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 →
May 2025 - A stationary high pressure weather system was forecast to settle over the Faroes for three days around middle of May. So my aviation and hangar body Martin Wilstrup and I decided to fly there and enjoy what turned out to be almost three days of complete cloudlessness, a really rare phenomenon for... 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 →
March 2025 - I do a yearly trip with my parents and this year I went on safari in Botswana and Zimbabwe. And saw the amazing Viktoria Falls on the way. When traveling, I most often do all the planning myself, this time I had Eva Hellemose from Fair Track Safari do all the planning... Continue Reading →
February 2025 - Together with a very close friend of mine I spent nearly one month away from Denmark, more precisely: 3 days in San Francisco (as stop overs on the way out and back home). 3 days in Tahiti (two days upon arrival and then a one day stop over on the way home).... Continue Reading →
December 2024 - After exactly two years I returned to San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile to climb more volcanoes. I started with four days in Bolivia to acclimatize. After returning to San Pedro I climbed three volcanoes, two of them being higher than 6,000 meters: 6,046 meters / 19,836 feet high Volcán Acamarachi (also known... 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 →
October 2024 - Together with my youngest son Troels I hiked Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim. That is, I crossed the Grand Canyon from the North Rim to the South Rim, and after a rest day, we hiked back to the North Rim. In all we hiked 85 kilometers, gained 3,800 meters of... Continue Reading →
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