pax britanica
9th Sep 2007, 07:00
I suppose this could be in the ATC forum but its not a professional issue.
Living near Camberley in surrey we are spoiled with a large diversity of aircraft flying around and above but lastweek i was delighted to see what turned out to be one of the big 4 fan Antonovs climbing out due south over us -height suggested might be from Luton or STN. However instead of continuing south for Midhurst and the coast as I see every day with EZYs and Ryans et al it turned sharply( relatively speaking ) left and disappeared towards Biggin and points east . I hadnt seen aircraft on that Southbound departure routing do that before. At the time I assumed it was a special arangement for a heavy slow climbing freighter unable to use anormal departure but the following day I saw two 737s do the same thing. Is this something new -seems a very long way around from STN or Luton to head east.
Any ideas?
Anyway it was great to see the the Antonov make a huge sweeping turn seemingly suspended in space and catching the sun just nicely
PB
Living near Camberley in surrey we are spoiled with a large diversity of aircraft flying around and above but lastweek i was delighted to see what turned out to be one of the big 4 fan Antonovs climbing out due south over us -height suggested might be from Luton or STN. However instead of continuing south for Midhurst and the coast as I see every day with EZYs and Ryans et al it turned sharply( relatively speaking ) left and disappeared towards Biggin and points east . I hadnt seen aircraft on that Southbound departure routing do that before. At the time I assumed it was a special arangement for a heavy slow climbing freighter unable to use anormal departure but the following day I saw two 737s do the same thing. Is this something new -seems a very long way around from STN or Luton to head east.
Any ideas?
Anyway it was great to see the the Antonov make a huge sweeping turn seemingly suspended in space and catching the sun just nicely
PB