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Hellow

Nice pics! A little different as usual. On those days i'm genarally also contrailspotting. :D

Ever seen a Corendon 737 cruising 3000ft? Must be easy recognizeble too , since it stands at really large format on the belly.

I don't know whetter you see it good , but if you look under the belly there is written 'CORENDON' in really big letters.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/899621/L/

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Bruspotter wrote:Ever seen a Corendon 737 cruising 3000ft?
CRZ at 3000 feet? No, never seen yet... :lol:

Nice when you can enjoy spotting also in your garden...


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Bruspotter wrote: Ever seen a Corendon 737 cruising 3000ft? Must be easy recognizeble too , since it stands at really large format on the belly.

I don't know whetter you see it good , but if you look under the belly there is written 'CORENDON' in really big letters.
on the first page:
Robin_Bamps wrote: Corendon's TC-TJA has the same kind of billboard advertising on the plane's belly.
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Avro wrote:Corendon is also doing that kind of advertisment on its planes

;) ;)

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Hello

Little correction , 30000ft :D

Although sometimes I see some US , UK or Scandinavia Inbound planes at 3000-5000ft approaching for BRU.

Now THAT's nice , especially when it's the RAM 744 or CO 764 etc...:p

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Hi everybody.
I so this Emirates also with my binoculars overflying Brussels was very nice to see.
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Tommypilot wrote:
Bruspotter wrote:Ever seen a Corendon 737 cruising 3000ft?
CRZ at 3000 feet? No, never seen yet... :lol:

Nice when you can enjoy spotting also in your garden...
In my garden I can see planes @ 30000ft and 3000ft cause I'm close to 25R. Never saw the Corodon @ 30000ft, but I'm still waiting to see more decent summer days to watch the contrails. They will come... perhaps next year 8) .


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Bruspotter wrote:Although sometimes I see some US , UK or Scandinavia Inbound planes at 3000-5000ft approaching for BRU.
There is a "small" difference between cruising and approaching :wink:

I only see the Asian-bound traffic (mostly from LHR,...) over my house.
And off course some take offs at +/- FL060 above my house when 25R is in use.
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Skystef wrote:Never saw the Corodon @ 30000ft, but I'm still waiting to see more decent summer days to watch the contrails. They will come... perhaps next year 8) .
The period of contrails isn't the summer, but the winter! Much brighter sky and better light-conditions, contrails from about FL250...

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Jense wrote:The period of contrails isn't the summer, but the winter! Much brighter sky and better light-conditions, contrails from about FL250...
Contrail shots are of every season, but in summer you have 16 hours of light, in winter 8 hours. Btw good light conditions occur also in summer, in the period of 4-5 hours after/before sunrise/sunset, giving 8-10 hour window a day. When not to hot, radiation is reasonable low, so in between chances are also sometimes pretty good.

Agree that contrails lower in winter, but than the sport is to capture the cruising planes without a contrail.

Summer means normally sunshine & blue sky, winter mostly grey. But anno 2005 this seems not to work ;).

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Skystef wrote:Summer means normally sunshine & blue sky, winter mostly grey. But anno 2005 this seems not to work ;).
As regular "spotter" I do prefer winter lightning conditions.

Its not always the "blue" sky that counts but the quality of the air: in the summer more polutions then in the winter by the heat of several causes.
But off course also polutions in the winter occur. :cry:

The eveninglight and morninglight is longer in the summer but I prefer to have them in the winter.

Off course everyone has her/his opion about this.

I am not complaining at all, at least when its dry, its ok for me! :)
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Tommypilot wrote:
I am not complaining at all, at least when its dry, its ok for me! :)
The only "contrails" these days are:
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Of course it's a wake vortex, so humid air can be fun too.
This one was performing touch & go's today, taken behind my window on a "typical" approach on 25R :lol: .

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was nice catching tose vortexes? amazing i cant believe how big the B757 200F of Ethiopian made!
I got a movie of that one but i dunno if you can see the vortex on my pix :(..

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Skystef wrote:Thanks for underlying it again Robin 8)

I wonder if somebody recognizes this airframe? Where are you Mr. MD11 :wink:
I guess it's the N804DE from World Airways.

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... entry=true

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Just love the retro scheme - reminds me of the 70's when World 707's plied the Atlantic.

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Skystef,

sorry for the late reply but took a one week break.
Just got back this evening.
The Emirates B773 you saw on August 18 was either UAE001 to LHR (A6-EBB that day) or else UAE015 to LGW (A6-EBD that day) so a bit of bad luck as both of them were of the new series...

Regarding the Sabena billboard: I'm afraid time has faded my memory a bit. I thought they really had bigger titles but after checking a picture of a DC.6 of my friend's collection...
At least they had it! :D

I'll send one over to you, you may post it if you want...

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OO-JFP, many thanks for providing info on UAE773.

I've uploaded the Sabena DC6, with full credit to your friend.


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I wonder which company is behind this scheme. Taken @ EBBR, cruising to the west on August 28 at 1614LT. Any thoughts???

Many thanks for your answer(s)

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Helo,

What do you think about this one:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/905857/L/


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Tommypilot wrote:Helo,

What do you think about this one:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/905857/L/


Regards,

Indeed thx, thats him. I was thinking about an American A319 corporate Jet flying from Germany. U can search for ages if starting from the wrong point. With all these hybrid c/s... :?

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No doubt about this airframe: must be G-VBUS of Virgin Nigeria cruising to EGLL on August 29.

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