New York City, with Manhattan Island to the left of the cockpit window divider.
The Bahamas enroute to Havana, Cuba.
Grand Cloud Canyon over the Atlantic Ocean.
Left of the cockpit window divider: the high-rises of The Hague. Just to the right: Scheveningen Pier. Farther right: the entrance to Scheveningen harbor. In the far distance: Hoek van Holland and the Rotterdam Maasvlakte.
Chimneys breaking through the fog in the industrial borderland between the Netherlands and Germany.
Surreal every time: giant green irrigation circles in the bone-dry Sahara of Libya.
Sardinia at sunrise, early August, on the descent into Olbia.
Amsterdam on a sunny Sunday morning.
Amsterdam, with a departing cruise ship on the IJ.
Landing in Aruba.
Amsterdam, a cruise ship sailing past Java Island.
Taxiing across Aruba airport for departure to Bonaire, as the sun slowly sinks into the Caribbean Sea.
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson: always chaos, it's the busiest airport on earth.
Atlanta.
Atlanta with a traffic jam on the highway toward downtown.
Typical American neighborhood in Atlanta.
Towering cumulus with a halo over Africa, inbound to Kigali, Rwanda.
Lufthansa Boeing 747 goes overhead.
Cloud busting: wind turbines popping through the ground fog.
Another KLM Boeing 747 departing north from the Polderbaan at Schiphol on a long-haul flight.
Festive send-off for the first flight of the summer season from Dallas, Texas, with the entire airport handling staff and a special delegation waving us off.
Traditional water salute from the airport fire department in Dallas, Texas, for the first flight of the summer season. The warm welcome in Dallas was always much appreciated.
Sunrise over Greenland on the Calgary–Amsterdam flight.
Amsterdam beyond shafts of sunlight breaking through the clouds.
The Amstel through Amsterdam.
Amsterdam's business district: the Zuidas.
The Amsterdamse Bos with the rowing course below: the Bosbaan.
South of the winding Rhine: Düsseldorf Airport. North of it: the Ruhr, throwing up industrial plumes like tornadoes.
‘Tornadoes’.
Entering Africa: via the Egyptian north coast from the Mediterranean Sea.
Giant cumulonimbus cloud, typical of Africa's weather.
Tropical islands on the way to Havana.
A coral atoll in the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Havana.
Florida Keys.
Boeing 747 ('Jumbo') passing close overhead. Vertical separation is always at least 1,000 feet, over 300 meters.
London Heathrow from altitude, Amsterdam to Bonaire.
Malta 'on the nose', enroute to the African interior.
Manhattan, Times Square burning brightest.
Manhattan, New York City, with Times Square at its brightest, on the way home from Atlanta.
Manhattan at night, with Times Square glowing brightest and the perfectly straight street grid clearly visible across the island. At the top, the dark band is the Hudson River.
'Real flying' over the Greek islands: a visual approach into Rhodes, the kind every student pilot learns on day one, only now in something a lot bigger:)
Near San Francisco.
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco.
San Francisco, with Alcatraz at the top, just right of center.
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
Lufthansa Airbus A380 on final for one of the parallel runways at San Francisco International Airport.
Colorful scenery around the city of San Francisco.
Cumulus and color playing off each other over San Francisco.
Forest fire just outside San Francisco during our climb out on the return flight to Amsterdam.
A single wildfire outside San Francisco, spreading into a blanket of smoke.
Between cloud layers during the descent, enjoying the sunrise.
Spotters spotted: the roles are reversed at Schiphol.
Stone Mountain Park, Atlanta, Georgia.
Challenging: coming home while a southwesterly storm rages over the Netherlands.
Surfing the clouds for a while, then slowly diving into them during the descent.
Passing below us on a flight to Toronto: a United Airlines Boeing 757.
Beautiful autumn colors during a warm spell in Toronto.
Toronto and the famous CN Tower.
Azure lakes near Vancouver.
Mighty snow-covered peaks casting equally impressive shadows: Greenland en route to Vancouver.
Thunderstorms closing in on Vancouver. We left the other way, back to Amsterdam.
Vancouver: a city on the water, at the foot of serious mountains.
Snow-covered mountains and glaciers over Greenland en route to Vancouver.
Rain shower like a smoke screen, next to Vancouver airport.
Vertigo at the edge of Greenland, a low moon hanging just above the horizon.
Waiting a few minutes for the wake turbulence from the heavy aircraft ahead of us to dissipate. Departure from runway 24 at Schiphol (the Kaagbaan).
Cheerful view from the air: spring in the Netherlands!
A colleague from Continental Airlines above the winglet.
Quite a contrast: coming home from tropical Africa at dawn over a wintry Netherlands in mid-December. In the photo, a frozen Noordoostpolder with the Ketelbrug on the left.
