Some local attractions, also from the sky

Sorry for the silence, the days have been long and the mobile services have been little wonky time to time, mostly when we visited the west side of the island. High mountains do have some affect on things..

Flugskóli Islands

But back to business, me and stnz went flying on Wednesday, got a Cessna from the friendly people of Flugskóli Íslands. The plane type was the same Cessna 172SP as last time, but this time with working autopilot (ok it tried to kill us sneakingly turning to some near by mountains). This time our flight plan was to visit Eyjafjallajökull and come back. We had a little lighter load this time, so it was possible to make a longer flight.

The flight control asked about our route, and the conversation ended up with some amusement in both ends:
Flight contol: "What route are you taking"
Stnz: "Route four outbound and inbound"
Flight control: "Where are you heading after that?"
Stnz: "To Eyjafjalla... what ever"
Flight control: *laughter* "Ok, Eyjafjallajökull and back"

The scenery was completely different than the flights we took in February, even when on the second flight most of the snow near Reykjavik was melted. There was now some pretty awesome river deltas all around, and they looked amazing in the black sand.

We also saw some waterfalls, they looked little different from the sky

Skógafoss

Same one from the ground

pic by stnz

pic by stnz

Gljufurarfoss

When flying, I noticed that our flight plan was nearing the DC-3 wreck. Stnz first disagreed but almost instantly noticed I was right. Of course we had to fly over the DC-3 wreck:

And something from the ground earlier day:

Pic by stnz, me and Bror

Pic by stnz

Cockpit from the back

And of course I had to go inside of the left wing

Nacelle junction box untouched

Heading back right when trying to land, local pilot decided to do engine run-up. They were placed in a way on the airfield that the gust of air came straight for us. That was fun - even the flight control asked did we encounter a turbulence or what happened. Fortunately stnz is a good pilot and we and the Cessna got back down safely.

You can see the plane on the right

Oh, and added bonus: Sports Tracker works also with flights. Not sure about the calories though: