data desaster!

last week i had a data desaster since my internal secondary ssd for all pictures broke down.
i replaced it and went on in best mood to reinstall the files from external backup when real desaster stroke and the backup was not recognized by my mac!
so i went with a data recovery software over the backup and after days of computing i am glad 99% could be recovered!
really bad is that  the folder structure was lost and i have to sort out 25000 pictures again!
getting to work, will take a few moments...

brgds
cu
nuck

busy during high season...

the work is keeping me busy and with the company still in lack of pilots after last years match about the collective work agreement there is enough flying for everybody now...

in a cycle of sleeping and flying i don't find too much time to think, sort pictures and post a lot here, trying to improve a bit on the frequency of posts..

here just a short one from Xiamen/China,
i found a funny little self service library i wanted to show and some guerilla-gardening in the concrete desert of the streets...

cu, brgds
dominik

Amman, Jordan

another stop in Amman, good weather and we took the opportunity to visit the historic site of Jarash. even though just a little part of it is unearthed and the bigger part still being burried below the modern village on top, it was an impressive view!

Jordan might at the moment be one of the most underrated tourist destinations, and I would suggest to visit it soon, since at the moment people are open, friendly, very moderately religious, meaning that it still is fun to visit the country also for women.

and there is a lot to see historicly, like Jarash, the Dead Sea, Petra or Wadi Rum...

it is like the pearl of the Middle East!

cu!

nuck

Africa...

the area i am tring to avoid is Africa...
of all areas around the world we are flying to, it is the poorest, with the highest welth gap standing between myself and the people surrounding me on the streets. it just feels uncomfortable and sometimes even dangerous.
trying to avoid it....
to make it clear, i am only talking about larger cities on the continent where we fly to, the countryside is a total different case!

cu - nuck

few pics from there:

Pictures Hong Kong....

the blog saw a bit of a break, since i was really worked off, tired and in desperate need of vacation, which i spent at the wedding celebration of a good friend and a week at mykonos, which is easy to reach without too long flying and nice and warm at the time of the year.

now fresh and recovered, i am out again to fly and picture the world.

Brgds

nuck

Mykonos, Greecs, the gate to infinity:

Beginning of the week brought a long nightflight departing Luxembourg at sunset and flying with threeman-crew via Almaty to Hongkong.

While Lux was cloudy with some drizzle (i never thought somewhere in the center of Europe the weather could be as bad as in Lux until i startet working there), we were lucky on the trip with sunshine at Almaty in the morning and some clear air at Hong Kong, which is rather rare!

You can see the new airport with the brand new bridge spanning towards Macau, the city with the good visible stretch of the famous old Kai Tak airport, closed 1998, and the cramped city.

enjoy!

and after landing on the ILS 25L i walked out for an hour to compensate after the long flight, enjoying samo street photography to relax. there is always somthing to find at Hong Kong, people, street art installations strange food and pharmacy shops and much more!

up to number 6...

Cargolux further expanded -
now number 6 in the freight-world!

that kept me quite busy and i will share a few experiences of the last weeks with you soon!

article in german from the "Luxemburger Wort" here:

https://www.wort.lu/de/business/frachtfluggeschaeft-cargolux-weltweit-unter-den-top-6-57592685ac730ff4e7f61b1c

cu soon,
brgds
nuck

ps. :
yes, sometimes flyng a 747 can be a feeling like surfing when you break swinging left/right high/low and changing speeds through a bunch of clouds, surfing them down to earth again in close contact but without touching, hence without turbulence - feels great, is fun, will definitly do that again!

circling the world, back in chicago...

like every job, too much of the same gets a bit boring, add some exhaustsion due to the completely crazy bodyclock after circling the earth eastbound for 4 times in a row and you get a zombie pilot,
never fully awake and whenever he sees a bed he can immediatly sleep.
while beeing planned and flown fully legal it makes me think if my job was ever considered by the lawmakers.
can't wait to get home for some off-time to recover again...

to stay positive and relax i usually take my camera and walk the streets, blending out the stress and workrelated stuff and focus on the moment which becomes a form of meditation.

today i present the impressions of walking a freezingly cold chicago in april.

cu
nuck

A fuel station for the global economy...

This week i am circumnavigating the earth for the second time within a month.
At the moment the demand to fly goods from Europe and Asia into the USA is still stronger than the traffic from Asia to Europe and thats why we, like many other companies, circumnavigate the earth eastbound. The demand from the USA to Europe is still stronger than vice versa and therfore it starts to make sense that we fly eastbound, but also that the US has a strong intrest in getting rid of custom fees and alike in Europe, hence pushing for the TTIP to sell their goods.
This is also why at first glance TTIP seems to lower prices for the customer in Europe, but at the long run it will further damage the economy in Europe, strenghten the US economy and Europe will be the big looser in the long run.

The demand for goods to be delivered as fast as possible after ordering pushes for more and more air transport and that's why we fly everything from tabletts to underwear and on the way across the Pazific ocean we have to stop for fuel and new rested crews in Alaska, at the moment Anchorage is the favorite for us, while years ago it was Fairbanks.
There the 747s of all different companies line up for fuelling and the crews tumble through the city on their zombie walk to the rest.

Now that the temperatures are getting warmer and the sun stronger it is easy to catch a nice view of the Jumbos coming and leaving and a lot of excellent aircraft spotter pictures are taken here.
here is my contribution of this weeks looks....

brgds, cu
nuck

Iran, Teheran

before the last crises, involving Iran and the West, I liked to fly to Teheran and even planned a motorcycle trip from Baku to Muscat, but over sudden the political environment changed and our company was not allowed to fly there anymore. 

I enjoyed taking a subway ride (German built) downtown to the bazar, one of the largest worldwide, strolling around with my camera, talking to very friendly and open people. 

I am glad that politics is taking another turn and look forward to fly into the diverse, beautiful an cultural interesting country of Iran again soon, where you can enjoy about everything imaginable from skiing to warm beaches at the sea all round the year!

downturn of the city was however the ever chaotic traffic with accidents on every second corner!

join me today on a stroll through Teheran, especially the bazar area:

brgds, cu

nuck