I just looked again at the About Us page and noticed a funny thing: At places like this Mike spends his hot summer nights. That's the title of one of the songs on the Top Gun Soundtrack, was that intentional or just a funny coincidence?
Fireflyr, you aint kidding, my mom and I had finished the last grocery shopping for this week and had an hour to spend until the ferry sailed home so I decided to take a quick trip to Roskilde Airport. A few kms before the airport the two lanes of the highway merges to one and we were a full lane on the right and cars still overtaking close to the mergepoint, then a small Honda SUV squeesed in front of us and a big Ford Transit rental-van (meaning probably not a skilled van-driver driving) did the same behind us but before they were more than half-way in our lane, the 3rd of 4th car ahead slowed down on the righthand lane to a near full stop since there's no hard-shoulder but marker-posts but since we were so tight, and sadly squeezed together at both ends we had to stand hard on the brakes but thanks to van right behind us I had to release a bit to make I didn't any faster than absolutely needed since the van was even closer behind than the suv was in front of us! The headlights of the van are above the bottom edge of the rear-window so with one eye I saw that big right-hand headlight and in front us the back end of the suv, that was some fast and very precise stopping there to avoid both rear-ending another car, and getting rear-ended. From sailing on the ferry I can say that the van was at most 3 1/2 ft from our bumper, with a initial speed of 80 kph, and actually both cars merged a bit before the actual lanes merged but with cars already behind and in front I couldn't do much about re-establishing a safety distance, but I managed to brake presicely as much as needed and it didn't seem anyone got hit, but man that's the closest and biggest call yet in my driving career that'll soon hit the 10 year mark.
And then at the airport seeing a Seneca (I think), a Piper single and a Tomahawk too I think taking off from the airport And just turning at the parkinglot and seeing a Tomahawk and a Tobaco on the grass-strip and two other Piper single's and a Skyhawk the hangar-space on the other side, and another more modern low-wing single taking off and swerving directly over the car when we drove back towards the highway, man those pilots that flew today in the reasonably nice VFR conditions were so lucky!
I think Leo said it best:
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
— Leonardo da Vinci
If anyone is going to EKRK then please tell me, even just to say hi and let me get a chance to just stand near a plane again, that would be great. Man I wish I was in California, but maybe someday, I'm still young, the say.
Frank
P.S. I tried re-writting the incident-report several times to make it as concise as possible.
