The Planespotting/General AV Geek Thread

[UP4014]

Sent this link

https://youtu.be/MBkUPXKe0PM

 

[TomVexille]

Sent this link, taken Sunday 9th in MEL.

https://youtu.be/MBkUPXKe0PM

That footage is actually from May 2015

 

[UP4014]

That footage is actually from May 2015

Ta, took it at face value

 

[TomVexille]

Ta, took it at face value

It certainly made a re-appearance yesterday. And with the winds we had, it easily could have been taken yesterday.

 

[docjames]

Spotted what looked very much like a QF 330 doing circuits (!) at AVV yesterday around 845-900am.

Any ideas what it was doing?

Also Saw a largish chopper hovering over AVV at about 1130 (although that may have been a medical chopper waiting landing).

Sorry no pics as I was driving!

 

[OzEire]

Spotted what looked very much like a QF 330 doing circuits (!) at AVV yesterday around 845-900am.

Any ideas what it was doing?

Also Saw a largish chopper hovering over AVV at about 1130 (although that may have been a medical chopper waiting landing).

Sorry no pics as I was driving!

This happens quite frequently - I think QF sometimes use AVV for post maintenance checks (happy to be corrected).

 

[Conrad_S]

Visitor at port macquarie overnight. Apparently had to turn around near Newcastle due to the storm yesterday afternoon.

 

[ozimax]

OK I'll add to the thread:

RAAF base Williamtown last week.
FA18h by Ozimax, on Flickr

FA18g by Ozimax, on Flickr

FA18f by Ozimax, on Flickr

FA18b by Ozimax, on Flickr

From Cronulla beach last week:
A380c by Ozimax, on Flickr

A380a by Ozimax, on Flickr

 

[Borisdog]

I was at the Airshow in TSV last Saturday and got quite a few photos of the Neptune above in flight, also a WW2 Hudson and P51 Mustang among others - will post when I've got them downloaded.

 

[kalboy]

please do, would love to see the Mustang.

 

[jb747]

This happens quite frequently - I think QF sometimes use AVV for post maintenance checks (happy to be corrected).

Maintenance isn't done on the 330 at Avalon. Any flights that are necessary (and I don't think there are) would be done out of the airfield that did the work.

Circuits would be pilot training. Whilst the vast majority is done in the sim these days, it's likely that there are still some conversion streams that contain an hour of base training. S/O to F/O would be the most probable, but it might be there for any change of seat. It was in my time...but that's a while back.

 

[EestiTiger]

Think I have a new favourite thread... It might take me a while to get through all 66 odd pages though

Here is my contribution. Airforce Two a C-32 in TLL Estonia 2015. Not the best picture but it was as close as I could get.

 

[Borisdog]

Some photos at TSV Airshow

F16


Hudson



Neptune

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Clive Palmer's or 'Terry Smith's' Mineralogy dynamic duo still at BNE seen as we taxied past for a RW19 departure.

 

[Boris spatsky]

Clive Palmer's or 'Terry Smith's' Mineralogy dynamic duo still at BNE seen as we taxied past for a RW19 departure.

I see them everytime i land in Brisbane and have never seen them move. Do they ever fly?

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I see them everytime i land in Brisbane and have never seen them move. Do they ever fly?

Never seen them fly out of BNE but did see it once in DRW. IIRC it was bloody noisy. One of the most spectacular sights I saw in DRW was an AN124 flying low over the city, gear down doing a left base turn for RW29. Didn't have a camera at the ready unfortunately.

 

[jb747]

Noise...

 

[Quickstatus]

Whats the wing's leading edge doing?

 

[Boris spatsky]

Whats the wing's leading edge doing?

It's the LEX (Leading Edge Extension) - basically like slats on an airliner, but these ones automatically are deployed by the onboard computer based on airspeed and angle of attack).

 

[ozbeachbabe]

The first pic at ORD today (23 Oct) showing an AA 738 in retro Air Cal livery N917NN operating AA2327 ORD/DFW.

The second pic is an Frontier Airlines A320 N201FR in 'Yukon the Caribou' livery operating F91235 ORD/SEA.

Third pic is the view from the camera on our 77W CX888 flight on arrival in YVR from HKG.