Search the archive:
YaBB - Yet another Bulletin Board
 
   
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
London Heathrow to Birmingham (1 of 2) (Read 227 times)
May 24th, 2008 at 2:01pm

machineman9   Offline
Colonel
Nantwich, England

Gender: male
Posts: 5255
*****
 
So I decided I would go fog flying for the first time.... in a 737.

Starting at London Heathrow the approximate 20-30minute flight is going over to Birmingham.

I set it up as ILS I think, and because the ATC denied me both take off and landing I figured I would take the sky into my own hands, and took off.

I am fairly pleased with a few of these shots... especially those on the runway.

...

Ready to depart, 1/2 mile of visibility says the ATIS. Lets go!


...

Soaring away from London Heathrow

...

Climbing to roughly 10,000ft


...

Not sure how the photographer got there...


...

On I go... about half way there.





Part 2 coming shortly.


C+C please, and any comments too.

Cheers
 

...
IP Logged
 
Reply #1 - May 24th, 2008 at 2:09pm

evanatorx   Offline
Colonel
Bunny!
Living in Beijing for summer!

Gender: male
Posts: 511
*****
 
I love flying IFR through fog, my favourite! (Y)

I love the angle on # 3. Can't wait to see the next set!
 
IP Logged
 
Reply #2 - May 24th, 2008 at 2:12pm

machineman9   Offline
Colonel
Nantwich, England

Gender: male
Posts: 5255
*****
 
Set 2 is up now.

Yeh, it was a bit interesting to do actually. I get paranoid that even though I am at 4500 (I mean with 0 visability) that I will crash, so I descended to about 1500 for a very low final just so that I could actually see the ground.

With practise I am sure I can do it better though (you dont want to see the amount of flare there was from the bad line up and descent)
 

...
IP Logged
 
Reply #3 - May 24th, 2008 at 5:34pm

Harold   Offline
Colonel
Knowledge Is Power
EHTE

Gender: male
Posts: 5998
*****
 
Sweet! Number three is clever ... I like that. On to part two ...
 

...

Dell Dimension 8300 | P4 3.2 Ghz. | 2 GB RAM | 150 GB WD Raptor | Gainward 7800 GS+ 512 | FS-GS

click here to read my Studio V interview
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print