After my last rant posting, I am pleased to report faith restored, and as usual this achieved by nature, of which the human seems not to belong.
Sometimes the cramped task of flying is actually pleasurable, and last night was one of those occasions. Firstly because we arrived and secondly the most beautiful night landscapes. The flight took off way late, for a change not the fault of Varig, but because of a quite spectacular storm a brewing in São Paulo. That accounts for the joy of arriving, we cruised straight through the storm after take off with the plane lit up from all sides by lightning. I miss Joburg sotrms, but this was a little too close.
Just after midnight, the storm behind us, we were somewhere over Paraguay or Argentina and the slightly gibbous moon was on its way to the Andes, along with us. As we passed over the rivers and lakes below, the moon's reflection glistened off the otherwise black ground with a silver shimmer. In the distance on the horizon you could see more lightning, a really weird combination. Beautiful!
Content to be back in Chile, although I do have one wish, as part of the buy-out or refinancing of Varig, please move the landing gear test program from 'operations' to 'R&D'... oh no wait, here's an idea, how about training your pilots?
Sometimes the cramped task of flying is actually pleasurable, and last night was one of those occasions. Firstly because we arrived and secondly the most beautiful night landscapes. The flight took off way late, for a change not the fault of Varig, but because of a quite spectacular storm a brewing in São Paulo. That accounts for the joy of arriving, we cruised straight through the storm after take off with the plane lit up from all sides by lightning. I miss Joburg sotrms, but this was a little too close.
Just after midnight, the storm behind us, we were somewhere over Paraguay or Argentina and the slightly gibbous moon was on its way to the Andes, along with us. As we passed over the rivers and lakes below, the moon's reflection glistened off the otherwise black ground with a silver shimmer. In the distance on the horizon you could see more lightning, a really weird combination. Beautiful!
Content to be back in Chile, although I do have one wish, as part of the buy-out or refinancing of Varig, please move the landing gear test program from 'operations' to 'R&D'... oh no wait, here's an idea, how about training your pilots?
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