Awake

Yesterday we made a brief flight around the lake Balaton:

and here is a video of the trip:

Yesterday I made a few training flight for my up-and-coming Instrument Rating. The first leg was from LHTL (Tököl) in VFR and then changed to IFR before TORNO, flying to LHPR (Győr Pér), where I made two runway 30 VOR approaches and then landed with a runway 30 RNAV (GPS) approach. The second leg was from LHPR to LZIB (Bratislava), where the original plan was to fly via KUNET and perform a standard arrival via KUNET – but I got a direct clearance to the initial approach fix of the runway 31 ILS approach, by which I landed. The third leg was back from LZIB to LHTL, via a VAMOG standard departure, but here I was also cleared direct to VAMOG quite early on. Landing at LHTL was in VFR.

Here is a map representation of the trips:

Here is a video taken on the LHRP – LZIB leg:

and a video from the LZIB – LHTL leg:

the logs for the trips can be found here:

• LHTL – LHPR
• LHPR – LZIB
• LZIB – LHTL

Recently I made a family trip from Budapest, Hungary to Kotor Bay / Tivat, Montenegro, with my 5 month old daughter on board a Diamond DA-40. I summarized the preparations needed & experiences about taking a baby on board a small aircraft – albeit in Hungarian.

•  the Garming log of the flight is here (you can watch it in Google Earth as well)
• read the article – in Hungarian on safeflyer.hu

a flight from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (LYBE) to Szeged Airport (LHUD) in a Diamond DA-40 on the 2nd August 2012. recording taken with a GoPro camera.

Venice departure

I summed up our trip taken last summer to Portoroz, Slovenia & Venice, Italy on the safeflyer.hu web site – as a teaser to the up & coming flying season of this year.

• article on safeflyer.hu (in Hungarian)
• photo galleries:
• Tokol – Portoroz
• Portoroz – Venice
• Aeroport Nicelli @ Venice
• Venice – Portoroz
• Portoroz – Tokol

Golden Gate Bridge tip

I summed up my experiences on safeflyer.hu about converting a Hungarian Private Pilot License to a US FAA PPL, and on the differences between flying in Hungary vs. flying in the US. This was all done while I took to the skies in California, including the San Francisco Bay Area & then to the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

• article part I on safeflyer.hu (in Hungarian)
• article part II on safeflyer.hu (in Hungarian)
• photo galleries:
• Grass Valley – Oakland
• San Fransisco – Santa Cruz – Oakland
• Oakland – San Francisco – Golden Gate – Oakland
• Grass Valley -> Burning Man
• Burning Man morning flyout
• Burning Man – Derby
• Derby – Mammoth
• Mammoth – Derby
• Derby – Burning Man
• Burning Man – Black Rock City