Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Flying High

One fine day I was in the lab slogging as usual. One of my managers here came by to see what I am upto. I gave him a demo of new features we are developing. Well, I work on cockpit display products. Currently working on adding new weather display products to an existing display system. It happened that he was a hobby pilot and invited me to fly with him, if I was interested!!! Why wouldn't I be interested?? He told we would go on following Friday.

Then I forgot about it in my busy debugging. Friday he came and asked me if I am ready. Oh man, I was born ready!! Then we drove to the nearby New Century airport, and I found myself in the cockpit of Cessna 172, a 4 seater single propeller airplane.
Cessna 172 - The most number of planes ever built, about 43000 planes built and still under production!!

Kansas River

Kansas River - More views


K10 and K7 intersection

My office!!
More views


More planes at the airport

It was dream-come-true moment. The bird smoothly took off. It was totally different from those jet-liners which shake the nerve off for the first timers. I have to admit I was nervous initially. It was marvelous watching the beatyful landscapes from 1500 feet high. We flew over our office, and those freeway loops, I neve thought they appear so beautyful. It was amazing 30 mins of flying. Landing was very smooth. So it was a perfect beginning to the weekend....

5 comments:

Sridhar M said...

Wow, the pictures are too good!

I remember flying for 2 mins on the Hoover dam off Las Vegas, and I know first time is unforgettable :)

Niranjan said...

AWESOME!!!

Karthik CS said...

Ohh! man.. amazing.. what an experience in life. great.

It should be breath taking experience for you.. good good..

Was photo clicking inside cockpit prohibited? swalpa adannoo torsidre chennaagirtittu.

Were sitting in co-pilot's place wearing helmet and headphones ?

Vishwanath.N said...

way 2 go dude... pics are awesome !

Madhusudan Jagadeesh said...

wonderfull photos anna ...next ondu flight purchase madbidu ..nanagondu round haksbidu!!