AN225 to DSA
 

For anyone interested the DSA website forum has just notified all its members that the AN225 is due in at 15:50 today (16/2) Wouldn't be surprised if the arrival time changes, cargo flights nearly always seem to, but should be quite a sight when it gets here ... due out some time tomorrow apparently.

That should be fun to behold!

New arrival being given as 17.00 - will probably upset the few local anti-airport merchants no end! But not as much as when it blasts off tomorrow!!!

AN225
 

Please get the camera loaded......
A great sight for sure.

TW

The locals will only notice if it's in the paper. Certainly when I heard it (at MAN and EMA a couple of years ago), it was no louder than a 747. The Ryanair 737-200 was louder!

now airborne
 

Apparently now airborne and on its way .... ETA 17.30:ok:

Arrived at 17.30, due out 08.00 tomorrow ... drew as big a crowd as the Rovers ...!

Be sure to post some pics, guys. :ok:

I missed it due to being at work!!!

posted on UKAR here are some photo's for you to ponder.

An-225 Doncaster Robin Hood

Trev

It was in at GRU a couple of days ago. One forgets how big it really is..

Due out at 8.00am. Have just called Doncaster ATC. Fog at Donc. will probably cause delays. They don't think it will leave at 8.00 but it is the Pilots decision. Fog forecast to clear around 10am. But we all know what forecasts are don't we.

AN225
 

Great pictures, thanks to that person...

Very clear I thought I was there too, but alas..

TW

TAFS for DSA;

DONCASTER SHEFFIELD EGCN 170806Z 1709/1718 VRB03KT 0400 FG BKN001 BECMG 1709/1711 6000 SCT020 PROB40 1711/1715 9999 BKN012 TEMPO 1715/1718 3000 RASN BKN008

Still can't see across the street yet & off another forum there is no flight plan filed yet.

Trev

<<Have just called Doncaster ATC.

I bet they love you.....

<<They don't think it will leave at 8.00 but it is the Pilots decision.

Surprise, surprise!

:rolleyes: Oh come on now HD, lighten up, it's not exactly Heathrow is it.

Got a text at 11.50hrs saying it was starting up & a flight plan had been filed.
It took off at 12.20hrs into fog. It's still foggy here 5 miles from DSA

Trev

Avman....no, it's not exactly Heathrow, but no ATC unit will appreciate phonecalls from aeroplane spotters:}

SFCC, I speak as one who works in ATC. I imagine that the only complaint DSA ATC staff might have is that the calls wake them up! :} (Just kidding DSA).

Thank you, SFCC.

Well, I imagine that if ATC in DSA didn't appreciate Legin558's calls (which I'm sure are few) they would be big enough boys and girls to tell him/her so.