A few from the air

[Highlandsniper]

Cessna F406 G-TWIG


Ardersier rig construction yard (E. of Inverness Airport)


The Beatrice Oil Field


The Cromarty Firth (Oil Rig maintainance etc.


Approach to Kirkwall


Orkney - Scapa Flow


Sumburgh Head lighthouse


Approach to Sumburgh Rwy 27


Tarbet Ness Lighthouse


On Approach to Sumburgh Rwy 33



Jetstream 31 G-JURA


Approach to Inverness Rwy 23

[phoenixegmh]

Some very nice shots there!

[MikeB]

Very interesting photos, thanks for posting!

[Mike]

Great shots,I hope you did a go-around for runway 33 at Sumburgh ???

[Highlandsniper]

Certainly did - both approaches at Sumburgh are interesting to put it mildly. The ones to 33 were in the J.31 and flown purely as a photographic observer, but I flew two approaches to 27 myself in the F406. I wouldn't want to land there with brake problems or have to abort a take-off a la Dan-Air 748.

I've got a CD of aerial shots of the Western Isles including Stornoway and Benbecula from Highland Airways inaugural Inverness-Stornoway-Benbecula service, I'll post those when I can locate it.

[Mike]

O 5hit,I remember the Dan-air 748 disaster,not nice

[Highlandsniper]

Must be nearly thirty years or there abouts. I joined Customs & Excise in 1982 and it was before then.

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31 July 1979 - Dan-Air Flight 0034