Time goes by so quickly… In a heart beat an entire year has gone past. Yesterday [September 3rd, 2009], on the same day I first flew, I found myself flying a Cessna 172 as a Student Pilot in Command, with an instructor and two colleagues in the back seat, on an IFR flight to Évora [LPEV]. The routing took us at 6.000ft from Cascais airfield to Évora via ESP VOR, GAIOS and EVR NDB. After an NDB approach to runway 01, we flew back to Cascais at 5.000ft via ATECA, ESP and a VOR/DME approach to runway 35 at Cascais. The best part of the flight happened when one my colleagues fell asleep with his head against the window and I decided to give him a different awakening, a zero gravity awakening! Have you ever seen someone asleep floating in mid-air and only waking up once his head hits the celling? Hilarious!

Here are some photos of the flight by Miguel Grilo. n’Joy!

(65 knots…. ROTATE!)

(East side of Tires airfield)

(Carcavelos)

(25 de Abril bridge over the river)

(At CP NDB, direct ESP)

(Évora)

(Descing to 3.000ft inbound EVR)

(Overview of Évora airfield)

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