Where is the most beautiful place you have flown?
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Where is the most beautiful place you have flown?
More specifically, outside of the UK?
Looking for inspiration on where to go on holiday and rent an aircraft
Would be curious to hear where others have rented outside of their home country, how the experience was and how easy it is to get checked out and rent aircraft abroad?
Looking for inspiration on where to go on holiday and rent an aircraft
Would be curious to hear where others have rented outside of their home country, how the experience was and how easy it is to get checked out and rent aircraft abroad?
I rented a hang-glider and soared with sea eagles over the Lighthouse at Byron Bay, Austalia.
Which was nice.
Not me but you get the idea.
Which was nice.
Not me but you get the idea.
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In order of beauty: The west coast of Norway, East coast of Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, Yukon, British Columbia mountains near Vancouver, South New Mexico and Arizona, Outer Banks of the Carolinas USA, Coast of Georgia USA, Florida Keys.
In the UK, I think that the Hebrides are as beautiful a place to fly as anywhere in the world.
Ourside the UK, I have loved flying over the deserts in California and Arizona, particularly around mountains, sand features, the odd dead volcano, the Flagstaff meteor crater...
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Ourside the UK, I have loved flying over the deserts in California and Arizona, particularly around mountains, sand features, the odd dead volcano, the Flagstaff meteor crater...
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In the UK, low level through the Cairngorms, Snowdonia, Lake District or over Morecambe Sands. In Europe I think Norway has some of the most beautiful scenery, and the best I've seen to date is around Arlesund.
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Funnily enough, I was going to say the north-west coasts of Scotland and Ireland.
The Byron Bay suggestion is fantastic - there is plenty of GA around there too.
But, aside from Scotland (!), perhaps over the great barrier reef off far-north Queensland. Matter of fact - flying in Australia in general is just amazing- the vastness of the country in itself is spectacular - desert, to snow, to mountains to great barrier reefs - quite sensational.
And then there is NZ - that's next on the bucket list!
The Byron Bay suggestion is fantastic - there is plenty of GA around there too.
But, aside from Scotland (!), perhaps over the great barrier reef off far-north Queensland. Matter of fact - flying in Australia in general is just amazing- the vastness of the country in itself is spectacular - desert, to snow, to mountains to great barrier reefs - quite sensational.
And then there is NZ - that's next on the bucket list!
For easy renting, go to the US. After trying around in 1987/88, I've repeatedly gone back to Grand Junction, Colorado. Cheap rental, good planes, good cheap motels and food. And G(ood) airspace. And lots of good weather.
You need a US 61.75 license issued before you travel, on the basis of your EASA PPL. You'll need a 2 hour Biennial Flight Review - which will be part (or all) of your convertion/check-out, depending on your needs.
Be sure to have all the family, if they're going to be flying with you, covered for flying in a non-commercial aircraft. American Express did this for me until I was too old. (65 or was it 69?) Since then I've got it through the broker who insures our Jodel.
Link to photos from a Pa28 - pre digital, scanned (the FBO knew where I was going): http://www.flickr.com/photos/27183900@N04/
And videos from a C172:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=oZiMy7Dn8iU
You need a US 61.75 license issued before you travel, on the basis of your EASA PPL. You'll need a 2 hour Biennial Flight Review - which will be part (or all) of your convertion/check-out, depending on your needs.
Be sure to have all the family, if they're going to be flying with you, covered for flying in a non-commercial aircraft. American Express did this for me until I was too old. (65 or was it 69?) Since then I've got it through the broker who insures our Jodel.
Link to photos from a Pa28 - pre digital, scanned (the FBO knew where I was going): http://www.flickr.com/photos/27183900@N04/
And videos from a C172:
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The grand canyon is amazing (even at the altitiudes you need to cross it at as a non-commerical flight), but if you are out that neck of the woods it would be a real shame not to land at Sedona - absolutely stunning red rock surrounds and the airfield is elevated on the spine of a hill. Tioman in Malaysia is a beautiful place with a non standard approach to Land which is exciting for passengers and pilot alike. The latter would be hard to get a holiday rental for though 
. Flying Ski planes out of Meribel is also right up there - you might not solo over the course of a holiday and I think you need a mountain rating to leave the 'circuit' but it's great fun, a very different way to fly. Finally if you only have a morning - the Hudson river VFR corridor. You'll be amazed not at how close you can go to the skyscrapers, but at how close you have to go!
. Flying Ski planes out of Meribel is also right up there - you might not solo over the course of a holiday and I think you need a mountain rating to leave the 'circuit' but it's great fun, a very different way to fly. Finally if you only have a morning - the Hudson river VFR corridor. You'll be amazed not at how close you can go to the skyscrapers, but at how close you have to go!
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Durban - Cape Town along the coast - low level. Northern SA with visits to game parks. Zimbabwe/Zambia is spectacular by air. Scotland and the Highlands are quite nice. My favourite of all [inc USA] is the Caribbean islands hopping. [The Maldives and ATOLS in a Twin Otter on floats as a passenger - magnificent]
The Rift Valley and Ngong Hills out of Nairobi Wilson are worth a look. Did my solo X-country to Lake Magadi (soda lake) and felt very small against the vastness of Africa.