Every year we escape the Xmas & winter blues, by going on holiday to Goa. Obviously this presents an opportunity for a bit of spotting too.
I will spare you the long and sordid tale,the gist of which is we had to get from the international terminal to the domestic terminal in pretty short order,
so I didn't bother with pics. On arrival at the domestic terminal, our flight was delayed 1 hour and there wasn't much of a view out of the windows.
All VT- .... SCR , WAI , STG , JBF , SPI , WAJ , INJ , JBC , ALA , EJH , JGM , JBK , SIZ , AYB , PPJ , SPH , SIV , IND , AXG , SCN , EJE , EJK , VJL , JGV , JEH , PPD, and interloper 4X EAP.
We boarded VT SIZ about 10 minutes before the in-laws who were booked on the 14.35 Jet Airways flight.Goa is a mixed military/civil airfield, on the ground were Il 38's ? 08, 01, 06 and 09, and on the civil apron VT INP.
In the middle of 2009 I bought an SBS which I took with us, the idea being, from the apartment we can see the departures, but they weren't close enough to get, The SBS I hoped was going to remedy this.
They depart GOI and pass us about 4/5000 ft and a mile off to the right. So I set the compass at 90degrees to the balcony, set the GPS next to it and with the laptop open at 'Visual GPS' i got a long/lat, which I set the SBS to.
Aerial on the balcony rail and I was all set.
Being a 'holiday destination' its charters/military in the mornings, domestics in the afternoons and military playtime evenings, and this is by no means a complete rundown..
Sun 27th Dec, All VT
DKU , INS , KFK , SJG , SGC , JBG , KFD , INO , WAJ , WAH , KFG , SPU and SCB.
Mon 28th Dec all VT
KFB , WAG , WAL , SJJ , SCV , INS , PPE , PPL and SPU.
Tues 29th Dec all VT Except A6 RJI.
WAH , VDD , INB , SPR , SCK , JGY , KFR , KFF , JNW , INC and SGC
Wed 30th Dec all VT except VQ BBT(Transaero flight), Wed/Thurand Sun are Russian charter days.
PPO , INS , INI , SJE , WAL , PPB , KFC , IND and WAJ
Thur 31st Dec all VT except VP BQE , G OOBM ,
JNE , ACD , INC , PPK , INL , WAJ , KFF , SPO , SCB , SGC , EVB , SPU and SJJ .
The new year continued in much the same vein, so I'll just add the non VT's
1st Jan 4R ADF (diversion ?)
2nd Jan VQ BJK.
3rd Jan 4R ABG , G DBLA.
6th Jan.VQ BEM .
7th Jan. RA 96015 ,
8th Jan G MONR , 4R ABJ ,
9th Jan VQ BBT , G EOMA , VQ BJK.
10th G OOAN , G EOMA .
11th YL LCE
12th G PJLO .
13th VQ BBT.
15th G PJLO
16th VQ BAL ,
18TH VP BQC , VQ BAL.
21st VP BGY , G PJLO ,
22nd was go home day, so taxi to the airport where VT WAF was waiting.
Then a Kingfisher ATR, closely followed by our Jet Airways 737.
Log for Mumbai 22nd Jan all VT except, HL 7222 , N856NW and EP IAB.
EPF , BDN , EYG , EYH , AXW , PPQ , JEH , JBP , JBL , JCK , AIK , VJL , JBD , JBB , IWB , PPA . JCN and JGW.
The biz jet apron I counted 31 jets + Beechcraft + helicopters !
You can see some of the notorious 'shacks' behind !
The queue for departure.
Bombay's other airport Juhu.
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Holiday to Goa
Holiday to Goa
I got a little black book with me poems in
Re: Holiday to Goa
Just for the sake of completeness, the father in law took this, up at the helipad on 1st Jan.
I didn't go up so missed it.
No I don't know why he didn't get the whole a/c in
I didn't go up so missed it.
No I don't know why he didn't get the whole a/c in
I got a little black book with me poems in
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