tinek6 HD aviation: Air Koryo Mi-17

I wake up. A morning like many others. At a first glance there is nothing spectacular about it. But wait! I look out of the window and the same view comes to my eyes, the sight of Pyongyang city. The day has come. The day that most of us anticipated most. The day of flights. The day that I am going to hop on 5 flights, on 4 different planes, all of them being my first time. The Ilyushin 76, Ilyushin 62, Tupolev 154 and the Mi-17 helicopter. The 18th day of September 2014. A date I surely will remember, not only for the reasons stated above ;)

This was the last flight scheduled for me this day. After a tiring morning with four flights included and a lunch our group has been transported to a pair of helicopters (a Mi-17 [867] and a Mi-8 [847]) at Pyongyang Airport. We have been previously divided into smaller groups two of which were to fly today and the other two would return the next day back to Pyongyang while we would take the roads in our coach. I've been designated to fly on the 867. Inside: a side couch, a table, an air conditioner, a clock and two big chairs with a floor made to look like wood. The second helicopter (with which we have had a short 'A2A' session during the flight) was slightly different inside. It included a greenish carpet with flowers, kinda kitschy IMO.
We were headed for the Myohyang mountains. Landing somewhere in the area of Hyangsan. After deboarding we all could take pictures from basically any angle of both flying machines. Additionally the scenery is in the region very spectacular, truly breathtaking. Well I've got no words to describe it. It took mine away. Together with the weather it made up a fabulous setting for any session, let it be a Mi-17.