Many Germans normally fly to Madeira or the Canary Islands at Easter. . . My last stay on Fuerteventura, however, was a long time ago. It was the week before the changeover to the Euro. In the night in question I came back and was allowed to pay the taxi from Schönefeld to Potsdam in Deutsche Mark. . .
Today Condor belongs to Polska Grupa Lotnicza. . . One has to get used to that. The Boeing 757-300 is actually almost scrap iron. Condor, Delta, Icelandair and United have them in service. Today's flight was pretty fast. I was a good 10 minutes faster than the real flight of Ryanair with the Boeing 737-800NG, although I "took out some speed" in the thunderstorm over the Atlantic Ocean. In Schönefeld at take-off 8° C and at landing 21° C in Fuerteventura . . .
10:30, taxi to the runway
30.000 ft reached. VNAV and LNAV activ.
11:30 Skyguard Zürich Center, Switzerland. Germany is behind.
11:33 Geneva Center
over the french Alps via and ATC Marseille Center and to Bordeaux Center... view on Toulouse and the Pyrenees in the background
Overflying the Pyrenees in to Spain.
12:27 Overflying the frontier from France to Spain and now under the control from Madrid Center. Flight over Spain. In the distance the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar.
Jerez de la Frontera and Naval Station Rota, the biggest american installation in Spain. Its spanish and USN.
13: 25 Reaching the Border between Spain and Morocco. ATC: Casablanca Center.
It's getting uncomfortable and I'm gonna have to slow down. . .
14:32 ATC: Canarias Control. 14:36 And the landing approach shall begin with a descent to 24,000 ft.
Lanzarote in sight...
Anything down. ILS Captured.
Reaching the island of Fuerteventura
A little too high. . .
Landing 15:12 Central European Summer Time, 14:12 local time
Parking lot 28. At least there's a stop sign here for the Boeing 757. . .
