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Post by davidallum on Jan 22, 2016 16:24:28 GMT
The weather here has been crap all day except for the last hour where we now have clear skies which has enabled one biz to enter the log book:
N651CH Gulfstream 650 (trailing east-west @ FL400)
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Post by denwil189 on Jan 22, 2016 17:12:40 GMT
Only one today after clouds cleared mid-afternoon:- EC-LZX A330-302E MAD-LHR 16.35 another gap filler
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Post by RayG on Jan 22, 2016 17:41:28 GMT
Very wet yesterday in Cornwall so a nil return. Brightened this morning around 10'ish and then varying levels of cloud for the rest of the day. Just one hit the book N700CK Boeing 747.
Graham - yes it is good living in Cornwall and I did see the Il96 but had already seen it in Paris. We see a lot of unusual trails heading for Europe which you guys further East don't see. However, on the negative side, we don't get the volume of traffic that you do. Not to bad for me as our two sons live in Fleet and Frimley so we try to get up country as much as we can - another grandchild due in two weeks time so will be up in early February.
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Post by davidallum on Jan 22, 2016 17:49:11 GMT
Two more biz logged in the failing light:
OK-XLS Citation 560XLS (outbound Farnborough) N71GE Gulfstream 4SP (followed the same track and height as N651CH earlier)
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Post by graham on Jan 22, 2016 18:41:36 GMT
I didn't live as far west as you Ray, I was in Polperro and I wasn't spotting during those years anyway. But I get down there once every 5-6 weeks for work and weather permitting, I usually make a few OTTs.
A good day today once the weather sorted itself out, made 11 putting me on 203 for January, best start to the year for ages and still 9 days to go
VQ-BIA B744 ABC N1905W GLF5 98-6006 C-32B OD-EAS H25B ZZ517 WCAT N44SF CL60 ZB692 GAZL N615CH GLF6 N71GE GLF4 LX-JFN PC12 N624N GLF5
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Post by christoff on Jan 22, 2016 19:04:15 GMT
After a thorough soaking at work this morning,the clouds rolled away leaving a couple of hours spotting to be done resulting in four gracing the book.
G-COBS DA42 CLB28 N44SF CL60 LFSB-.... N651CH GLF6 LSZH-... G-FBKE C510 BKK5E EHAM-....
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Post by jerryrowe on Jan 22, 2016 20:50:32 GMT
Cloud didn't clear here until around 16.00. 3 for me today, N651CH Gulf 650 (looks like everyone saw this!), 9H-VFD CL.605 inbound Northolt and N462MK Gulf 550. Needed A330 9K-APE is in LHR, due out tomorrow around 10.30, will be looking for it.
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Post by jerryrowe on Jan 22, 2016 21:35:58 GMT
Graham, Ray
I lived in Cornwall from 1976 to 1979, in Penzance, I was boss of the local tax office! I was spotting at the time (not much else to do there in the winter!) but this was long before FR24 etc, for overflights I relied on a basic airband radio. MAC C141s and C5s were easy as they used the registration as callsign, calling eastbound at 50N08W and Lands End, and westbound at Ibsley, and so did most bizjets, but for civil airliners I had to rely on magazines such as Air Pictorial which had some tie-ups. However Lufthansa Operations had a phone line which would give registrations on a daily basis, so made their fleet of 747-230s quite quickly.
Unfortunately my log of US military did not survive the period when I gave up spotting, I had at least 90% of the C141 Atlantic fleet and 50% of the Pacific fleet and about 75% of the C5s (of course, more were built in the 1980s). Hardly see any now, the C141s are mainly at AMARC and the C5s though still operational avoid the London area like the plague!
Nice to reminisce!
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Post by graham on Jan 22, 2016 21:45:45 GMT
Absolutely Jerry!! I used to visit Penzance for work once a fortnight between 79 and 86 so who knows, we may well have walked past one another in Market Jew St?
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Post by smudger98 on Jan 23, 2016 8:57:38 GMT
Slow start to the day..
G-FLSX F2000 FAB inbound @ 0855 D-BJKP E550 FAB inbound o/head Woking @ 0940 (low cloud so missed it..!!)
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Post by jerryrowe on Jan 23, 2016 11:13:40 GMT
Clearish early, enabled me to make N3788B Gulf 550 inbound LTN, but now low cloud and drizzle, have already missed 3 needed airliners, 9K-APE A330 and SP-LIA E170 out of LHR and PH-BHA 789 returning to AMS from Rio.
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Post by davebasing on Jan 23, 2016 11:52:39 GMT
Re Jerry's post on the C141s, there are now none left in AMARC. The last one (66-0160) left for the scrappie on 10 May 2013 having been the sole example left in AMARC since early 2012. Had assumed that it was destined for preservation on the AMARC Celebrity Row but unusually they did not preserve any of them. With none left in service and with the space they took up in AMARC they were mostly scrapped fairly quickly. The lingering of 66-0160 was probably due to its having been the subject of a chemical warfare test at DM where it was apparently sprayed with all sorts of nasties and probably took a long time to de-contaminate. So just a few preserved examples of this once common aircraft (I managed to see 276 of them, plus the civil demonstrator) left in the States. The crews had a love/hate relationship with the type, typified by a video done at McChord with the theme song "Its a piece of crap plane". There is a memorial off Thorney Dyke Road to the 18 crew of the Lifter (67-0006) that crashed inbound to Mildenhall on 28 August 1976 when struck by lightning.
For old times sake I'll dig out some of my Lifter shots this weekend (for a new thread) including those from AMARC and some sad ones in the adjacent scrappies.
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Post by graham on Jan 23, 2016 12:26:45 GMT
Looking forward to that Dave, thank you
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Post by jerryrowe on Jan 23, 2016 21:00:01 GMT
Just a few breaks in the cloud - one to add, N898NC G650 inbound LTN.
N904FR A319 of Frontier is currently (20.58) inbound SNN, will be interesting to see where it continues to.
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Post by christoff on Jan 23, 2016 22:07:45 GMT
Only two hitting the books today in the form of:
G-MANO ATP NPT546P EGJB-.... N3788B GLF5 EGLF-....
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Post by graham on Jan 24, 2016 9:39:23 GMT
A couple of nice European fleets gap fillers yesterday plus three biz
CS-TTP A319 TAP N905T GLEX D-CAWX C680 OE-LDD A319 N999YY GLEX
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Post by graham on Jan 25, 2016 6:47:29 GMT
Plane Plotter and FR24 showing Aegean A320 SX-DVG heading for Shannon from Athens, just leaving west Wales coast timed at 0646
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Post by Dylan on Jan 25, 2016 15:36:32 GMT
Just made OO-VLJ of VLM out of SOU. Went to Bristol, The Helicopter Museum in Weston-Super-Mare and Kemble on Saturday.
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Post by graham on Jan 25, 2016 15:53:06 GMT
You'll enjoy the Weston museum Dylan, I haven't visited for a few years but it's well worth it. Possibly a few newbies in Kemble since your last visit.
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Post by christoff on Jan 25, 2016 21:22:09 GMT
The morning presented the best of today's weather with Three making the pages and One local for the afternoon.
N45956 B789 UAL46 KIAH-EDDF G-VOWS B789 VIR6J KMIA-EGLL A6-EOT A380 UAE206 KJFK-LIMC G-CPAS EC35 UKP037 (This was here to monitor a major fire in Cowes I O W and seemed a long way from home)
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Post by jerryrowe on Jan 25, 2016 22:03:03 GMT
After a blank day yesterday, mainly cloudy again today but did manage two, OH-LQD A340 outbound LHR on the AY832 and VP-CSG F.7X.
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Post by graham on Jan 26, 2016 8:07:13 GMT
After the weather cleared up, it was another good day. Made nine including G-TCXB at long last
N551TG GLF5 A6-EOT A380 G-TCXB A330 TC-LJD B777 EC-MFM A320 N747AE GLF5 EC-KCA GALX HA-LYP A320 N3CP GLF6
I missed the Kuwaiti C130 which went into BZZ but am hopeful of seeing it on its departure, assuming it didn't leave during the night
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Post by jerryrowe on Jan 26, 2016 9:26:06 GMT
Is there a French ATC strike today? Some unusual routings over UK airspace, not that I can see them as it's cloudy here at the moment!
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Post by graham on Jan 26, 2016 11:56:22 GMT
Looks like it Jerry judging by the volume of CS- stuff going across
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Post by captainbob on Jan 26, 2016 12:18:20 GMT
Looks like it Jerry judging by the volume of CS- stuff going across This on the LHR site this morning . . . LHR Tue 26th Jan possible delays due French ATC
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Post by RayG on Jan 26, 2016 17:56:56 GMT
For the fourth day in a row, no sightings to report. With the French ATC strike would have made a couple of Easy Jets an Air Berlin and a Tui Germany. Also F- HMML Emb 505 went over twice. Hopefully will see some blue skies before the end of the week.
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Post by jerryrowe on Jan 27, 2016 22:42:27 GMT
Was expecting a second blank day, but redeemed at the last moment by B-16726 773 of EVA, which has just gone overhead on LHR departure. Only delivered a few days ago so almost certainly a first visit. Forecast for tomorrow much better.
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Post by graham on Jan 28, 2016 8:44:36 GMT
Yes, a lovely morning here and four in the book already including NATO Sentry EC-3 LX-N90444 heading southwest to my west and easily seen with the bins plus my currently final EasyJet G-EZEH
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Post by davidallum on Jan 28, 2016 10:33:53 GMT
After 4 days of watching that famous Canadian (C-LOUD) doing the rounds,this morning is gorgeous and 4 in the book already:
OY-RJC CRJ200 (outbound Luton) OY-TCH A321 Thomas Cook Scandinavia (last one) C-GLXC Falcon 7X (inbound Farnborough) N90CZ Citationjet 3
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Post by davidallum on Jan 28, 2016 13:19:20 GMT
Two more to add to the list:
D-INOB Citationjet 2 F-HOIE Avanti
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