Good information to know when you're on a plane

Good information to know when you're on a plane

1. If you want to see Mount Fuji, sit in the left window of the flight back from Haneda and Narita and look outside as soon as you take off.

2. If you want to see the aurora
  A. Sit in the right window of your return flight from Eastern America (Toronto/Boston/New York/Atlanta/Washington DC) at night. Look out the window about 3 1/2 hours after takeoff. (I can't see in the bright spot.)
  B. If you're on your way back from Europe (London/Paris/Amsterdam/Saint-Pégerburg/Moscow/Vienna), sit in the left window and look out the window when you pass by Saint-Pécherburg. You'll see it roughly until you pass through central Siberia.
  C. Samsung phones and LG V20 and later models have an expert mode among camera modes. Exposure time, ISO, and aperture can be set manually. You can take aurora with that.
D. Korean Air flies twice a day from New York to Incheon. You can see it if you take KE086 which departs at midnight. (Flight 082 is out of sight because the sun is up throughout the flight.)
Korean Air's return flights from Europe to Incheon mostly take off in the evening. Take a flight that takes off after sunset.

3. If you want to see Mt. Halla Baeknokdam, you should get lucky by taking a flight from Jeju to Busan/Ulsan/Pohang/Daegu. First, you should sit in the window on your left. The weather should be clear, too. If the plane takes off from the east to the west (from right to left as viewed from the waiting room at Jeju Airport), it will take a left turn along the top of Mt. Halla. Look out the window when you take off.

4. If you want to see the night view of Jeju Island, sit by the left window when you take an evening flight to Southeast Asia.

5. If you want to see Seoul from the sky, sit in the left window of a flight to Japan and the Americas. Or sit in the right window of a flight back to Gimpo or Incheon.

6. If you're going to Abu Dhabi/Dubai, sit by the left window and you'll see the Himalayas. (I don't remember exactly, but I'll see them in about five hours.)
Before that, you can also see the Cheonsan Mountain Range and the Pamir Plateau. Middle Eastern airlines are not visible because they take off from Incheon at night. Korean Air flight KE951 bound for Dubai takes off at noon and lands when the sun sets, so you can see the outside view throughout the flight. However, most of the other guests are sleeping, so keep your windows open and you'll get a glare.

7. Look out the window when you get the sign to fasten your seat belt 10,000 feet while descending toward London Heathrow. It's flying over downtown London.

8. Sit in the right window of an L.A. flight if you want to see downtown Los Angeles, and in the left window if you want to see Hollywood.

9. Sit by the left window on your way to San Francisco and you'll see Golden Gate Bridge and downtown Baybridge (about 20000 feet or less)

10. If you want to see Manhattan, you're more likely to see the left window of your flight to New York than the right window.

11. If you want to see the beautiful sea of Setonai Kai, sit by the window to the right of the flight to Kansai, Osaka.

12. You can see Mongolian grasslands and Lake Baikal two and a half hours after your flight to Europe. Depending on the route, it can be either the right window or the left window. If it's the right window, you can see it better because it's passing over Ickchuk.

13. Aurora is usually visible at 60 degrees north latitude or higher, but it is also visible at 55 degrees or higher.

14. When you return from Southeast Asia, including Hong Kong, sit by the window on the right and you can see the night view of Taiwan.

15. When you return to Busan from Southeast Asia/Hong Kong, there is a possibility that you will see Seongsan Ilchulbong Peak if you sit by the window on your left when the sun is up.

16. If you want to see Baekdusan Mountain, please sit by the window on the right when you go to Yanji and Unauthorized Market and look over the horizon after about an hour.
From the eastern part of the United States, you can see a plane coming to Incheon via the Arctic or returning from Mujang/Yenji in a window on the left and passing Harbin for about 20 minutes. It rises gently above the horizon and you can see only one flat mountain. That's Mt. Baekdu.

17. Take the flight back to Korea from Dallas, and if you're lucky, you'll see the Rocky Mountains, Denver, Seattle, Mount Rainier, and very rarely the Canadian Rocky Mountains (Banf/Jasper).

18. Look out the window when you get off and off in Paris. With a 50-50 chance, you can see downtown Paris and the Eiffel Tower.

19. There are more things to see on the right side of the flight from Jeju to Gimpo.

20. You have to give up sleep on airplanes to see these scenes, and if you keep looking outside, you'll be treated like a first-time passenger, but you don't see them every time.