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The view: Looking west toward Santa Cruz, at the north end of Monterey Bay
The pilot: Bryan Lee
The photographer: David Dickins
The airplane: Cessna 172P
The mission: Monterey (MRY) to Palo Alto (PAO) for business and lunch.
The memory: The low sun angle illuminating the ocean swell and surface wind waves in fine detail—flying home at the end of a beautiful day. We take turns with one flying outbound and the other back. I was lucky to have the right seat for this shot. To me this photo is reminder of why I love flying, purely for the opportunity to see the world in a different way.
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David learned to fly on a tailwheel Fleet Canuck in Canada in 1966. After a 38-year time-out for family and work, he returned to flying in 2009 in San Diego. Since then David has logged over 550 hours with a mix of Cessnas, Pipers and LSAs. He currently co-owns a 1964 Cessna 150E based in Monterey. During his arctic career, David experienced the challenges and risks of extreme bush flying in some of the most remote regions of the planet from the cockpits of a wide variety of chartered aircraft and helicopters.
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I fly out of Watsonville and have lived in the area my whole life, great to see how spotlighted. Nice looking shot as well.