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Flight Experience 9 – Flying Over Gobi Desert – Flight of the Phoenix Style!
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Flight Experience 9 – Flying Over Gobi Desert – Flight of the Phoenix Style!
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Flight Experience 9 – Flying Over Gobi Desert – Flight of the Phoenix Style!

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-03-17T09:50:02+08:00March 16th, 2018|Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training, My Story|

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 [...]

Flight Experience 8 – Challenger 605 Landing and Taxy in Hangzhou, China – Video
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Flight Experience 8 – Challenger 605 Landing and Taxy in Hangzhou, China – Video
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Flight Experience 8 – Challenger 605 Landing and Taxy in Hangzhou, China – Video

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-02-26T18:50:44+08:00February 25th, 2018|Aviation, Flight Experience|

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 – Video Blog
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Flight Experience 6 – Bombardier Challenger 605 Landing in Sanya, China – Video Blog
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Flight Experience 6 – Bombardier Challenger 605 Landing in Sanya, China – Video Blog

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-02-19T14:26:18+08:00February 15th, 2018|Aviation, Flight Experience|

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 – Look at ’em Puppies! – Ready for a Seaplane Flight?!?
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Flight Experience 7 – Look at ’em Puppies! – Ready for a Seaplane Flight?!?
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Flight Experience 7 – Look at ’em Puppies! – Ready for a Seaplane Flight?!?

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-02-19T20:18:38+08:00February 15th, 2018|Aircraft, Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training|

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 [...]

Flight Experience 5.1 – Spinning a Diamond DA20 in China – Video Blog
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Flight Experience 5.1 – Spinning a Diamond DA20 in China – Video Blog
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Flight Experience 5.1 – Spinning a Diamond DA20 in China – Video Blog

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-02-15T14:31:34+08:00January 28th, 2018|Aircraft, Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training|

Spinning a Diamond DA20 Aircraft Short video of spin flight training in a Diamond DA20 Aircraft in Chaoyang, China. For more information about spin training check out my related post: Aircraft Experience 5.0 - Spinning Diamonds. If the video doesn’t work in China you can see it in YouKu at Spinning a Diamond DA20.

Flight Experience 5.0 – Spinning Diamonds
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Flight Experience 5.0 – Spinning Diamonds
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Flight Experience 5.0 – Spinning Diamonds

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-03-02T17:10:44+08:00January 27th, 2018|Aircraft, Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training|

Flight Experience 5 - Diamond DA20 I first flew the Austrian designed, Canadian built, two-seat Diamond DA20 aircraft in Florida back in 2001. The DA20-A1 models back then were also called Diamond "Katana's". That time I used it for teaching private pilot students and I flew the plane for about 100 hours. Next time I had an opportunity fly the aircraft was ten years later in 2011. At the time I was living in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China. The DA20's we had in China where slightly improved DA20-C1 models that had dropped the Katana designation. For now on I will just refer the aircraft as Diamond DA20's. Chaoyang, Liaoning Province. About 500 km northeast of Beijing, and about the same distance to North Korea. Working as a CFI I was working as the Chief Flight Instructor in a Chinese government owned flight [...]

Flight Experience 4.1 – Formation Flying 101 – Video blog
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Flight Experience 4.1 – Formation Flying 101 – Video blog
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Flight Experience 4.1 – Formation Flying 101 – Video blog

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-02-15T14:32:57+08:00January 21st, 2018|Aircraft, Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training|

Short video of our formation flying experiment I did with another pilot in a Cessna 172. Events of the day are described in my Aircraft Experience 4 - First Flight to Kill Devil Hills post. If the video doesn't work in China you can see it in YouKu at Formation Flying in Cessna 172

Flight Experience 4 – First Flight to Kill Devil Hills
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Flight Experience 4 – First Flight to Kill Devil Hills
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Flight Experience 4 – First Flight to Kill Devil Hills

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-02-15T14:33:42+08:00January 19th, 2018|Aircraft, Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training|

It was the closest I have been to another aircraft while flying one. ∼Vesa Aircraft Experience 4 - Cessna 172 I did my flight training in a flight school called North American Institute of Aviation (also called NAIA). The school was located in small town called Conway in South Carolina, United States. I spent about a year there starting with private pilot training, then instrument rating training, followed by commercial pilot, multi-engine, and flight instructor license training. Private pilot training was done in a two seat Cessna 152. Once I received my private pilot license I moved on to a slightly bigger Cessna 172. It had a more powerful engine and could carry four people instead of two. Unlike most of the C152's that we had, the C172's were approved for instrument flying; meaning we could find our way to different airports just by using different navigational instruments instead of [...]

Flight Experience 3.1 – The Sound of Liberty
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Flight Experience 3.1 – The Sound of Liberty
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Flight Experience 3.1 – The Sound of Liberty

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-02-15T19:22:59+08:00January 15th, 2018|Aircraft, Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training|

Flight Experience 3.1 - The Sound of Liberty This is a video of a takeoff, taxy, and landing in a Liberty XL2 Aircraft. The video is an addition to my blog post "Flight Experience 3". Please check out my post to find out why it is the sound I'll never forget! Credits for the music goes to my friend Eeem [Eim] in Helsinki. Check out his music here. 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. If you are just looking to see something fun you will like this Airplane Spinning Video. For all my videos you should check out my YouTube Channel, and don’t forget to subscribe to the channel!

Flight Experience 3 – The Day I Almost Died!
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Flight Experience 3 – The Day I Almost Died!
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Flight Experience 3 – The Day I Almost Died!

By FunkyPilot - Vesa|2018-02-15T19:23:55+08:00January 14th, 2018|Aircraft, Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training|

I didn’t crash that day but it was close. ∼Vesa Flight Experience: Liberty XL2 It was a beautiful day in Ormond Beach, Florida, and a regular day in a life of a flight instructor. I showed up at the school early in the morning. The sun was just about to rise and the air was moist with dew. I parked my car at the parking lot outside the airport fence, got out and used my key code to enter the airside of the airport. It was a short walk to the flight school entrance. It was dark inside; I was the first one arriving to work as was usual those days. My goal was to fly as much as possible so I volunteered to do all the available flights, even the early ones. I was about to leave USA for China few weeks later, so my future was unknown and I [...]