Speyer and Heidelberg

Gyro_Kai

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Location
near Frankfurt, Germany
Aircraft
MT-03, Calidus (rent)
Total Flight Time
about 150
While the BDs are still going on, we have to do our own flying here. This time the trip went South. Hard to believe that it was freezing last time in the air.
The first trees are flowering, the pools are cleaned. (all pictures click to enlarge)
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Across the fields, I wonder what they sprayed at the bottom left, probably liquid dung.
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Nice, how the lakes can heve different colour
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The last river crossing before Speyer
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Speyer is famous for its large Cathedral in the middle
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And for its Technik Museum directly below the final approach (take a wild guess why I went here)
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While I went for a walk, the bird rested in the sun
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Inside the museum all periods of relevant technological epochs are displayed, of course also a lot of flying stuff like this BF109
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And some more modern stuff like thif Phantom
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Or this Russian Hind helicopter
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Some but not all planes could be entered like this Antonov 22
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Well, officer, next time please stay away from the evidence.

This is just a normal car?!
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On fly-out you could see the proximity of the museum and the airport
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Then I flew East, past the Hockenheim race-course
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taking a turn over Schwetzingen with its beautiful castles
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Finally a look at Heidelberg, famous for the bridges, the original medieval city center and the castle towering over everything
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Then, with fuel not allowing much more adventure, I went more or less straight home, past the nuclear power plant Biblis
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and finally our little TV-tower with the airport stretching out behind the forest.
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I have attached the Google Earth KML file, so you can follow my route. Just unpack and doubleclick if you have GE installed.

Thank you for looking at my pictures and please comment.


Kai.
 

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I flew an AH-64 to an airshow in Speyer in September 1992. It was a 1.5 hour cross-country flight each way from Illesheim where I was stationed. All the cross-country flights in Germany were great. Beautiful, clean landscape with awesome views - I do have to say that the smell of the liquid dung in the farm fields was a slight detractor!
 
Beautiful tour. Beautiful Germany. Speyer is the home of many aeronautical firms, incluiding some Sport Light Planes such as the FKs. A lot of air history there! Thank you.
 
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Great trip and pictures as always, Kai. You're spoiling us!

-- Chris.
 
Hi, Kai!

This world is yet very small!

I think I saw you in the afternoon during this trip while I was visiting my auntie in Schriesheim. But I didn't recognize you. I guess you also didn't see me sitting in a garden in front of a chinese restaurant.

Can you give me a hint how you produced these nice kml's? I use my Garmin PGS III Pilot but I only get 2D data without altitude data. I have to add my altitude "manually" with a little perl program that I use for the transformation to kml. How do you do this?

Nevertheless: I'm looking forward for my A3-Avionics AVIS G50 EFIS which I will get soon and which will be able to generate kml's directly.

CU, latest at Gelnhausen (still planned), Holger
 
Hello Holger,

Ah it was you down there, I thought so :D.

I have a Mio-PNA with PocketFMS. It collects a breadcrumb-file automatically, which can be converted to KML with an extra program. Height and everything.

Kai.
 
Nice pictures Kai . Thanks. I always enjoy seeing your countryside and aviation.

(ID: 55409) ..... The last picture in post #5 shows an interesting round structure. Is it a park or a memorial or something ? Very nice.

Arnie
Bell 47
 
Nicest back yard I have ever seen Kai. Not boring at all. From the air it looks like a "perfectly" laid out design. I read some of the Wikopedia history and it was built a long time ago. Certainly it was before men were flying . I wonder if the designers knew how good it would look from the air.

Arnie . Bell 47.

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:) if your pictures get boring we will be sure to tell you so don't stop yet:)
 
Hi, Kai!

This world is yet very small!

I think I saw you in the afternoon during this trip while I was visiting my auntie in Schriesheim. But I didn't recognize you. I guess you also didn't see me sitting in a garden in front of a chinese restaurant.

:):)I knew it was you right away Holger. I zoomed in the picture and saw you going for a second helping of Chinese food. :):)
 
Nicest back yard I have ever seen Kai. Not boring at all. From the air it looks like a "perfectly" laid out design. I read some of the Wikopedia history and it was built a long time ago. Certainly it was before men were flying . I wonder if the designers knew how good it would look from the air.

Arnie . Bell 47.

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:) if your pictures get boring we will be sure to tell you so don't stop yet:)

Hi Arnie. Thanks, I'll keep posting.
Those magnificient gardens for the castles were built by the enslaved peasants of the environment. Also a way of "goverment employment". They often were build with the flying folks in mind, namely Angels and the Almighty. It still is amazing, how they could get those perfect right angels and circles done, all on the ground and without the final check from the air.

Here a modern day example.

While the tour looks very flat, I did see some mountains, well hills, on the way back, as I went around the Mannheim control zone. Mountains without castles don't really exist in the Rhine valley.


Kai.
 

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