These amazing photos that were taken from an airplane cockpit show us what pilots see from above. And the view is simply breathtaking. A pilot from the Netherlands Christiaan van Heijst and his friend Daan Krans run a website called Amazing Aviation where they post flight-deck images. The images below were captured above Toronto, India and China.

Chris Manno is a pilot who decided to give us mere mortals a taste of what he sees everyday outside his cockpit window with this narrated picture story of a trip between Dallas and Seattle.

If you’ve ever wondered what the cockpit of a monster truck, spy jet, cruise ship, rocket car, commercial airliner, or submarine looked like, these photos should help you out. While they are quite different they all have one thing in common: They are all business.