Flying Revue Expeditions history

The Flying Revue flight expeditions have by now covered all continents with the exception of Antarctica i.e. all of Europe including Russia, USA including Alaska, Canada, the Caribbean Islands, northern and southern Africa including Namib, Kalahari and Sahara deserts, Australia and New Zealand, Russia, Greenland and Iceland. Mountains, glaciers, volcanos, deserts, airports, cities, lighthouses, castles, fortresses – all of these and more have become the focus of flying over, photographing and filming. The Flying Revue expedition pilot Jiri Prusa takes pride in sharing the beauty of the world with others through hundreds of photos, dozens of videos, several TV documentaries and several publications including glossy English language ones – By small plane to Greenland and To the limit. You can buy these via Amazon using the following links:

TO THE LIMIT - Purchase here

Unique publication as it describes details of several critical situations Jiri has encountered including an accident in Iceland, a nerve-wracking landing in Israel, a near-miss with a tree in stormy weather in Bulgaria, and a 14 hour non-stop flight from the northernmost point of Norway to Brač island in Croatia. These and more.

BY SMALL PLANE TO GREENLAND - Purchase here 

The publication “By small plane to Greenland” contains spectacular aerial photos of Greenland (and Iceland since it’s on the way).   It will help readers understand the complexity and challenges of flying a small aircraft over freezing waters and snow-covered mountains while introducing images of the vastness and unmatched beauty of this the largest island in the world. “By small plane to Greenland” is also a publication for anyone wanting to understand this beautiful yet uncompromising part of the world.

Jiri is not a professional pilot but he has been flying on gliders since his age of fifteen. When his native Czech Republic joined EU and then Schengen area in 2004 he started dreaming about flying over other parts of the world.  In 2005 he therefore gained a microlight licence, then in 2006 he started flying on paragliders and in 2007 went to the USA to qualify for a PPL. In 2008 he flew his first expedition over Texas and Louisiana on a rented C-172. This was followed in 2009 by a flight expedition around South Africa, again in a rented C-172. In 2010 he bought a Cirrus SR-20 aircraft and flew it from Duluth to Miami. The same year he flew from Johannesburg over Kalahari desert and Okawango delta in Botswana to Victoria Falls in Zambia and back via Namibia and the Namib desert. A lot of flying to various countries all over Europe in his SR20 followed.

When Jiri sold his SR20 in 2013, he decided to buy a two seater LSA aircraft Dynamic which has flight characteristics similar to a glider. At the same time, together with his friend – Miloš Dermišek, he bought licence for publishing the aviation magazine Flying Revue. This move set off a wholly new era of systematic photo and video coverage of the world seen from a small aircraft. Jiri´s Dynamic got equipped with outside holders of video cameras, an inside stand for a photo camera and several other improvements changing the aircraft into a flying journalist´s workplace.

Jiri begun to fly the flight expeditions using the especially equipped Dynamic in 2014 with the expedition European Islands from the skies. In over 50 flight days, 250 flight hours and about 50 000 kilometres he flew over the main islands in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands and Madeira. This flight experience was in subsequent years followed by flights over the Caribbean Islands, around USA, around Australia, and then Alaska, New Zealand, Sahara, Morocco/Maruitania/Senegal, Turkey, Russia, over the Alps and Pyrenees, Greenland and Iceland. He currently also holds a FAI distance flight microlight record covering 1915 km without landing with a crew of two jointly with Eliška Kudějová.

Airport colleaction by Jiri Prusa

A few samples of Flying Revue expeditions

To give you a feeling of the Flying Revue expeditions here you can find records of our online reports from several of our expeditions.