Contrail spotting

Post by **Kapitein** » 09 Jan 2006, 20:21

LY 747-400 heading West to LHR or JFK maybe, who knows?

FR 737-800 heading CRL, every day the same time and routing.

Unknown A340-300 heading East to Germany. Help wanted. Picture taken on 09/01 at 12u30 LT above Landen.

ILS25L · Post by **ILS25L** » 09 Jan 2006, 20:26

Goodevening,

China Eastern ??

Greetz, Karl

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 09 Jan 2006, 20:28

@Brubiac: looks like a Gulf Air A343 in the old colours...

Regards
Frederic

pipodeclown · Post by **pipodeclown** » 09 Jan 2006, 21:12

Brubiac,

As Frederic already mentioned, the 340 most likely belongs to Gulf Air. A4O-LB visited EGLL today and passed overhead Belgium around noon as GF002.

The 747 of ELAL was most likely operating flight LY315 LLBG-EGLL. ID: 4X-ELA

Pipodeclown

Post by **Kapitein** » 10 Jan 2006, 11:42

Thanks for the all the help guys.

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 13 Jan 2006, 19:08

Hi all,

any idea who's behind this scheme? Thx for search.

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 13 Jan 2006, 19:22

Hi Stef,

That's VT-SDL of Air Sahara, Delhi - London Heathrow...

Regards
Frederic

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 13 Jan 2006, 19:53

Sabena_690 wrote:That's VT-SDL of Air Sahara, Delhi - London Heathrow...

No wonder I couldn't find it, this service started on January 6 2006, anyhow thx Fred.

Air_Defence · Post by **Air_Defence** » 14 Jan 2006, 17:30

Hi,

These are my military planes of today.

First an USAF C-5 Galaxy going to England...

Second was an USAF C-17 Globemaster III going to Ramstein...

Grtzz Dirk

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 14 Jan 2006, 18:47

Contrails below are taken from the treshold of RWY 25L at Brussels:

A CSA A310, probably heading to LHR:

A My travel A332, unkown destination:

An unkown B747, can't see exactly if it's a -400 but my bet goes for it:

A British Airways B772, probably heading to LHR:

Another British Airways, a B744 this time, also probably heading to LHR:

An Austrian A332, probably heading to JFK:

An unidentified aircraft, but my bet goes to a Thomas Cook B753:

An Emirates B773 (ER?), probably heading to LHR:

Another Emirates, a B772 this time, heading to the UK:

And the last Emirates of the day for me, also for this bunch of contrail-pics, an A332, unkown destination:

moons · Post by **moons** » 15 Jan 2006, 12:20

Hello,

What a beautiful sky today!

So I was watching trough my window. I saw 2 contrails close to eachother. First I thought they were crossing. But a minut later the two contrails were turning to the right.

One contrail was of a twin engine plane and the other 1 engine. Both heading north (holland maybe) around 12 o'clock.

Has anyone seen these 2? Could it be a plane which is being escorted by a fighter jet?

Ivan_Eagle · Post by **Ivan_Eagle** » 15 Jan 2006, 12:51

Hellow, my list for a part of today,
I can't stop contrailspotting in this weather

all the planes go to the NW!

B747-400 Qantas 10.35 (LHR)
A321-200 BA 10.45
A330-200 Turkish 10.55 (JFK??)
A330-300 Lufthansa 11.00
A310 Iran?? 11.05 (LHR??)
A319-100 BA 11.15
(registrations thanks to friend who send me a live radar

)
B747-400 BA G-CIVI 11.15 (LHR)
B777-300 Emirates A6-EBE 11.55
B737-700 Easy *-**** 11.55
A320-200 Cyprus 5B-DBB 11.55
B747-400 El Al 4X-ELC 12.15
A321-200 MEA F-ORMF 12.17
C-17 *12.30
A340-300 Turkish TC-JIH 12.30
A320-200 Lufthansa D-AIQW 12.30 (man)
B737-800 Turkish TC-JGG 12.32
A340-500 Emirates A6-ERD 12.35 (BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!)
B737-800 Ryaniar EI-CSA 12.38

Greats Ivan

pipodeclown · Post by **pipodeclown** » 15 Jan 2006, 13:11

Ivan,

where did you spot them?

yes, indeed an nice day for contrailspotting. I saw almost the same planes:

QFA was VH-OJP
TK was TC-JNB (to LHR)
IR was AB4 EP-IBD to LHR

my list for today:

319 Privat *2
330 LTU *2
330 LH *2
763 DL *4
772 AA
330 OS??
340 LH*3
321 ME201
744BA*2
773 EK15?
773ER EK1
744 QF QF31
344 TK5
C-17 USAF
330 EY301
345 EK201
332 UL
FR 738 different ones
763 BA
734 JU all white
333 AC
736 AC
TP 319/320
PLK TU154
732 ??? passing overhead at 13:20. My guess is EAL?
332 EK029
312 BG5?
343 LH402
744 LH???
744 UA???
343 TK1
752 MON
773ER AF292
343 LH???
319 OS
772 DL15
320 WZZ109K
RJ85 LH
332 MON2491
333 LH410
343 LH414
753 DE
the last ones in the setting sun=
744 CAL255
772 AI187
332 EY303

Regards,
Pipodeclown

Ivan_Eagle · Post by **Ivan_Eagle** » 15 Jan 2006, 17:20

Hellow,
I live in the south of mechelen, just the begin of APR-BRU airspace,
I can't see the planes in contrail to the east, sun

But sometimes I see in the morning nice big ones to LHR

.
Greats Ivan

Air_Defence · Post by **Air_Defence** » 15 Jan 2006, 20:38

Pictures from today: (not much military action.)

Type of A/C of this LTU?

Company of this 747?

Grtzz Dirk

Glider · Post by **Glider** » 15 Jan 2006, 20:47

@Air_Defence:

First of all; I like your pictures. Especially the LTU and the United!

Your reqs:
The LTU is an A330
The 747: my guess is a Lufthansa-plane... (due to the grey belly)

pipodeclown · Post by **pipodeclown** » 16 Jan 2006, 08:03

Guys,

747 is also a lufthansa one IMO.
The 330 is one departing from Dusseldorf.

Regards,
Pipodewlown

Air_Defence · Post by **Air_Defence** » 16 Jan 2006, 13:29

OK Thanks fot the info!

I'm more a military spotter but I spot some civil as well when there is not mutch action from the military side...

This is a large picture from today...
http://www.voortmansdirk.be/fotosvd/awacs160106.jpg

Grtzz Dirk
www.voortmansdirk.be

Post by **Bottie** » 16 Jan 2006, 13:30

Keep them coming Dirk

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 16 Jan 2006, 16:40

Jense wrote:A CSA A310, probably heading to LHR

LHR doesn't get OK A310's (at least on a regular base), the aircraft you saw was probably OK050 PRG-JFK, as this is a frequent visitor into our airspace.

Jense wrote:An Austrian A332, probably heading to JFK

VIE-JFK (OS087) is a B763 these days (I saw OS087 on that day by the way)

Jense wrote:Another British Airways, a B744 this time, also probably heading to LHR

In case it was flying in a westerly direction, LHR is the only option as all BA B744's are LHR-based.

pipodeclown wrote:744 UA???

Somewhere around 14:10? This was UA917 FRA-IAD N197UA.

Regards
Frederic