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Hi
I passed the airport yesterday morning on the train and noted the following.
Can anybody supply me with the regs please?
Flybe Q400 on runway about to take off
2 x easyjet on stand
a post office b737
DHL b757
and a star air aircraft (mearsk?)
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I passed the airport yesterday morning on the train and noted the following.
Can anybody supply me with the regs please?
Flybe Q400 on runway about to take off
2 x easyjet on stand
a post office b737
DHL b757
and a star air aircraft (mearsk?)
thanks
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I was there in the departures area from just after 9.00am and would have been logging but got engrossed in a book - sorry mate. I took off on the Flybe Q400 G-JEDO at 14.40 for Southampton. One of the very few times I was not logging.
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Whatever happened to the high standards of spotting that existed when I was a kid?? (Approx 35 years ago, ahem...)
How can anyone possibly give you the correct registrations when you don't even quote a time of day?? The DHL and the Post Office aircraft, OK, possibly, but I would assume that Flybe and EZY are in and out of EDI all day...
Maybe going a bit far, but I knew one lad who resolutely refused to log anything unless he personally saw the registration on the aircraft!!
How can anyone possibly give you the correct registrations when you don't even quote a time of day?? The DHL and the Post Office aircraft, OK, possibly, but I would assume that Flybe and EZY are in and out of EDI all day...
Maybe going a bit far, but I knew one lad who resolutely refused to log anything unless he personally saw the registration on the aircraft!!
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Whatever happened to the high standards of spotting that existed when I was a kid?? (Approx 35 years ago, ahem...)
How can anyone possibly give you the correct registrations when you don't even quote a time of day?? The DHL and the Post Office aircraft, OK, possibly, but I would assume that Flybe and EZY are in and out of EDI all day...
Maybe going a bit far, but I knew one lad who resolutely refused to log anything unless he personally saw the registration on the aircraft!!
How can anyone possibly give you the correct registrations when you don't even quote a time of day?? The DHL and the Post Office aircraft, OK, possibly, but I would assume that Flybe and EZY are in and out of EDI all day...
Maybe going a bit far, but I knew one lad who resolutely refused to log anything unless he personally saw the registration on the aircraft!!
He has put the time of day - see his post title: 0935.
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Totally agree - I never log anything unless I personally see it but I am always happy to pass info on if someone asks but I suppose I set rigorous standards for myself but to each his own I suppose.
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I do apologise - I missed the time in the title...
However, I still maintain that the request is a bit vague for total accuracy - could you see the whole apron and thus know for certain there were only 2 EZYs??
When I was a wee spotter at MAN in the late 60s (hello to anyone who was there at the time), we used to call it 'cribbing'...
However, I still maintain that the request is a bit vague for total accuracy - could you see the whole apron and thus know for certain there were only 2 EZYs??
When I was a wee spotter at MAN in the late 60s (hello to anyone who was there at the time), we used to call it 'cribbing'...
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Sorry guys it was raining heavy and couldn't really see a lot and the train was going fast so only could see a few planes in the distance, and made a quick note to post on here.
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Congratulations, HH6702, you've now made it worse!! You're actually admitting that you couldn't see much (presumably not the whole of the apron), so you have no idea how many EZYs were there!!!
Eeeeee, it weren't like that in my day...
The other term we used to use in the 60s was 'bum spotter' - rather different connotations now!! It was applied to people who 'cribbed' but also (rather harshly I felt) to anyone who had logged less than 1000 registrations...
Eeeeee, it weren't like that in my day...
The other term we used to use in the 60s was 'bum spotter' - rather different connotations now!! It was applied to people who 'cribbed' but also (rather harshly I felt) to anyone who had logged less than 1000 registrations...
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sorry oldlag53 next time i pass on the train i will ask the driver to stop!!
im sure that everyone else on the train would be happy for the train to stop next to the runnway for a minute or two while i get my binoculars out and make a real note!
My home airport is ncl and we have a movements website which lists everything which comes and goes.
I thought that you guys may have something like that but maybe not.
Will have to drive up soon and park at the airport for a few hrs
thanks
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im sure that everyone else on the train would be happy for the train to stop next to the runnway for a minute or two while i get my binoculars out and make a real note!
My home airport is ncl and we have a movements website which lists everything which comes and goes.
I thought that you guys may have something like that but maybe not.
Will have to drive up soon and park at the airport for a few hrs
thanks
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HH6702 - it has just occurred to me that the info you want may be found at Scotavnet in yahoo groups. They gave me the reg of a Ryanair I flew on 3 months after the event although as I said previously I could not claim it as I had not seen it but I was curious to know if it was one I had already been on. The main man tho' for aircraft movements and regs at Edi is Jim Fulton At Scottish air news. I asked him about a Swiss Lear Jet in August 1968 HB-VBA for my book on Edinburgh Airport and he told me it came in twice on 8th August 1968. If he can't give you the answer I doubt anyone can.
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I do apologise - I missed the time in the title...
However, I still maintain that the request is a bit vague for total accuracy - could you see the whole apron and thus know for certain there were only 2 EZYs??
When I was a wee spotter at MAN in the late 60s (hello to anyone who was there at the time), we used to call it 'cribbing'...
However, I still maintain that the request is a bit vague for total accuracy - could you see the whole apron and thus know for certain there were only 2 EZYs??
When I was a wee spotter at MAN in the late 60s (hello to anyone who was there at the time), we used to call it 'cribbing'...
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Sounds to me like a major amount of cribbing/fudging going on...
The point I was trying to make was that unless you are 100% certain you can match up the aircraft you saw with the observations of others, you shouldn't log them. As me old mum used to say, "you're only cheating yourself"...
And EZYs and Flybes are so common that a) you can't be 100% sure of a match-up, and b) you could just 'walk away' and notch them up next time.
It's just not the true spirit of spotting (in my humble opinion)...
The point I was trying to make was that unless you are 100% certain you can match up the aircraft you saw with the observations of others, you shouldn't log them. As me old mum used to say, "you're only cheating yourself"...
And EZYs and Flybes are so common that a) you can't be 100% sure of a match-up, and b) you could just 'walk away' and notch them up next time.
It's just not the true spirit of spotting (in my humble opinion)...
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Thanks i will try the leads you have given me on the yahoo groups.
easyjet a319's are common at edi but not at my local which is ncl which is still a 737 base.
easyjet a319's are common at edi but not at my local which is ncl which is still a 737 base.
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It's not a commercial site,so I can tell you it's------
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scotavnet
You will get complete logs here,but not until some days later----
http://www.egph.co.uk/log.htm
(Mods--that's not a commercial site either)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scotavnet
You will get complete logs here,but not until some days later----
http://www.egph.co.uk/log.htm
(Mods--that's not a commercial site either)
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