Aviation

What could be nicer than flying along Manhattan, what is more challenging than learning to fly in one of the busiest airspaces worldwide: New York?

Here are some pictures about flying in New York and the Bahamas.

Videos

Links to flight videos of my friends Stefan, Rainer and me:

Stefan landing in Connecticut (watch the eyebrow!) 11/2002: Youtube

Stefan’s Night Landing FRG 11/02 Youtube

My first landings in Morristown, NJ (January, 19th 2003):
Rainer was courageous enough to sit in the back and to tape them. Very amusing, especially the rough landing #2! To see the videos double-click on the Icon

Landing Morristown, NJ #1 01/19/03 Youtube
#2 (quite rough) 01/19/03 Youtube
#3 01/19/03 Youtube
Landing back in Teterboro, NJ 01/19/03 Youtube
Landing in Caldwell, NJ 02/08/03 You-tube

Harbor Island, Bahamas

Stefan joined us with a Piper Warrior in the Bahamas! The trip took him three and a half days from New York. Rainer, Uschi and I made a trip around ‘the Cays’ and flew to Norman’s Kay (place where Carlos Lehder, accomplice of Pablo Escobar, had his hide-out for a while). Very little Island, a short and relatively narrow runway but very impressive! See also at the Picture section!

Arrival Stefan on April, 15th in North Eleuthera, BahamasYoutube
Rainer flying along the East Shore of Harbor Island 04/16/03 Youtube
Landing in Norman’s Kay, April,16th 2003 Youtube
Flying along Harbor Island, Hanne and Petra waving on the beach! 04/16/03 Youtube
Landing back in North Eleuthera 04/16/03 Youtube

On the way to the License

And then there was the day: May, 18th 2003: My first cross country solo flight with a Cessna Skyhawk N54838 from Teterboro, New Jersey to Sullivan County International in Upstate New York!
My friends Rainer, Stefan and Miriam surprised me there and took these takes – Two calls and two pics:

Entering the traffic pattern – the call
Turning final – the call
The landing Youtube
Exiting the plane Youtube

June, 2nd 2003: Returning to Teterboro, New Jersey with the Cessna Skyhawk N98786 from my night cross country flight :Landing TEB, runway 24 Youtube

Check Ride

After quite a while (64.2 hrs flight time 134 t/o and landings in 13 month) I made my check ride in Teterboro, New Jersey on June, 8th 2003.

After my check ride for the Private Pilot License here is my ‘Maiden Flight’ with Petra as my first passenger and the third flight with Stefan (© Rainer Fehringer):

First Flight with Petra entering the East River in Brooklyn: Youtube

On a more somber note

One plane I flew in my flying school was a relativelz new Cessna 172. I enjoyed buyying around with it a couple of time around Manhattan, but one year later it crashed on Coney Island. Here is the story as I experienced it.

Different kinds of Flying

…and finally to set it into the right proportion:
A very nice way to handle it: Youtube

Rainer exercising his other Flying Sport: Kite Surfing in Harbor Island: Youtube

And last, but not least: Leonard flying his self-financed drone in Bremen, next to the Soccer Stadium of Werder Bremen: Youtube.

Still love it going up, once in a while with my friend Sven in Bremen, Germany for spin with his Cirrus SR22.