Fisherman’s Wharf and the SF downtown area right as we’re flying into the bay… Posted by Picasa

Flying right over the Golden Gate Bridge…
All those cars look like little ants! I think we’re about 1500 ft up right now. Posted by Picasa

San Francisco! Well, kinda… that strip of green right in the middle of the photograph is Golden Gate Park. You can see the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance, and the rows and rows of Lego houses right there south of the park.

Looks like Sim City! Posted by Picasa

Nice shot of Half Moon Bay (I think) through the clouds. We’re at about 2000ft at this point. Posted by Picasa

Between the last photograph and this one, I was given control of the plane and had a bit of fun flying it over the ridge towards the Pacific ocean… Talk about force feedback and high resolution graphics! Much better then any flight simulator out there!

This is a shot of the Half Moon Bay airport… You can see a bit of the propellor in the shot Posted by Picasa

A shot of SLAC and 280. We did a really tight 360 turn just to hang around over Stanford and 280 to get nice shots of the areaPosted by Picasa

So this Sunday, a coworker took me and another coworker flying around the Bay Area in his private plane!
The plane itself was a 1979 Archer Piper, single engine prop plane that seats 4. We did a little tour of the area and here are some choice photographs.

Here’s Stanford University, taken from about 3000ft in the air! You can see Hoover tower clearly 🙂 Posted by Picasa