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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. đ Now itâs a very nice place for walking in the nature đ Â
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? đ
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Playa de las Teresitas
El MĂ©dano
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 GĂŒimar 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!
Wanted to share with you a timelapse from one of my latest flights around Tenerife.
It is called Around “Tenerife in 2 minutes”, and actually exactly in 1 minute and 50 seconds we will overfly 170 kms of the coast Tenerife.
Hope youÂŽll enjoy it!
Safe flights!
around tenerife in 2 minutes
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!
Feels like heaven
Feels like heaven
Cloudsurfing.
Cloudsurfing.
Flying makes happy.
Just hanging around…
Anaga
Montaña El Pulpito
Montaña El Pulpito
Final RWY 12
On final RWY 12
Turning on final RWY 12.
Best place to watch the Piper parking is from the wing of Cessna
Chilling on the wing after the flight
Why to become a private pilot? Or why I fly…
I enjoy the views from above, I enjoy to play with the clouds, to surf between the clouds, to feel free, to follow procedures and so on.
The list would be very long.
That’s why I’ve tried to make a compilation of my flights to share with you some of my flying adventures and tell you why I fly and whye it’s worth it to become a private pilot.
I hopy you will enjoy it!
Safe flights!
Stan
Sometimes I have the impression that if I am doing only cross country flights, navigate and do one landing, I am a little loosing the practice of stall recovery, emergency procedures, side slips, short traffic pattern landings, etc… Flying for a hour or two above the sea is sometimes boring, it is mucho more fun to make approaches, take offs, or landings…
So on my last flight last week with Piper P-28A Cherokee Archer ii (reg. EC-JMT),  I have decided to practice stalls, touch and goes and some other manouvers and to have fun.  The weather was perfect, wind calm and it was a very nice experience.  And I feel safer again. I have made a lot of stalls, recovery with or without engine, steep turns and also a zero gravity flight.
One of the landings I wanted to practice was with short traffic pattern, and actually I was lucky, because after take-off there was some traffic that should be departing in the next moments, so I have been cleared for touch and go with short pattern. Descending to the field without flap I have passed a centerline a bit, but finally I have lined up with the runway centerline and touched down. This is the result:
After this take off the ATC has notified 3 planes arriving, so I have proceeded to the visual point November for manouvers. After some manouvers I came back to the airport for more touch and goes. In total I have made 5. My second landing was just a normal approach on the glideslope with 1 point flap.
The third one was planed with side slip. So I have stayed simply to hight on the downwind when turning on base and on final. Side slip consists of crossing the controls, yoke into the wing and the opposite rudder; this causes you drop faster without accelerating the plane. It is not my favourite manouver, since you approach the runway from the side, like with heavy crosswinds. The altimeter was showing a rate of descent of 1.000 feet/minute. Not bad đ Here is the video:
The 4th touch and go was with full flap; I have decided to stay to high again in the pattern, and have performed a full flap landing. You can see it in the video, that I was to high. But with 3.400 meter long runway, there is enough of space to practice đ This is the result:
Of course, normally nobody does this kind of landings with passengers đ Safe landings!
My last flight was a little bit different. I do mostly crosscountry flights, so there is no time to make manouvers like stalls, touch and go’s, etc. Probably the passengers would get scared to death, lol ;-).
This time I have decided to spend the time in the air practicing stalls, turns, touch and go’s, with flaps, without flaps, slips, etc. I was lucky to have a perfect weather, almost no traffic and wind calm, so I was able to enjoy a really nice views and a flight without turbulence.
On the right downwind for RWY 12 at Tenerife North Airport
Flying 1000 feet above the Air Europa Airbus 330, holding short of runway 12
After departure I have proceed to a visual point November and where a bunch of stalls and turns a zero gravity flight was waiting on me. After a coupple of stalls, steap turns, slow flight, etc. I have decided to try again a zer gravity flight. It was a pretty long time ago that I have practiced this.
Holding over November Point, sea calm…
3.000 feet above the sea with fuel pump on I have lowered the nose to pick up the speed to approximately 120-130kts, then started to climb and pulled back down the nose to feel the zero gravity. It worked good out, but my Iphone flew on the backseat so I had to search it, otherwise i wouldn’t be able to make more pictures on this flight.
My second attempt was better: I took a pen, repeated once again the manouver and the pen was floating nice in the air. By the third attempt the pen flew away so there was nothing more to demonstrate the zero gravity. I have captured this with my gopro mounted inside the plane. Actually it was nice to practice this and I liked the feeling in my stomach as well, lol ;-). I think it would have been better to have some passenger on board who would have been busy with the pen while I would be flying đ
After the third one I have retourned back to the airport for more touch and go’s.
It was a nice day full of practice, I am sure I’ll repeat it again… Safe landings!
I have been informed by a friend of my, that the Boeing 787 was due to land at Tenerife South Airport for the first time so I thought it would be better to not to miss it.
I was watching the flight on flightradar24 an was on time near the threshold of the runway 08 at the Tenerife South airport (TFS).
During the final approach the planeÂŽs engine were very silent, it was a realy nice surprise. The weather conditions at the moment of the landing were CAVOK and wind 070/14 kts…
ThomsonÂŽs Boeing 787 Reg. G-TUID
You can see a short video of the first landing at the Tenerife South Airport.
The advantage of a glider is that you can’t experience an engine failure. So it seems, you avoid any bad surprises, and there is no safer way to fly than on a glider.
Flying a single engine airplane gives you the freedom, but there is always a risk of engine failure. In this case your plane turns into a glider with not the best performance, as it is heavier and it has not the same glide ratio as a glider.
Glider “BlanĂk”, reg. OM-2709
In my opinion, having some experience on a glider makes you a safer pilot, in the case you experience some problems with your engine, you are used to handle this situation with less stress (the engine failure is a part of a PPL training as well).
I took a couple of lessons on a glider and I really enjoyed them. This particular flight was made on Blanik, registration OM-2709, and the first difference you note is the silence. There is no engine, so you hear only the air soaring. Second advantage: the views… You feel like a F-16 pilot enjoying the views through the big canopy. đ
The views through the canopy are realy great!
There are some small differences between flying an plane and a glider, if you turn, you have to add some rudder. If you are sitted in the front, and you stall it, it feels different, as the nose is much shorter that in the plane. You also can’t apply the usual throttle, but the recovery is pretty fast.
If the thermal is sufficient, you can stay airborne for hours (in my case there was no thermal, so we went down pretty fast…), so don’t pay the fuel and the flight is cheaper!
Flying a glider, you can enjoy the views like this:
Getting towed into the skies, other BlanĂk in front of us (above the towing aircraft)
Letisko OÄovĂĄ – OÄovĂĄ Airfield
The units of measures are meters instead of feet and km/h instead of knots, but as the numbers serve as a reference, this is not a big problem.
Cockpit of BlanĂk
Here you have a short video as well of soaring in the skies.
Fly with Stan - Sharing (not only my) flying experiences... 