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„Islands of the North Sea“ is the second part of expedition named „European islands from the sky“ which I started this Spring. In this part I am planning to fly over, také photographs and videos of Channel Islands, Outer and Inner Hebrides, Orkney islands, Faroe islands, Shetland islands, Frisian Islands and many solitary islands alongside the coast of western England, Scotland, Norway, Denmark and Germany. The journey is planned to take about 10 days and it will be followed on-line on the main Czech news portal iDNES.cz (www.idnes.cz) which will show on line map with actual position of the aircraft as well on line news and daily updated photographs. Not everything will be in English but I hope everyone will be able to enjoy the photographs and the map. I am planning to depart on Monday, 16 June a.m. more

I wanted to contribute to the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day and pay tribute to the soldiers who were there and  especially to those who lost their lives. The best way I could do so was to prepare a video which shows aerial views of the disembarkation beaches. I hope you will like it and  it will give you a better understanding of the D-Day situation. more

This article focuses on some of the critical locations of WWII – Potsdam, Berlin, Peenemunde, Hamburg, Helgoland, Bremen. The photographs taken from the air as well as land show these places today a make it easier to imagine the impact the warmachine had not only on Germany. The article contains 40 photographs, map of the trip as well as a video. more

The trip in my tiny sport  aircraft to Norway was on my list of quite some time but I could not make up my mind as it might prove somewhat difficult especially due to the harsh and unpredictable weather. Finally I decided to fly alone and instead of a passenger  take with me stuff that would have helped me overcome an emergency landing in the cold mountains. The weather on the trip was indeed not very pleasant – during the 8 days I flew over Scandinavia only 2 days were sunny. However, the photographs and the video shots prove how beautiful the landscape of Norway and Sweden are. If you cannot read the article, you can at least enjoy the photos contained in it and the photo gallery shown in the photos section as well as the video which is also in English. more

Flying from Czech Republic to Cyprus is not so simple. My objective for this 2500 km (about 1600 miles) long journey was to make only one stop on the whole journey planned for two days. During the flight I was, however, faced with three major problems which made it truly unforgettable. First, It was the gas explosion in the Galileo offices in Prague where I had many ex-colleagues and friends (see for example: here). Second, it was the cost saving measures at Corfu airport which were the reason behind the damage to my pitot tube that translated into three days of waiting for a new one and a lot of money. Third, it was the strong headwind which nearly prevented me from reaching Cyprus almost forcing me to land on the sea. Even flying back was not easy – storm over my technical stop over Brindisi, engine problems half way over the Adriatic sea and high turbulent winds over the Alps. However, I made it and I logged another interesting trip into my diary. more

This is the first part of a three-part series of articles published on the iDnes news portal. The objective was to document the journey which almost 1 million of Czech tourists take every year in order to spend their vacations in Croatia. I flew with the editor of the blog section of iDnes – Mr Dvorak who did the photographing. This first part describes the journey from my base airport at Pribram to Zadar in Croatia. We flew over Vienna, then to the lake Balaton and to the south-west to spend the night at Maribor in Slovenia. The next day we continued to Zadar.  more

The second part of a three-part series of articles published on the iDnes news portal to document the journey a million of Czech tourists take every summer to enjoy vacation on the Adriatic coast. The journey was made more interesting by the fact that I forgot my aircraft documents in Pribram and at the airport of Zadar I was confronted with my first ever ramp check where the absence of the documents was exposed to the Croatia civil aviation officials. It took about two hours to sort everything out through my frantic efforts and the help of friends at my home base. We then flew alongside the coast, photographed and filmed the beaches, the islands and little towns. We reached Trieste Ronchi airport at around five p.m. and at about six we departed for the last part of trip across the Alps. more

The third part of a three-part series of articles published on the iDnes news portal do document the journey a million of Czech tourists take every Summer to enjoy vacation on the Adriatic coast. This part is focused on the flight from Triest Ronchi airport back to Pribram over the Alps which were covered in clouds at that time. We returned to Pribram at around half past eight. more