Flight on a friend's Cessna (2018)
2025-11-10
On 2018-04-14, I rode with my friend Yan on his Cessna 172M. Since he hadn’t flown for a while, he had to take off and land a couple of times before I could get on. How exciting!
Here’s the Pilot’s Operating Handbook for the plane:
Incidentally, this is the same plane that had an emergency landing in Watsonville a few years later in 2022. My friend was not piloting nor on board the plane at the time of the incident.
FIGURE 1 The Cessna 172M.
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FIGURE 2 Moffett Federal Airfield.
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FIGURE 3 The Googleplex.
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FIGURE 4 Facebook headquarters.
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FIGURE 5 Salt evaporation ponds.
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FIGURE 6 San Francisco International Airport.
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FIGURE 7 The Mission district in San Francisco. In the middle you can see the headquarters of Ouster, where I used to work.
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FIGURE 8 Skyline of San Francisco.
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FIGURE 9 Golden Gate Bridge.
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FIGURE 10 Golden Gate Bridge.
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FIGURE 11 Golden Gate Bridge.
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FIGURE 12 Alcatraz Island with San Francisco in the background.
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FIGURE 13 Alcatraz.
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FIGURE 14 Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill.
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FIGURE 15 Downtown San Francisco.
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FIGURE 16 Downtown San Francisco but now with a more vintage postprocessing.
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FIGURE 17 Bernal Hill.
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FIGURE 18 Emirates Airbus A380 and British Airways 747 on the tarmac at SFO.
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FIGURE 19 Stanford University.
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FIGURE 20 Apple Park. This photo is, as of writing, the lead photo on the Apple Inc. Wikipedia article and is therefore one of the most famous photos I’ve taken.
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FIGURE 21 NVIDIA Endeavor building, before the new Voyager building was built.
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