Gatwick EGKK 23/02/2019

[james143611]

Well been some time since I've posted anything! I haven't actually done much aviation photography since Berlin, and the ones I have done I haven't touched yet, a combination of time and wandering what to do with my Flickr accounts, as I have one for aviation and another for trains/buses/boats. I've decided to get a Flickr Pro account for the latter and will now put my aviation pics on there too which saves paying for two sites.

I took my first spotting trip to Gatwick on Saturday (with thanks to PorkScratching for helping with my queries) as I've been wanting to do it for some time. I've logged some numbers there before when going up and down on Gatwick Express trains but not properly spending a day doing numbers/photo's.

I know there are Gatwick photo's from that day on here already and I hope you don't mind me 'duplicating' as such, to be honest mine aren't as good, I really need to invest in a 55-200mm lens, I had my 70-300 lens on which was fine, but too much for the heavies and couldn't get side shot's of them, so I put my 18-55 lens on which made it a bit easier, but was too small for the A320's, and couldn't get the nice zoom shot's on them. The photo's of these are cropped down which takes out the quality but hey-ho.

Naturally as a first visit (maybe it's just me though!) I took photo's of just about everything, though mostly because I am trying to get pictures of all G- registered airliners (so not GA's or Bizjets). So sorry for boring you with some of the normal stuff.

I had a great day out though, cleared all my last remaining BA Gatwick based stuff (G-VIIT, G-DBCC, G-DBCF which took me all day to get, G-GATM and G-GATR). Also got a fair amount of new serials, and managed to cop Royal Jet 737-700 A6-DFR OTT


Anyway I haven't gone through them all yet, so this is the first set, and I'll post the others on here when I do them:

Flight U2892 from Jersey

G-EZBH by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight D8550 from Barcelona

Norwegian EI-FHP by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight U28465 from Geneva

Easyjet OE-IVU by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight DI7058 from Orlando

G-CKWN by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight MT2609 from Cape Town

G-TCXB by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight MT1047 from Innsbruck

G-TCVD by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight WS1 from Calgary

WestJet C-FOGJ by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight BA8619 from Grenoble

G-GATK by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight ZT772 from Grenoble

G-POWK by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight EK15 from Dubai

A6-EUU by tubemad, on Flickr

Emirates A6-EUU by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight EI232 from Dublin

Aer Lingus EI-DEO by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight KM116 from Luqa

Air Malta 9H-AEO by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight A34220 from Heraklion

Agean Airlines SX-DGL by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight PS111 from Kiev

Ukraine International UR-PSW by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight VS16 from Orlando

G-VROS by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight U28942 from Grenoble

G-UZHI by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight QR327 from Doha

Qatar Airways A7-BCP by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight MT1469 from Grenoble

Condor D-ATCB by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight VK4050 from Vienna

Level Austria OE-LCP by tubemad, on Flickr

Level Austria OE-LCP by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight FI470 from Reykjavik, diverted it seems via Manchester

Icelandair TF-ICU by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight ZT884 from Chambery

G-ZAPX by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight BE803 from Newquay

G-FBEI by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight TP1334 from Porto

TAP Air Portugal CS-TTE by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight BY4657 from Innsbruck

G-OOBA by tubemad, on Flickr

Flight BY4687 from Salzburg

G-TUMA by tubemad, on Flickr


C&C Welcome!

James.

[Martin]

A great selection, I do think the Level colour scheme is a bit boring and unimaginative.

Martin

[Wallie]

A great set of photos. Nice !!

[GCIJem]

Nice set of pics

[wiggy]

I really need to invest in a 55-200mm lens, I had my 70-300 lens on which was fine, but too much for the heavies and couldn't get side shot's of them, so I put my 18-55 lens on which made it a bit easier, but was too small for the A320's, and couldn't get the nice zoom shot's on them.

The other option would be to invest in a second camera body and put your existing lenses on them permanently. This not only saves the inconvenience of having to change lenses (sometimes under time pressure) at busy airports but also reduces the opportunity for dust to reach the sensor area. I did this about 7 years ago and would thoroughly recommend it.

Nice shots from LGW.

Denis.