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September started with pretty good views; almost blue skies and good visibility.
Here comes one shot from today’s flight around La Gomera with Tenerife’s Teide in the background.
Quite impressive today, when 5 islands could have been seen: Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma, El Hierro and on our way back Gran Canaria as well.
By the way. This is the post number 100 on my blog :-D.
Safe flying!
It’s been a while since my last post… In the coming weeks I’ll post some updates about the news from the last months… 🙂
If you ever wondered what the expression “Death Grip” means, here is the visual answer for this :-). When I took this image, this expression just came through my mind, so here it comes!
However, in aviation this means that the pilot is squeezing the yoke very hard while flying the airplane. This happens to a lots of pilots, especially when you fly a plane for the first time, or you don’t feel very comfortable.
Happy Halloween everyone!
Not every day you get chased by a shadow and not every day it tries to shoot at you… Definitely not a picture you can take every day 😀
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
Yes. When you are in the right place at the right time… Even if you pass along the same place 2 or 3 times, the view will never be the same.
Once you’ll find clear blue skies, the other time a bunch of clouds…
Evening the sun illuminates the countryside on a different way and so was it in this case.
When just passing ‘around the corner’ above the most westerly situated point of the island called ‘Punta de Teno’ I was lucky enough to capture and immortalize this moment with my iPhone…
A bit of editing and voilà… Now I can share it with the whole world, instead of trying to explain by words what I’ve seen on that particular moment… One image is worth a thousand words, isn’t it?😍😍😅🙏🏻
Yes! This was my second helicopter flight ever… The first one was back in 2001 in Fuerteventura, the second one (and hopefully not the last one 🙂 ) now in Tenerife.
I was wishing to repeat this experience since a long time and finaly, now in the summer time, the right moment came to take off up into the skies as a passenger and to enjoy the views and the ride.
The only company offering helicopter scenic flights in Tenerife is Helidream, from their heliport in Costa Adeje (ICAO code GCAD), operating a Bell 206 Ranger (reg. EC-LYP). There are different routes available; from 15 minutes local flight up to 1 hour island trip, or charter flights and much more…
I chose the longest option; to do it right, sit back, not to fly, look around, enjoy the views and to take pictures.
After a short passenger safety briefing we were ready to go.
Helidream’s Bell 206 Ranger
We had again (as on all my helicopter flights till now, lol) good weather conditions and the wind was calm, so we had a very nice ride with no turbulence.
I’ve flown a lots of times around Tenerife, but none of those flight were identical, and so was it also in this case.
Pilot’s views from the helicopter
The helicopter was maintaining lower altitude, which offers a closer look on what’s going under us. I’ve seen places that I haven’t seen before. Just because my PA28 has wings and you can’t look under the plane. When I was flying the Cessna, I could also see much better below us.
I definitely enjoyed the heli experience and I think at some point I should try to take a flight lesson in the future to taste how it flies….
Enjoy some of the pictures taken during the flight; as always it’s hard to choose only a few of them.
Safe flights! 🙂
Los Cristianos as seen from the helicopter
Flying above the north part of the island
Selfie with Pico del Teide 🙂
Pico del Teide & the sea of clouds
Playa del Duque, Costa Adeje
Pico del Teide…
Flying westbound
Playa de Fañabé, Tenerife
Santiago del Teide
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
A short video o how Playa de las Américas looks like from the air.
Enjoy it!
Flying over Playa de las Américas from The Piper Pilot on Vimeo.
Sad end for the Piper, but a lucky end for the occupants.
This plane (Piper PA28, EC-DSD) crashed in January 2009 while attempting to cross the mountain “Montaña de la Crucita” (6.761ft high) during VFR flight into IMC conditions resulting in an impact in the mountain at 5.700 feet, just 1.000 feet bellow its top.
Plane’s route
The 3 occupants were injured and were rescued by the helicopter of the Guardia Civil. There were no fatalities.
Wreckage of the EC-DSD.
The slop of the mountain.
Wreckage of the EC-DSD.
Wreckage of the EC-DSD.
The plane seems to be moved from its initial position and most of the parts are already missing.
The plane seems to be moved from its initial position
The crash site is only 1 km from the road, but the access is difficult. On the images you can see the slope of the mountain and the surroundings; I´ve attached the plane´s route as well.
You can park your car at the Mirador de la Crucita and start walking from there:
Source: Ministerio de Fomento/Spanish Ministry of Development.
On the 22nd of march 2019 the plane was transported by a helicopter to a scrap yard, where it will be scrapped by a company Rimetal. This was her final flight after 10 years on the mountain.
Safe flying everyone!
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