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MV - would you like me to avoid your hamlet tonight and tomorrow with the Electra? I can do anything (almost) and I don't even charge.
WHBM - when it goes off 30 at Cardiff, it routes to Alvin then over south Gloucestershire down L9. Depending on the wind, peeps in South Bristol won't necessarily hear it. Inbound however, it routes over South Bristol toward Burnham on Sea to join RW30 at Cardiff.
WHBM - when it goes off 30 at Cardiff, it routes to Alvin then over south Gloucestershire down L9. Depending on the wind, peeps in South Bristol won't necessarily hear it. Inbound however, it routes over South Bristol toward Burnham on Sea to join RW30 at Cardiff.
Standard Noise (or even Superb Noise) :
Is that you going overhead me right now, 0020 local, heading 090, anti-collision lights nicely visible, about an hour later than normal ?
Possibly you could dip down overhead me one evening and then put the power on ! Right by the London City NDB. They're closed by your time of night so I'm sure no-one would notice if you got down to say 1,000 feet
Thank you again for the routing info.
MV :
Sounds like you are near my childhood home, Whitchurch, where in about 1960 on quiet nights from bed I used to hear faint high-level overflying traffic which I now believe were westbound overnight transatlantic Constellations and DC-7s out of London (or maybe Paris) heading for Shannon and points west. Oh, to have THOSE still going over the house !
Is that you going overhead me right now, 0020 local, heading 090, anti-collision lights nicely visible, about an hour later than normal ?
Possibly you could dip down overhead me one evening and then put the power on ! Right by the London City NDB. They're closed by your time of night so I'm sure no-one would notice if you got down to say 1,000 feet
Thank you again for the routing info.
MV :
Sounds like you are near my childhood home, Whitchurch, where in about 1960 on quiet nights from bed I used to hear faint high-level overflying traffic which I now believe were westbound overnight transatlantic Constellations and DC-7s out of London (or maybe Paris) heading for Shannon and points west. Oh, to have THOSE still going over the house !
IIRC in 1960 the original Bristol airport, called Whitchurch (although not really located there), was still in service for GA as I can recall light aircraft going over the house.
On my rare passes-through the district nowadays it always seems amazing to now see a stream of 737s etc passing to the south.
Regarding the occasional private flights on Ceefax this is a feature of the system, you see it for some other airports too (eg Luton). Apparently it requires manual intervention to filter out the non-public flights from the airport's own arrivals system based on presumably data from handling agents (and if I recall correctly from a PPL flight, handling agents are compulsory at Cardiff even for GA) and it doesn't always get done.
Standard Noise :
Think I may have misinterpreted your post as you being aircrew on the Electra, possibly incorrect in that. Apologies if wrong.
On my rare passes-through the district nowadays it always seems amazing to now see a stream of 737s etc passing to the south.
Regarding the occasional private flights on Ceefax this is a feature of the system, you see it for some other airports too (eg Luton). Apparently it requires manual intervention to filter out the non-public flights from the airport's own arrivals system based on presumably data from handling agents (and if I recall correctly from a PPL flight, handling agents are compulsory at Cardiff even for GA) and it doesn't always get done.
Standard Noise :
Think I may have misinterpreted your post as you being aircrew on the Electra, possibly incorrect in that. Apologies if wrong.
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I am indeed an ATCO at Brizzel. 10 points to MV.
WHBM - no apology needed, I'm flattered someone thinks I could be intelligent enough to be a pilot. I did however work at Coventry a few years ago, and saw the Electra's up close quite a bit. Much as I didn't rate Air Antique as a company (or an employer), I do respect them greatly for the rather eclectic mix of aircraft they have owned/used over the years.
As for Cardiff RW12 deps going east, they turn northeast towards Alvin climbing to be level at FL100 before setting off down L9. That keeps them above our Wotan deps which climb to FL90.
WHBM - no apology needed, I'm flattered someone thinks I could be intelligent enough to be a pilot. I did however work at Coventry a few years ago, and saw the Electra's up close quite a bit. Much as I didn't rate Air Antique as a company (or an employer), I do respect them greatly for the rather eclectic mix of aircraft they have owned/used over the years.
As for Cardiff RW12 deps going east, they turn northeast towards Alvin climbing to be level at FL100 before setting off down L9. That keeps them above our Wotan deps which climb to FL90.
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Don't forget the Emerald flights in/out of Lulsgate, inherently propliner and nearly always a 748.
I've heard the Electra out of Cardiff now and again droning past when there's been an easterly wind over ere at Fishponds.
MH
I've heard the Electra out of Cardiff now and again droning past when there's been an easterly wind over ere at Fishponds.
MH
think its a 462 anyway, I'll probably get pedantically corrected to 463 <G>.Join Date: Feb 2005
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I'll probably get pedantically corrected to 463
The outbound AWC063F fills in for Scot Airways during the day EDI-LCY-EDI and then flies back to good old Bristol as a mail flight.
Forgot to mention that there's also a mail flight out of Exeter to St Ansted which can drone/buzz over around midnight, it's a Shorts 360
Andy.
Had to go over to Belfast just now, a nice sight of an Atlantic Electra on the ground there .....
Going back (quickly) to Lulsgate in the 1960s, I recall one of these there
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/273898/M/
It was quite a sight silhouetted on the skyline of the ramp as you came up the A38 out of Bristol. It did a regular evening flight a couple of times a week.
Another 10 of SN's points to those who can identify it without looking at the caption.
Going back (quickly) to Lulsgate in the 1960s, I recall one of these there
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/273898/M/
It was quite a sight silhouetted on the skyline of the ramp as you came up the A38 out of Bristol. It did a regular evening flight a couple of times a week.
Another 10 of SN's points to those who can identify it without looking at the caption.
aaaahhhh...
A Duck Pond. (or Deux Ponts as known elsewhere).
MV-
Spent 3 happy years in Wrington in late 80s. And views of BRS on the way to/from work every day. The main protagonists then were Paramount MD83s.
Of course, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.....
A Duck Pond. (or Deux Ponts as known elsewhere).
MV-
Spent 3 happy years in Wrington in late 80s. And views of BRS on the way to/from work every day. The main protagonists then were Paramount MD83s.
Of course, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.....
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Does anyone know who this may be?-
BX086Bilbao13:20arrivals
then
BX086Haugesund13:50Depatures
More info on Haugesund
Its an airport in Norway with a 2150m runway, Ryanair flys there(says it all really) so might this be a refuelling stop? and if so by who? with only 30mins turn around. What plane will it be?
P.S its been delayed until 1340 arrival
BX086Bilbao13:20arrivals
then
BX086Haugesund13:50Depatures
More info on Haugesund
Its an airport in Norway with a 2150m runway, Ryanair flys there(says it all really) so might this be a refuelling stop? and if so by who? with only 30mins turn around. What plane will it be?
P.S its been delayed until 1340 arrival
Last edited by BAforever; 9th Sep 2006 at 11:39.
