photographs.
All the best, and stay safe!
Flying at sunset is magic. The almost setting sun illuminates the landscape at a different angle, and makes it unique.
Here are some images of Tenerife made just couple of moments before sunset.
I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I’ve enjoyed the views when they were taken.
Safe flights and happy landings!
Stan
MCC stands for multiple crew cooperation. This additional training is required to fly in a multipilot aircraft with crew consisting of at least 2 members.
And as the initial idea is to fly a plane consisting of 2 pilots, I had to go through this training as well… So let’s get back to school.
Starting my MCC course at GTA Madrid
I did my training at Global Aviation Training in Madrid, and my colleague and me, we were very satisfied with the high level of the training. Our instructors were highly experienced and active pilots with more than 15 years of flying experience.
In total we spent 10 days at GTA; 5 days of theoretical classes and 5 days simulator sessions in the ATR72-500. During the first 5 days we learned a lot about the ATR72-500 systems and procedures, and started to learn to work not as a single pilot, but in a team of two.
At the beginning a bit challenging, because we faced a new plane, procedures and new way of dividing tasks as a team, but it was improving with the time.
This is where it all started… ATR72-500 cockpit mock-up
Finally, after 5 days of classes, there was this “magical” moment of getting into “the pleasure room” that we were so much looking for. For the most pilots are these “dancing boxes” a real headache, because they stand there not for having fun in them, but to prove that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and you will have to face it.
The pleasure room
And this one was ours… ATR72-500 (Pitty that it wouldn’t fix in my garage lol)
ATR72-500 FFS at GTA Madrid
The cockpit is identical with a real plane:
500 FFS
One of the highlights was a simulation of an emergency descent after a cabin decompression, using oxygen masks. I have to say, something I haven’t done before; and definitely very interesting.
After an emergency descent drill…
After 10 days of hard work and studying, we are done! 😀
MCC Course done!
In the free time, we have also visited the other 2 simulators; which are new and have a far better visual graphics (however it doesn’ matter, because most of the time we were flying in IMC conditions with no views…). In addition to the FFS ATR72-600 and Boeing 737NG, there is another FNPT II simulator of an Airbus A320. Of course, I had to capture these moments:
And it was a pitty that it didn’t work out to try the slide of the A320. Maybe for the next time!
Safe landings! 😀
Emergency slide A320
View at Arenas Negras ( last eruption 1706).
Behind it, you can see volcano Chinyero. At this place, in 1909 the last registered eruption in Tenerife took place. 🌋 Now it’s a very nice place for walking in the nature 😅
Volcan Chinyero Tenerife
I have made lots of aerial images of Tenerife. Now I made a small selection of some of my favorites and share them with you. Which one is your favorite? 🙂
No caption needed
Playa de las Teresitas
El Médano
Playa de las vistas
Roque Tierra, Anaga
Pico del Teide & The sea of clouds
Gopro Mounted on the vertical stab
Snowed Mt. Teide
Somewhere over La Victoria, North Tenerife
Tenerife North (GCXO/TFN) airport from the air
The Vulcano at Güimar valley
Costa los Gigantes from the air
Pico del Teide & Costa Los Gigantes
Anaga
Montaña El Pulpito
Above Anaga
Above Anaga
Above Anaga
Mt. Teide
Mt. Teide above the clouds
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Snowy MT. Teide
Snowy MT. Teide
Well. I have decided to my make my second compilation of my flights. As I’ve found music that I loved, and thought it would be great in the video, I started to edit it, and here it is: my second compilation: Up in the air.
I hope you’ll enjoy it! I would be thankful for any good ideas (or send me a link of yours if you have one…).
Safe flying!
I went out for some touch and goes with the Cessna. It was fun. Practicing engine failures in the cirquit, full flap, flap zero…
And after a short flight above Anaga mountains, above the clouds, feeling like in the heaven…
The Cessna is pretty photogenic, so my Gopro’s have taken louds of great pictures which I am happy to share with you now.
There was even a Nikon camera on board, so even more nice pictures could have been taken…
Safe landings!