a job with no season...

while most people living in europe or north america enjoy living with the four seasons of the year, the longhaul flying crowd has no such luxuray and is living with hugh temperature and climate changes all year, completely odd for the body and most of us need half a year for the body to adopt. during that initial time most have a constant flew, loosing their voice and occacional fewer. after that initial time the body basicly adopts and we can start to enjoy living this crazy life.

while this week it's getting winter in Europe and people at home start mounting winter tyres and crank up the heating in the houses, i was sent to Brazil - Campinas, Curtiba and Petrolina - i was fighting summer temperatures of up to 38˚C, heavy rainshowers with standing water on the runway and aquaplaning. relaxing at the outdoor-pool and eating in open street-kitchens.
next week i will be back in the winter in Europe and Asia, Novosibirsk as the other extreme on the networ has now -30˚C!

and this is how the current week (November 18 to 25th) looks like:
brgds - nuck

Campinas airport, built like an aircraft carrier,

which messes up the radio-altimeter for landing and has high risk for hard landing...

a little 25 min rainshower in Campinas:

a walk through Petrolina, one of our funniest destinations, 

because it's the only uncontrolled airport we are flying to,

that means ATC controll ends descending through flightlevel 160.

unique on the 747 operation. lovely little town but rather poor...