Personal travel, adventure and photography blog by Thomas Jøhnk
September 2025 - What a week flying my Cessna 185 with a good friend. My first time doing instrument flying in dense clouds in US, both from controlled and unmanned airports (after my Cessna 185 has been equipped with Garmin avionics, and after I obtained my instrument ratings on my American license earlier this year).... Continue Reading →
September 2025 - I was asked by European Aircraft Sales in Odense, Denmark, if I could take a Diamond 42 from Sweden to India. What a chance, the Swedish airplane was very much like my own Diamond 42 and a tour to India was kind of a natural next step after having flown my own... Continue Reading →
July 2025 - This year I managed to fly into the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the worlds biggest fly-in and airshow with 700,000+ visitors and 10,000+ aircrafts. I flew in via the Fisk Arrival in my Cessna 185 to runway 18R. Before I flew in I studied the 20 page NOTAM very carefully. From Toronto... Continue Reading →
April 2025 - On April 10th, 2025, I departed Roskilde (EKRK) in my Diamond 42. My goal was to reach The Azores and visit as many of the islands as possible before I had to be back two weeks later where annual inspection of the airplane was due. I reached The Azores after five days... Continue Reading →
November 2024 - During summer 2024, my Cessna 185 had been upgraded with new avionics by Rite Way Aviation at David Wayne Hooks Airport (KDWH) in Houston. The new avionics included a PFD (Primary Flight Display, Garmin g3x Touch), a new GPS (Garmin GPS 175), and a new auto pilot (Garmin FFC 500). The autopilot... Continue Reading →
June 2024 - On the 3rd of June, 2024, together with my very good friend Frode, I departed from Roskilde Airport in OY-JNK, my one year old Diamond 42. Our goal was to reach and fly around in Greenland before returning to Roskilde two to three weeks later. We reached Greenland on day two after... Continue Reading →
October 2023 - I went to Houston to pick up my Cessna 185 four days before my friend Michael would arrive into Fort Lauderdale where we had agreed to meet up to tour the Bahamas for a week or so before returning to Houston. Four days to fly a small airplane from Houston to Fort... Continue Reading →
April 2023 - Together with my friend Frode Kjems Uhre i moved my Cessna 185 fra Byron (C83) near San Francisco to David Wayne Hooks Memorial (KDWH) near Houston. And in order to make a small adventure out of this, we decided to fly across Mexico from west to east. First day we flew from... Continue Reading →
August 2022 - My Cessna 185 was parked in Talkeetna, Alaska, early summer 2022, and now I had the chance to come back and fly it for a week before taking it back to California. A very good pilot friend of mine - Michael Lemvig Olsen - joined me on this trip, this was his... Continue Reading →
April 2022 - Cross Country from Houston to Seattle. Four days, Seventeen hundred nautical miles, twenty hours and twenty minutes of flight time, twelve stops. In my Cessna Skywagon. With my youngest son Troels. And finally, a few days with good friends - John and Becky - in Seattle before returning to Denmark. First time... Continue Reading →
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