International flights in a sport aircraft offer fantastic opportunities to see the world differently. I want to share this experience with anyone who has the same passion. That is the main reason why we have developed this portal in which you can find aerial photos and videos of places in Europe, Africa, New Zealand and the . To record the flights I carry three cameras under the aircraft (two under the wings and one under the tail) and a hand-held camera inside the cabin. To my knowledge we now own the largest collection of aerial video and photo records of European islands and many cities as well as other points of interest such as volcanoes, fjords, glaciers etc. - some 6000 Gb of material.
My main focus is unusual features (islands, volcanos, glaciers, mountains, fjords etc.) or historical places (mainly WWII and WWI). I work closely with the No 1 internet news portal in the Czech Republic - iDNES.cz, which publishes the photos, articles, videos and an interactive map on line so that their readers can follow my expeditions in real time. The readership is between 20-50,000 per day during my trips. In addition I organise public presentations and pilot courses focusing on international VFR flying.
In 2014 I carried out an expedition entitled "European Islands from the Skies". The expedition covered islands in the Mediterranean, East Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic Sea. Altogether about 45 flight days and almost 200 flight hours have resulted in a fantastic series of photos and videos which you can find on this site. In addition I have published four e-books with photos, text and videos covering these trips. So far these are only available in Czech and one in but if there is interest I am prepared to make English and French versions too.
My main focus is unusual naturarl features (islands, volcanos, glaciers, mountains, fjords etc.) or historical places (mainly WWII and WWI). I work closely with the No 1 internet news portal in the Czech Republic - iDNES.cz, which publishes the photos, articles, videos and an interactive map on line so that their readers can follow my expeditions in real time. The readership is between 20-50,000 per day during my trips. In addition I organise public presentations and pilot courses focusing on international VFR flying.
In 2014 I carried out an expedition entitled "European Islands from the Skies". The expedition covered the islands of the Mediterranean, East Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Altogether about 45 flight days and almost 200 flight hours have resulted in a fantastic series of photos and videos which you can find on this site. In addition I have published four e-books with photos, text and videos covering these trips. So far these are only available in Czech and one in Frenche but if there is interest I am prepared to make English and French versions too.
Photos and videos with brief explanations are chronologically shown below starting with the latest. To my knowledge the collection of videos and photos on this website is the most systematic presentation of aerial videos and photos available anywhere.
June 26, 2014
This was the last day of this part of the expedition “European
Islands from the Skies”. I flew over the North Frisian
Islands, Helgoland, East Frisian Islands and then along the
river Elbe back to Příbram. The flight took me some five hours. more
June 26, 2014
I left Esbjerg at 8 a.m. and flew over the East Frisian Islands,
Helgoland and North Frisian Islands back to Příbram. The flight
took me . This was the last part of the second trip of the
expedition "European Islands from the Skies". more
June 25, 2014
The area of Bergen is just beautiful and if you are as lucky as I
was with the weather, there can be nothing more stunning than the
nearby fjords and glaciers in the mountains. Having photographed
and filmed everything I could, I continued to the airport of Skien.
From there I flew over to the Danish town of Esbjerg where I stayed
for the night. more
June 25, 2014
Bergen city and bay were absolutely fantastic. I could film them
thanks to the friendly Bergen tower controller who let me fly
there. From there I climbed to 6500 feet flying into the mountains
to film some Norwegian fjords and glaciers. The weather was great.
I landed at the little airport of Skien, lunched, changed the
batteries in the cameras and continued to Esbjerg in Denmark. In
total I flew over four hours that day. more
June 24, 2014
I was a bit upset that the weather was grey on the day I planned to
film the Faroe Islands. The ATC controller at Vagar airport had a
different view - he thought I was very lucky the weather was
great... The meteo statistics proved him right – for over 280 days
a year the FaroeIislands are blessed with rain. When I finished
filming the islands I refuelled and flew to Bergen in Norway. The
flight took about four hours. more
June 24, 2014
There was no filming on day 8 since the entire journey was over the
North Sea with no islands. I started day 9 with an impressive
sightseeing flight around the Faroe Islands. It took me about 1.5
hours but I discovered a whole new world of this fairy tale
archipelago. I landed back Vagar airport, refuelled and departed
for the next leg of the journey - a four hour flight to
Bergen. more
June 23, 2014
Day 8 started with a lot of rain. Howevertrusting that the weather
would improve, at around 10 o´clock I departed for the Faroe
Islands. The flight took over three hours and took me to Vagar, the
only airport on the Faroe Islands. more
June 22, 2014
Instead of continuing to the Shetland Islands I decided to stay at
the same excellent accommodation on the Orkneysbefore continuing on
to the Faroe Islands. So I made the one hour trip to the
airport of Lerwick. From there I flew around the beautiful
Shetlands, landed, changed the batteries in my cameras and returned
to the Orkneys. Altogether 3.5 hours of flight. more
June 22, 2014
Instead of continuing to the Shetland Islands I decided to stay at
the same excellent accommodation on the Orkneys. I made a day
trip to the Shetlands and flew around these great islands
before returning back to the Orkneys. more
June 21, 2014
On the first day of Summer I left Glenforsa and headed for Lamb
Holm in the Orkneysflying over Fort William, the Caledonian
Canal and Inverness. The weather was quite fine so that same
afternoon I made a sightseeing trip around the Orkneys. more
June 21, 2014
I left Glenforsa in the morning and flew over Loch Ness, Inverness
and Wick to the Orkney Islands. There I landed at Lamb Holm
airfield. Lamb Holm is a privately owned island and has one of the
most interesting airports I have ever landed at. In the late
afternoon I made a sight-seeing trip around the Orkneys. It is a
beautiful archipelago with an enormous amount of history. For WWII
enthusiasts I can recommend Scapa Flow and the Churchill
Barriers... more
June 20, 2014
The weather was unreliable but I hoped for the best and set off for
the only beach airport in the world - Barra. I flew over the island
of Mull and the Iona monastery. After a low level flight to avoid
the heavy clouds I flew into great weather over Barra and after a
lot of hesitation did my first beach landing. Then I continued via
Stornoway, Plockton, Eilean Donan Castle and back to
Glenforsa. more
I have been flying gliders since my age of 15 and in 2006 I completed my PPL in Texas, USA. More
