I've finally started my long awaited vacation.
A whole week off from work and my family have arrived
Naples. It's not easy to get time off here, and
I was lucky to get some time off as it is getting
rather busy here.
Last Tuesday (22 June) we were out celebrating.
Alot to celebrate: 21 June, my birthday and Anders
last day at work, 22 June, Bernts 21st birthday.
We started it off with dinner at Olive Garden and
moved on down to downtown where we stayed to they
closed up for the night. We don't really have alot
of opportunities to go out and have fun, cause we
have to be at work every day at 0800, but we managed
to get time off till 1200 which left us with more
options.
Thursday I went on an IFR cross country to Miami
and Key West with Bruno who is doing his instrument
rating at the moment. Miami International is a rather
big airport with 3 parallel runways and one intersecting.
In Miami we went to the FSDO to convert his Croatian
license to an American one. Of course we showed
up in the middle of their lunchbreak, so we had
to hang around for a while.
Right after take off from Miami I heard my family's
plane get it's landing clearance from tower. Funny
coincidence that we happened to be there at the
same time. The flew in with an A330 MyTravel direct
from Oslo. I quickly understood that it was the
right plane, cause the callsign was "Viking"
and the pilot had a Danish accent.
From Miami we flew down to Key West where we went
on a short trip downtown before heading back to
Naples. I was a bit eager to get home to see my
family, but it turned out that they had problems
with both getting their rentalcar and getting out
of the traffic jam out of Miami, so they got in
a little late.
As I mentioned July is supposed to be rather busy,
which is good. Alot of students means alot of time
in the air. I have two students starting next week
and two starting the following week. Other than
that, I have Bruno full time and a couple of guys
part time. Charles went home yesterday after passing
his checkride on Friday.
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Approaching Miami Intl. We came in parallel with a
Continental 757.
Right after take off from rwy 12. The runway under
the wing is where my family landed minutes after.
The sunsets here can be rather impressing, but can
be difficult to capture. This one however came out
pretty well.
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