Heading southeast, but looking southwest, towards the setting sun, somewhere over the eastern Mediterranean Sea
Heading southeast, but looking southwest, towards the setting sun, somewhere over the eastern Mediterranean Sea
Off the coast of India, fishing boats, using bright green lights to attract and catch squid
Cirrus clouds over Texas
A twin overtaking us, contrails illuminated by strobe lights
A lake in Anatolia, Turkey, at full moon
Caucasus mountains in southwestern Georgia, just north of the Turkish border
The North Sea has changed
A quiet pre-dawn over the North Atlantic
West of Thule, Greenland, the ocean was still frozen in June
Information at your fingertips, reviewing NOTAMS on the EFB
Crimea's airspace is closed since 2014 and therefore marked red. We are close to its corner, about to switch from Istanbul to Ankara Control
Since 2016 or so, paper flight plans are gone. But on this flight back from Washington DC, we received a re-route via good-old ACARS and placed the printout on the still-existing clipboard
Coming back from Nanjing, now over northern Russia, overtaking the sun, it is slowly rising in the west
Two hours later, close to Arkhangelsk, blinded by the sun. As we reduce our latitude, the sun will become faster than us, setting again in the west, the way it always should.