This is mainly City photo's, I only have 1 shot to share from Stansted that I feel didn't really warrant a separate thread!
Both these visit's were recce runs. Me and my friend popped into Stansted on the way back from Lakenheath and Mildenhall on Friday 9th March. It was very cold, wet but we still went round to see what the viewing spot at Belmer Road was like.
Due to the fence, it looked like you had to walk further up to get approach shots over the fence. I know I'm hardcore and I'd have done it but it was a stop over and there wasn't much out of the ordinary coming in, but I reckon on a nice day it would be a great day out.
There wasn't much going on apart from a load of stuff in a holding pattern and nothing departing. Eventually stuff started to taxi and everything from the holding loops piled in. I stood out in the cold rain and waited for this TUI 737 D-ABMQ, ex-Berlin but still in their colours. This is more of a record shot if anything!
On the following day, Saturday 10th March, before heading home west, I spent the morning at London City Airport until shut down at 1230. Another reccy run as I've not been here before, and being a cloudy day I could pick various points to try.
I tried the spot at the Long Stay car park and was approached by a LCY security guy, who was actually really friendly and pointed out that on the other side you get great views of the apron. Credit also to one of the airport managers who helped to direct me on how to walk to the other side.
I've seen video's of planes landing/taking off, but it's something else being there in the flesh, some of those rotations are just ridiculous! A couple of Embraers took off like they were fighter jets! Mind you, the Hawker 800 CS-DRZ was just epic, didn't realise they are quite noisy for a biz jet, then it shot off down the run way and went up like it was an F-16, rotation to the clouds within 5 seconds, madness!
Anyway here's some pictures for now, I will add more on here soon. I am slowly going through my pictures. I enjoyed it so much I took pictures of everything
Eastern Airways G-CERY Saab 2000
Swiss HB-JBD Bombardier CS100
BA City G-LCYN Embraer ERJ-190
KLM Cityhopper PH-EZV Embraer ERJ-190
PH-EZV with a matching KLM boat
PGA Portugalia CS-TPS Embraer ERJ-190
Cityjet EI-RJU Avro RJ85
GlobeAir OE-FZB Cessna 510 Citation
NetJets CS-DRZ - Hawker 800XPi
C&C welcome!
More to come soon
