Eye in the sky

Did not expected this for the business trip in Mountain View, but I had the fortune of sitting in my colleague's Cessna for an aerial view of San Francisco!

I also got to tried out the 'flight mode' feature of my handphone. So here are the pictures I took...

Palo Alto Airport - people drive here to take
their private plane to got for dinner, or go home.

Front view of the Cessna 170B, made in 1954

The passengers.

Irene, the co-pilot, doing the pre-flight check.

Bayshore Freeway, aka 101

Bair Island

Intersection of 92 and 101

Foster City

Sunset view from behind the cockpit

First view of the San Francisco Airport landing strip

San Francisco Airport

Evening view of San Francisco

Sunset view, Pacific Ocean

We flew past the Golden Gate bridge and Alcatraz. Didn't get a good shot of these two landmarks as it was almost nightfall.

We made a stop over at Half Moon Bay Airport, where the pilot landed beautifully.

We took a 100 meter walk to an Italian restaurant next to the airport for a sumptuous dinner, before heading back to Palo Alto Airport where I parked our rental car.

Life at the bay area, what a night!