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English word of the day: Rooster = Cock The End :) Please leave a comment below! In any language! And check out my previous cartoon: Godzilla Having a Crew Meal! Thanks for reading, -FunkyPilot Vesa My cartoons are created with Microsoft Surface Book 2. You can read my Surface Book 2 product review here: Microsoft Surface Book 2 and Surface Accessory Review (2018) - Laptop for Many Uses
Microsoft Surface Book 2 - 2018 Review So, I purchased myself a new laptop, the Microsoft - 15"model. I bought it to replace my two older laptops; my aging Surface Pro 1 and my 17.3 inch Lenovo Y70 gaming laptop. The Surface Pro was a bit too small for me to be productive and a bit underpowered for any decent gaming. The Lenovo is an excellent and powerful laptop but it doesn't fit my flight bag and it makes my luggage heavier than I like. I was looking for a compromise between these two and the Surface Book 2 has proved to be an excellent replacement. (middle) replacing my Lenovo Y70 (left) and Microsoft Surface Pro 1 (right) laptops. After extensive research I decided to get the . It fits nicely in my flight bag and it is not too heavy to [...]
Trying Something New.. He-he.. how do you like that? I am now back from my "summer break from blogging" and decided to post something different! "Godzilla Having a Crew Meal" is my first digitally drawn cartoon! Hope you like it :) I had a busy few months. Had to focus on studying for my new FAA airline pilot license in May and June, which is why I haven't been posting much on my blog lately. I have also been traveling a lot recently. In fact I added four new countries to my destination page bringing my countries visited to 54. I also upgraded to a Captain in my company recently, which is great! :) Now I can put my focus back to my blog, and I'll try to update it more frequently! About the Cartoon I recently purchased myself a new laptop. It [...]
Taking the Chinese Airline Transport Pilot Knowledge Test Every pilot who wants to fly a Chinese registered aircraft needs to have a pilot license issued by the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC). Until last year I was flying with my CAAC Commercial Pilot License (CPL), but our company required me to get an Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) in order for me to upgrade to a captain. To get the license I had to take a computer based knowledge exam followed by a practical exam at a later date. In this post I will share my experiences studying for the knowledge exam and taking it. I hope other pilots thinking about relocating to China find this post helpful, and I hope other readers find it informative about pilot life. But first, why would pilots from other countries want to come to China? Why Would [...]
Flight Experience 9 - Diamond DA40-180 This is a post about my experiences flying a Diamond Star DA40-180 airplanes in China. I also talk about moving to different cities in China during my first year in the country. My First Job in China When I first moved to China back in 2007 I was hired to fly and teach pilot students in Diamond Star DA40-180 airplanes. They are single engine, four seat, airplanes used by many flight schools for pilot training. It had a 180 horsepower Lycoming gasoline engine. I had never flown this specific aircraft type at the time although I had close to 2000 hours flight experience in similar size airplanes. Getting ready for my first Diamond Aircraft DA40 flight in Shijiazhuang Airport, China. Diamond Star DA40 The major difference with the Diamond Star was that it was the first “glass cockpit” airplane I [...]
Greece Vacation, Part 4 - Costa Navarino, Peloponnese In this post I will introduce our next stop in Peloponnese peninsula in our Greece vacation. Take a look at my previous Greece Vacation posts for the full story if you are planning to visit Athens or somewhere else in Greece. In my previous post I talked about our visit in a beautiful seaside town called Nafplio in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From Nafplio we continued driving to our next destination called Costa Navarino. Driving through Peloponnese With the guidance of my GPS based Sygic Navigation app and Google Maps it was supposed to take us around 2 hours 36 minutes to reach to our destination - Supposed that is; It took us a lot longer. During this leg of our road trip our GPS guidance wasn't very reliable. We took a few wrong turns driving through couple [...]
Flight Experience 8 - Challenger 605 Landing and Taxy in Hangzhou International Airport This two minute video shows a recent landing we had in Hangzhou in a Challenger 605 aircraft. Parts of the video are fast forwarded. After landing you can see the extremely long (fast forwarded) taxy to the other side of the airport! This is my home base airport and we are used to taxiing for miles in here! :) Please, leave a comment below if you like the video! Also take a look at my other videos in my YouTube Channel. Enjoy! Join my Thousands of Twitter followers to see my Daily travel Photos!
Flight Experience 6 - Bombardier Challenger 605 Landing in Sanya, China Just a short video clip of my recent landing in Sanya! Nothing exciting happened, just want to share some approaches and landings in different airports around the world. :) More Similar Posts For more similar posts you might want check out my Flight Experience Page! Or for all aviation posts you should go to my Aviation Page. For all my videos you should check out my YouTube Channel, and don’t forget to subscribe to the channel so you can get update on my new videos!
Flight Experience 7 - Maule M7-235B Super Rocket Seaplane Few weeks before I moved to China in March of 2007 I was still in Florida. I was working as a flight instructor but I also wanted to get one more pilot rating under my belt before leaving the country. Florida is full of flight schools and the weather is normally good for flying all year around. Not only land based aircraft pilots are trained in Florida but there are also several seaplane flight schools. The thought of flying a small seaplane somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness or in the tropics of South America had always exited me. Although the prospects of getting a seaplane job with just the license sounded slim I decided to get the license anyway. Maule M7-235B Super Rocket Amphibian Florida Seaplanes Flight School I was living in [...]
How to Spend a Day in Nafplio, Peloponnese In my Destination Greece: Part 1 and Part 2 I talked about our road trip in Greece I did with my wife in November of 2017. Our choices of destinations were mostly based on my research of best things to do in Greece among other reasons. The trip started from Athens with a short stop in Ancient Corinth, then we continued driving on to Nafplio (also could be written as Nafplion). We decided to visit Nafplio because I found in many travel guides it was one of the top places to visit while in Greece. It was also conveniently located for us on our trip through the Peloponnese peninsula. Nafplio has a long, interesting history, has beautiful scenery, and it used to be the capital of Greece long time ago. Because of my short vacation time and many other places we [...]
