very nice as always Claudio, I hope to be there again before long. It's my grandson's birthday in March so plan to visit then

Ciao
Andy

the voting has closed in this competition and these are the results: This month's winner was LondonEye (Pete) with AS350B HB-XSU at Zermatt, Switzerland in 2009 and we had joint runners-up (or is that runner-ups?) Cessna954 (Neil) with a Ryanair B737-800 landing at an extremely cold and snow covered...

A very sad day , finally runs down the curtain and gone to meet 'is maker.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197

my favourite line : He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy.

RIP and thank you for all those laughs

here's mine - Retro scheme of the year? G-BNLY B.747 British Airways painted in the Landor retro scheme, departing Heathrow on runway 27R on 2nd December.. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49174624353_9f8bdb9249_h.jpg G-BNLY B.747 British Airways (Landor retro) Heathrow 02-12-2019 6032c by Andrew...

I spent a cold and sometimes damp and sometimes persistently raining day at Heathrow last Thursday, here are some of my efforts mainly from the football ground but I did walk round to Myrtle Avenue for an hour or so for a change of scenery.... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49415187062_7d7d72a7...

It normally visits weekly Wallie and sometimes twice. Occasionally they use one of the KLM 747-Fs instead but this is the regular one
HTH
Andy

I spent a few hours at Stansted today where some nice visitors were present for a UK / African trade conference. Lots of enthusiasts from far and wide about to log and/or photograph the exotic subjects and I bumped into a few familiar faces, here's a selection starting with the African contingent th...

I found the Dash 8 shot interesting. The prop blur and lighting look good, just a pity any zooming in doesn’t really work. Pity also that there are not more opportunities to experiment with turboprops in the dark. I think London City still have a few and there probably plenty of background light to...

thanks Nick, I've hardly ever dabbled in NR techniques so that's another steep learning curve for me to investigate. This was all a bit of an experiment and I really didn't know what to expect from the results. I actually used a set speed of 1/100th to try to eliminate as much movement as I could as...

I was at Heathrow all day yesterday until around 7pm as I had offered (who's surprised?) to collect my neighbour off SQ318 after her flight back from Oz. When it got dark I played around experimenting with night shots under the 277L approach on Hatton Road, hadn't tried it before so the results were...

thanks for the help guys

In the end it was 27s all day. In fact they were landing on 27L right through until 7pm rather than switching to 27R at the usual 3pm. don't know the reason but it made things easier for me. I'm guessing it was an issue with the ILS gear on 27R ut that IS only a guess.

This is the SPOTM (Special Photo Of The Month) competition for January 2020 and the subject is ANY airliner photographed in 2019 which has not won or been 2nd or 3rd in either photo comp, i.e. not already in the hall of fame. The subject of your entry should be a photo of one or more civil registere...

these are the winners of the December 2019 SPOTM, the subject was Winter wonderland, aircraft photographed in snow or ice This month's winner was LondonEye (Pete) with AS350B HB-XSU at Zermatt, Switzerland in 2009 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49332659958_21b45728c3_b.jpg Swiss 2009 113 and we...

many thanks Nick, that helps no end. Hopefully I can keep a step ahead of any changes.
I think I can understand the maths of the components- I can vaguely remember my trigonometry and cosines etc!

Andy

I can usually work it out with a good degree of certainty but it look so marginal I can't be sure. My best guess is 09s from around 10am until 3pm but I'm nowhere near certain. As a 'suits all options' I will probably end up at the football club so I have my car there and if they are on 09s I can ge...

I shall when I get off the M25 if I can't see them departing/landing anyway. I just want to have a cunning plan ready.

a bit of an odd question for those who understand the runway alternations system and how wind affects it please..... I'm going to Heathrow tomorrow for the day as I'm picking up my neighbour off SIA318 around 7pm. The runway alternation schedule says landing 27L until 3pm assuming wind is suitable. ...

very nice Paul, that Air Baltic is a colourful scheme!

Andy

This is the voting poll for the December 2019 Special Photo Of The Month competition, the subject was ‘Winter wonderland – aircraft in snow and/or ice ‘ Thank you to everybody who submitted entries - we had 12 entries of a very high standard. The poll is open to all registered members but you must b...

entries for this competition are now closed and the topic locked.

I have set up the poll here viewtopic.php?f=110&t=34364 so please support the competition by voting for your 3 favourites

thank you to everybody who has entered
Andy