This pilot regularly takes pictures from the cockpit. These pictures are just crazy!

Pilots get to see amazing sights from tremendous altitudes. And when you are an aviation pilot for a south american airline, you get to witness spectacular thunderstorms and lightning strikes as you fly over areas that have them.

Meet Santiago Borja Lopez - a pilot from Quito, Ecuador who works at Ecuador Airlines.

Whenever he's not on duty, he pulls out the camera and records these amazing sights high up in the sky.

From crazy storms to gleaming lightnings - the pictures he takes are simply breathtaking (click here for Santiago Borja Lopez's Instagram account).

Crazy flashes of light over the Pacific Ocean at an altitude of more than 30,000 feet

We've never seen a lightning like this

Flashes over the Atlantic Ocean

Storm over Panama City

The night sky

Magic

In the skies of Colombia

The early stages of a storm not far from Jamaica

The beaches of Venezuela

3 miles above Quito, Ecuador