A Night in the Sky

This week Jeyson did 2 more night flights - one with an instructor....

And one with me! I haven't flown with Jeyson in a long time so I didn't want to miss out on the opportunity - maybe even the ONLY opportunity I'll have to fly at night!

Here's what the inside of the plane looks like at night. Everything seemed so different at night!

We flew for 2 hours (I believe the total minimum hours of night flights is 5). We flew over to nearby Goiania and Jeyson did 3 "touch and goes", meaning you land the plane and immediately take off again as you go off the runway. Goiania is a huge city (1.2 million people) and has an actual airport for commercial airlines. It was so strange for our tiny airplane with 2 passengers to come in for a landing right after an airbus!!! It was especially neat to hear the interaction between these huge planes and the control tower.

Since there were so many planes going through the airport, at one point the control tower had us just keep circling around the city until we were scheduled to land. All I can say is WOW! I can't even describe how incredible it was to fly around Goiania at night with windows on all sides (unlike in an airliner where you just have one tiny window if you're lucky :)

Looking at the crazy road system in Goiania, it's hard to believe it's a planned city!

And of course, you can't have a major city in Brazil without a soccer stadium!!