Glasgow Prestwick Photography Help

Thanks very much guys for the fast help, very much appreciated!

Ok so on the 13th November I’m flying to Belfast City, and then over to Prestwick at around midday (to try out Ryanair’s shortest ever route, tis like 90 miles or sommething stupid!). Shall walk to one of those spots, and then fly home at 1735.

Then the week after on the 21st I shall be there for a bit longer, flying up from Stansted at 0950 and leavaing again at 1735. If anyone’s gonna be around, feel free to get in touch!

All for a grand total of 5p 😀

I might be around around those dates, got to shoot a Raven first though…;)

http://www.ravengame.co.uk/go/game/

Thanks very much guys for the fast help, very much appreciated!

Ok so on the 13th November I’m flying to Belfast City, and then over to Prestwick at around midday (to try out Ryanair’s shortest ever route, tis like 90 miles or sommething stupid!). Shall walk to one of those spots, and then fly home at 1735.

Then the week after on the 21st I shall be there for a bit longer, flying up from Stansted at 0950 and leavaing again at 1735. If anyone’s gonna be around, feel free to get in touch!

All for a grand total of 5p 😀

In light of the 1p including tax offer on Ryanair.com, I’m planning a quick day in Prestwick for some shots. I’ve seen some really good shots on here, I just wondered if someone could give me an idea if it’s possible to get to the locations from the terminal? I think there is a mound infront of the taxiway that seems quite popular and seems to be where most people go? And is the lighting good for most of the day?

Thanks in advance!

Ok, here’s some pics from each spot I’ve mentioned –

A few from the “crash gate” 5 mins walk to the right of the Terminal, not the best of pics some of them as I just picked a month and uploaded them and not great quality, but they’ll give you a fair idea what to expect though –

Pics from the crash gate –

Irish reg’d Bae125 + some interesting Mildenhall diversions –

Virgin A340 taxying in –

Pic from the “big” mound looking toward the “wee” mound, very heat hazy –

Pic from the big mound –

Pics from the rear of the big mound –

Pic from the railway bridge –

Pic a 2 min walk from the terminal, turn left –

Pic from the wee mound –

Hope this helps

Hi wannabe
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Kevin

In light of the 1p including tax offer on Ryanair.com, I’m planning a quick day in Prestwick for some shots. I’ve seen some really good shots on here, I just wondered if someone could give me an idea if it’s possible to get to the locations from the terminal? I think there is a mound infront of the taxiway that seems quite popular and seems to be where most people go? And is the lighting good for most of the day?

Thanks in advance!

The ‘mound’ is about a 15 minute walk away, when you come out of the Terminal walk straight ahead and through the car park in front of you and follow the dual-carriageway to the left, at the roundabout just carry straight on, you’ll then walk past some playing fields on your left and at the set of traffic lights just past these, take a left and continue past the graveyard on your left, just past here take a left again and it’ll take you to the access gate for ATC and a flying club, the “big” mound is to the right, the “wee” mound to the left.
The “big” mound gives you a fantastic view over the landings and departures on r/w 31 and any a/c that roll long on landing on r/w 13, for r/w 13 departures the “wee” mound is probably better as it’s closer to where most a/c rotate on take-off.
At these locations the sun is behind you most of the day.
Another good location if r/w 13 is in use (not very often) is about a 5 minute walk from the Terminal, turn right instead of left and walk along the footpath adjacent the dual-carriageway past the fuel farm and a cargo shed and just past the shed on the right there’s a ‘crash gate’ with probably the closest distance you’ll get to a taxying aircraft at a Scottish airport, across the road there is the entrance to a Caravan park with a bridge over the main Ayr-Glasgow railway line which gives you elevated shots of landings/departures on r/w 13, but if you do cross here be very carefull as the road can be very busy.
No shelter at all at the mounds but there is a bus shelter not far from the r/w 13 spot.
Frequencies are 118.15 for the Tower and 120.55 for Approach.
PIK can be hit and miss, some days little of interest, other days you’ll not believe your luck, today for instance there was a Libyan An124, the Dreamlifter passes through about once a month, most days you’ll see at least 1 CLX 747, 1 x Evergreen 747, a couple of Atlas 747’s, and quite a few RYR’s.
Hope this helps, if you need any more info PM me.
I’ll post a few pics from each location shortly to give you an idea of the views from each spot..

The mound is to the south east end of the airport near the control tower… If you leave the airport and head for the main road, with the building at your back, aim left of the terminal and head straight through a roundabout into Shawfarm Road, keep going til you come to a fork on the left at some lights called Shaw Road, follow this down to some gates that are for ATC vehicles to enter the tower compound. The mound is the grassy area to the right of this…

Probably a good 15-20 min walk ?

If I could remember how to do a frame grab off google earth I could show you the route in vision…

I know where to go at PIK but have no clue to the name of the roads to get there, best bet would be Kevinwm, Rab5869 or G-PIK.

Give them a PM I’m sure they will help you out.

Raymy