Roehris Aviation Pages - Gallery on the job

I'd like to take you along on this flight from Stuttgart to Agadir. Enjoy the marvellous sights of the Pyrenees, bathin' in the bright spring sun, of ! Note: Due to the weather being quite different on such long flights, the pictures of two flight have been combined (see date top right) to give a better impression. Crew members may differ within the "picture voyage".
	After a relaxed briefing, aircraft preparation and an ontime departure in Stuttgart, we have been climbing towards Geneva, and crossed southern France from Lyon to the Pyrenees. Right now we are slightly south of Toulouse, the town where our Airbus A310 D-AHLW was "born" in 1989. We are heading towards the waypoint SOVAR between Toulouse and Zaragoza.
	Approaching the Pyrenees from the region of Lourdes in southern France.
	The highest peaks in the chain, Monte Perdido with 3355m and Pico de Aneta with 3404m, are "head on" with many of the Alps' peaks!
	A beautiful view
	The southern ridge of the Pyrenees,.
	A workplace with a view...
	A small rotor cloud over a valley.
	Even "el commandante" is happy about the privileges of this job.
	A last view "over the shoulder" towards the spanish coastline and the Bay of Biscayne/Golfe de Gascogne.
	Attack! Bon appetit :-)
	Our purserette collects the breakfast, or to be correct, its remains.
	Abeam Pamplona, enroute towards the waypoint NASOS southeast of Madrid.
	Interesting view of the instrument panel...
	...showing "all normal".
	"Unusual attitude photography"...
	Approach towards Agadir. The surrounding mountains, part of the "High Atlas" mountain range, are quite impressive (Jebel Toubkal some kilometers to our left side is 4165m high)! So our altitude at this point northeast of Agadir is still FL130.
	Look direction north-northwest, towards Essaouira.
	The last hurdle, and then a steep descent towards Agadir begins, onto the DME arc that leads us towards the ILS28.
	The view out of the captains left front side into the valley of the Sous river, and if you turn your head backwards,...
	...you'll get this view towards the south-southeast, and if you turn it even more...
	...you'll get to see this. :-)
	Our crew during the stop at Agadir.
	For once we had enough time to drink a "mocca" in the airport restaurant and to quickly take a crew picture, before the first bus with the passengers arrived (it's in fact already about 50 meters from our stairs).
	Climbout from runway 28 towards the west. A nice view on the righthand side towards the city of Agadir and the king's estates (golf courses and chateau are somewhere down there -the reason why we are not allowed to turn north before we have overflown the coastline).
	After a right turn we are northbound, another view over the city...
	...and the harbor of Agadir.
	The new (right part of picture and above picture centerline) and the old (left below) airport of Agadir, the latter now the king's private airport (as far as I know).
	Climbing out towards Essaouira, overflying the cape in the region of Zaouit Sidi Brahim ou Ali.
	Overtaking a B737-800...
	...one of our favourite sports...
	...there she goes. Byebye!
	Passing the Strait of Gibraltar, view to the east. On the right side, you see the the city of Tanger with the airport, above is a clearly visible cloud bank spreading from above Ceuta (left end of cloud bank) towards Tetouan (under the far right cloud). The you see the Strait itself, and just to its left on the Spanish side, the white city of Tarifa pointing into the Strait.
	A minute later, you can clearly see Tarifa (right of photo center) with its most famous surfing beaches, and the Bay of Gibraltar (mid left)...
	...with the cities of Algeciras (bottom right, Spain) and Gibraltar (top right, Great Britain) with its distinct 426m high rock and the airport just to its left side. The border between Gibraltar and Spain runs just north of the airport, so left of the runway, you can already see the Spanish city of La Linea.
	An interesting digging zone north of Madrid.
	We are already back over the central european alps. An A320 of LTU approaches from the right side on his airway from the region of St. Tropez towards Luxembourg...
	...and crosses our path safely underneath. Just 40 minutes to touchdown! Time to get an actual weather for our destination, pull out the approach charts, give a briefing, and start the descent! I hope you enjoyed the ride with us!