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Yes, I love looking down and trying to figure out where we are. I wish GPS on my phone would work on that ( any suggestions?).
I think the GPS should work. It's Global Positioning Satellites which are still reachable from 30K feet in a plane. What's probably not working is your cellphone trying to retrieve the map data from Google. The solution is to download the offline maps beforehand through the google maps app for the areas you expect to be.
I'm still a sightseer, unless its just clouds or ocean.
My favorite view was a sunlit look at that huge glacier in Greenland calving all those icebergs. I looked around the plane, all dark -- everyone's shades were closed, I was the only passenger who saw this amazing sight.
My favorite views are the gauges reading "normal."
I'll lookout the windows to verify my attitude, but that's about it. (Unless I'm landing ILS approach.)
I've been flying for about fifty years and I still try to get a window seat. I bring something to read but if it's clear I spend nearly all of the flight looking out the window.
My regular flight once or twice a year is from MSP to CUN which nearly follows the Mississippi and over the Gulf of Mexico. I've driven that U.S. route enough times to recognize many landmarks and sometimes even some towns.
My favorite parts are over Louisiana especially the delta and when the very deep blue ocean turns to turquoise. Then over the jungle spotting cenotes.
Once flying into Cancun in the light rain I was treated to a circular rainbow under the plane.
I distinctly remember flying into MSP from SeaTac at Christmas time many years ago during a light snow fall and many of the homes below us having their Christmas lights on. It was beautiful. Coming home is always beautiful.
On a transatlanict, with only clouds, I chanced to look down and see another airliner going the other way way. Apparent relative speed, 1200 mph, perfectly silent. A very eerie feeling.
First flight I remember seeing anything impressive was the sunlitearly-morning Greek islands. I thought they looked like pieces of gold jewelry in a blue velvet case.
I flew over thee Alps on a rainy overcast day, but the higher peaks were poking out of the cottony clouds, up into the sunlight, nearly at eye level. Another mountain view was the Bolivian Andes almost at sunset, with all the peaks sunlit on one side and dark on the other. It was terrifying to imagine being down there in that inhospitable terrain.
Biggest disappointment -- Norwegian fjords, which look flat from the air.
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Do you look out the window when you fly?
