A PERfect ride to the Southern Lights

[Bindibuys]

I am not mean..... I am a witch.
I just meant that we are J for syd-mel-syd, but her ticket is for Y.
We are all in Y (row 55) for the 787.

(she loves her mumma bear)

 

[JohnM]

Update.

I have just received a link to the pro photos taken on the flight and posted by Chimu.

A frugal offering that reflects the limited activity last Saturday night. The photo numbers indicate that maybe the pro took a total of maybe 200 pics.

Here's a snip of all they put up. The last two of the what we saw just as we turned for home are certainly crackers, but as I mentioned upthread, they do not look as large and sky-filling from an aircraft as the photo implies.

 

[JohnM]

I just heard back from my retired EK A380 driver mate.

He spent 15 years with TAA and saw the Aurora Australis once on a freighter flight to Tassie in the middle of the night.

He was a victim of the infamous pilots' dispute and spent the rest of his career pretty much in the N hemisphere, primarily with EK. He did see a spectacular display of Australis on a MEL-DXB flight about half way to ADL. So that's only two Australis in a 40+ years career.

He did see Borealis displays "several" times.

My take from this and @jb747's comment is that those peeps driving the Flying Machines don't see the Auroras as often as we numpties may think. Interesting in itself, I think.

 

[Kiwi_Flyer]

Very much depends on routes. Back when I used to fly NZ to LHR via LAX it was common to see the northern lights over Canada and Greenland.

 

[Bindibuys]

Pilot friend of mine just posted this on FB

National Weather Service issues G3-STRONG Geomagnetic Storm Warning

The National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado has issued a G3-STRONG Geomagnetic Storm Warning for Earth; the...

weatherboy.com

 

[JohnM]

Pilot friend of mine just posted this on FB

National Weather Service issues G3-STRONG Geomagnetic Storm Warning

The National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado has issued a G3-STRONG Geomagnetic Storm Warning for Earth; the...

weatherboy.com

That would be right - a week after I went…

 

[maggies1]

Interesting article. I wonder if today’s power black out in Southern Queensland was a result of this

 

[drron]

Interesting article. I wonder if today’s power black out in Southern Queensland was a result of this

Hardly it was a fire in one of the turbines.