HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 to all of you !!!!!

Many happy landings

Matthias

Tel Aviv Dec 2007

Some impressions about my flight to Tel Aviv, surpreme weather compared to Europe :-)



checkin out the newest Red Bulletin in FL410

my friends Danny and Shay, met them first time since 4 years, good to have friends all over the globe

walking on sunshine...

...and in the water...

...in peace in Tel Aviv, so it is!

sunset at the beach, awesome relaxing...

which one do we take? :-) Daddy and son, or mother and daughter...

Aerobatic-Training Spain December 2007

Spanish Tapas, excellent food, Pedro showed us some good places, tanks Pedro!

Hangar, still enough space for more planes to come :-)

Patrick, our trainer, always looking for a sunny place at the cold temperatures outside!!

Golabal Aerobatic Team 2008 (left to right; Matthias Dolderer/Germany, Matt Hall/Australia, Patrick Paris/Trainer/France, Pete McLeod/Canada, Yoshi Muroya/Japan)

Me with Patrick Paris

Good food in Madrid, thanks Alex for the superb dinner, check out the angel in the sky, she´s also on the table :-)

Summertime in 11C :-) ready to go home, my friend is taking care of me all the time!

Tannheim-Dinslaken-Madrid

Ferryflight from Dinslaken to Madrid, Casarrubios for training

my dad brouth me to Memmingen Airport, first time I depart from here with an airliner...




TUI-FLY, quick checkin, comfortable travel







packing for ferry, gotta wait a bit for better weather

Summertime is resting, and also preparing for a long flight





flying low, 30 kts headwind, little higher would have been 40 or 50 kts...windmills was turning pretty fast...

SPA, Formula-One-Ring, weather still ok



appx. 80 NM north of Dijon, still flyable



Landing in Semur-en-Auxois,
I had no time to take pictures here, happy to have a runway to land, 4NM before Dijon the clouds were on the ground, so no chance to land there, divert to here, LFGQ. First there was nobody at the airfield, I thought I have to go to the village to ask, but luckily a man showed up and gave me some fuel and put my plane in the hangar.
Staying here overnight, waiting for the front moving through, and hoping for better weather tomorrow morning.





Aviationfuel....no cheap at all...

N8JX at LFGQ after refueling, looks like int´l airport, ha?

End of day one, 01 dec 2007

DAY2 of Ferry

Departure in LFQG, appx 1000 in the morning, as I pushed the plane out of the hangar, it startet to rain again with low clouds, but there was enough wind to lift the clouds high enough to fly

15 min. after take off close to the Rhone Valley, the weather cleared up and the visibility was great, as you can see, deep breath, happy to be out of this frontal system :-)

btw Dijon and Montpellier somewhere, 35kts headwind, but perfect visibility, good fun!

approaching mediterian sea, just 5NM east of Montpellier, nice airfield for fueling, the only one in the area which is available for refueling this sunday... nice people, helpful and friendly

Ferry Chandler/PHX to Monument Valley

With 9 airplanes we took off at Chandler on sunday, after briefing all decided to go VIA and not DCT, means we went to Sedona for famous pankakes! From there via Grand Canyon (above) into marble canyon, passed page, nice flight over lake powell finally to monument valley at gouldings airstrip.

In the navajo nation there is no alcohol, forbidden to drink that stuff, own rules.

Some pictures below, the ferryflight was unbelievable awsome, lifetimetrip! enjoy the pix.

Phoenix passing in the east

awesome landscape!!, like in the westernfilms, following the river :-)

Jürg in the Bo105, oh what fun it is :-), this flight is rated top level for 2007!

Sedona Airport, 5.000 ft elevation, haven´t been there since 1995, good to be back from pancakes! a must!

UNA and raceplanes in Sedona, relaxing at nice cool temps, something very special to fly there!

nice colors in the rocks and mountains

no words....

cool (freeze) feeling over grand canyon

wingman hannes arch, trailing over arizona

THE GRAND CANYON

Marble Canyon inverted

hmmm... :-)

Lake Powell

Lake Powell

Lake Powell

Monument Valley Airfield, yeah, we made it!

Monument Valley

München - Denver, just under 11 hours, nice ride in cockpit and good food in bussy-lounge :-)



Final approach to Denver, elevation 6000 feet, very high, nice landing!




Praparing D-EUNA for next mission!



You see, Arizona flowers! Many of them all over! better have a good lycoming...


Mr. Versteegh having ICE-Tea, teaching the waitress french language according Team 69 :-)




Chandler Airport, the place we have our airplanes before leaving to Monument Valley.
Very nice, good service, nice facility, the airport is located just on the border of Phoenix, AZ.




After Testflight, D-EUNA and me ready for the new destination!




Short visit to Kirby´s Place, nice flight enroute, funny mountains!



D-EUNA out of the house of Kirby, he´s living in paradise, very nice setup in the dessert!

Kirby´s field, btw Phoenix and Tucson, 600 x 8 m, perfecto aeroporto

Tomorrow, sunday, we will fly via some stops and nice routes to Monument Valley, I hope to have internet up there, where they had snowstorm this morning.