Saturday, September 1, 2007

Flying....

Well, I'm on the other side of the pond now :)
I left for Atlanta on Wednesday and stayed at my grandparent's house for the night. I got up around 9 and then left at around 10 for ATL Airport. The goodbye to everyone, especially with my mom, was hard but I know I'll see them sooner than later. A year a is a long time, but I'm up for the adventure and am curious as to what God has in store for me for this year (and the rest of my life, of course). Anyway, back to the happenings...I left ATL on the plane that was taking me up to Washington D.C. around 13:10 and I got to Dulles Airport (that's the D.C. airport's name) about one hour and fifteen minutes later. The tailwind that we were experiencing cut quite a chunk of time out of the flight which is nice. The landing into D.C. was ridiculous. There was either some turbulence that we couldn't feel, or the pilot just didn't have his junk together cause we hit the ground hard, quite hard. Anyway, no harm done, no backs broken :). I had about a two and a half hour layover and finally boarded the SAS flight that would take me to Copenhagen, DK. I was very pleased when I sat down and saw that even the economy class passengers had their own personal entertainment systems so they could do what they wanted.



It is not an Apple marvel of interface but it's much better than you usually will see in the economy class isles. Gotta love those Scandinavians and their heightened sense of standard of living (flying). I arrived in Copenhagen in great time. The flight took about half an hour less than expected. Average ground speed during the trip was around 600mph (960kph, gotta start thinking like a European again :)) Well, I'll let you guys know how it is once I meet everyone and get on site.

1 comment:

NahumCC said...

Hey Leo, a tip for you. My dad being a former Navy pilot explained to a friend you can almost always tell when the pilot of your airliner is a former military pilot. An Air Force pilot will glide in and take the whole run way to land and stop the plane. A Navy pilot however being trained to land on a carrier deck in a very short space will drop the plane on the deck hard at the very beggining of the run way and stick it right then and there slamming on the breaks. My guess is you had a Navy pilot.