On a Recent trip over the Atlantic I was summoned up to the flight deck by the captain, a good friend of mine. He wanted to point out one of the best views of Greenland he had seen in awhile. It was a beautiful day for flying, no clouds and the pictures I took came out beautifully. When he tried to call up some of the more 'senior' flight attendants to see the view they quickly said "Seen it before a thousand times!" "I'm eating, or I'm busy". Only one other flight attendant was brave enough to come up to the menacing cockpit to come look at the spectacular view with me. :P
As we all stood there, or sat their in silence, I was clicking away taking pictures, the captain told us the most remarkable story. He told us this :
"You know, it bothers me a little when I want the flight attendants to come up and get a great view of something spectacular and they couldn't be bothered, because 'they've seen it before'! I'll never forget a couple of years ago when I used to be a captain on a much small aircraft and fly to the US, we were flying into LGA (Laguardia Airport NYC) and we had one of the most amazing approaches into the airport... right over Manhattan so close to the twin towers that my breath caught in my throat. I couldn't keep it to my self, I had to call the In-charge flight attendant to see the spectacular view. I called her up before it was too late and told her to run up to see how amazing it was. She responded with "no, i've seen it already, maybe next time, thanks!" and I was disappointed, but didn't think twice about it. Until 4 days later... when on September 11th- they were no longer standing. I've always wondered how much or little that flight attendant regretted her decision to not just pop her head around the door for 5 seconds to see something she would NEVER have the opportunity to see again! That has stuck with me for life! Lesson of the story girls, if ever the pilots call you up for something as simple as a seeing a gorgeous view, my advice: Do it! Every time! "
We all had goosebumps listening to that story. Leave it to a pilot to steal Greenland's thunder! Ha!Ha!
Still ended up with some awesome shots though, check them out!
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Greenland and surrounding icebergs |
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Pictures of Greenland from the flight deck |
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Right over Greenland! If you can zoom In, the dark streak is from another aircraft beside us that you can see as a tiny pinprick |
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Again another picture of the aircraft beside us. This time you can see the aircraft if you zoom in! Picture taken over Greenland from the flight deck |
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Pictures of Greenland and surrounding icebergs from the flight deck |
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| Partial views of Greenland (behind us) from the tail and engine mounted cameras Kind of looks like a gremlin face! :) |
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Pictures of Greenland and surrounding icebergs from the Flight deck |
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| Lat and Long coordinates |
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Pictures of Greenland and surrounding icebergs from the Flight Deck |
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Pictures of Greenland and surrounding icebergs from the flight deck |
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Pictures of Greenland and surrounding icebergs from the Flight deck |
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Pictures of Greenland and surrounding icebergs from the Flight deck |
