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:

Pilot’s Operating Handbook

Incidentally, this is the same plane that had an emergency landing in Watsonville a few years later in 2022. My friend was neither piloting nor on board the plane at the time of the incident.

The Cessna 172M.

Moffett Federal Airfield.

The Googleplex.

Facebook headquarters.

Salt evaporation ponds.

San Francisco International Airport.

The Mission district in San Francisco. In the middle you can see the headquarters of Ouster, where I used to work.

Skyline of San Francisco.

Golden Gate Bridge.

Golden Gate Bridge.

Golden Gate Bridge.

Alcatraz Island with San Francisco in the background.

Alcatraz.

Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill.

Downtown San Francisco.

Downtown San Francisco but now with a more vintage postprocessing.

Bernal Hill.

Emirates Airbus A380 and British Airways 747 on the tarmac at SFO.

Stanford University.

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. — 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.

NVIDIA Endeavor building, before the new Voyager building was built.