Cold Day At Glasgow

And I’d like to thank Floatjockey for the overtime I made shooting the new series of CBBC’s ‘Raven’ in Dunoon and Argyll in October/November. We had to stop fiming everytime the Caravan flew over or decided to circle overhead… (lol)

Just about paid for my trip to Toronto next spring now ! 😀 😉 Got some nice footage in hi-def too !!!;)

Great to be here and thanks for the welcome, hope we have more of you aboard our services to capture the scenery in this magnificent country too!:rolleyes: I’ll say this loud and clear Glasgow ATC are the best!! I’ve flown all over and seen all sorts of ATC and these guys and gals are top notch and deserve high praise for their support of our operations.;) As for future plans we’d like to see ourselves going over to Leith Port in the near future also and this would require an aircraft more suitable to STOL op’s due to the size of this Port/Lock. Anyhow I’m sure you’ll all have a pretty good idea of what sort of aircraft we’d be looking at so exciting times ahead. Great photo’s and interesting discussions here and I look forward to throwing my ten cents worth in from time to time also (even if it’s from the other side of the tracks so to speak!).:D

Nice Rab, Nice.. Nowt wrong with the quality at all big man. Good to hear you are getting right back into it again.
Floatjockey.. Welcome to the forum! Thanks for sharing that interesting info. I’m very glad to hear the service is doing well,and long may it do so and flourish! maybe one day we will see a float version A380 rumbling doon the watter one day??:diablo:

About the seaplane operation..

Great shot’s there RAB, for your info the seaplanes services are going really well. We’ve flown over 1400 people in this aircraft since the launch of services in August. We’ll be putting this one in the hanger from December-February and all services plus a few new ones will commence in March 2008. We’re going to run this operation as late as we can reasonably expect as the demand is there but will shut down through the winter to work on the aircraft, base, expansion plans and acquisition of another aircraft. We’re looking to have a three aircraft operation by the end of next years season so stay tuned:) . If your interested you might be reading a little bit about the flight you see us in there yesterday as I had Murdo Morrison on board from Flight International. We had a charter to Tiree and over to Oban and he joined us for the trip. It was a great days flying and with 65 km plus vis out on the west coast you would have been in awe! Had a head to head fly past with a Tornado of Mull which was fun also…:eek:
Here’s a shot of us on the apron at Tiree.

thanks for the comments guy’s much appreciated, i have decided to get my 400d this week so hopfully i will have it for next weekend, and when i clean it this time i will make sure i wont leave it on the edge of the bed 😮
RAB..

Nice one Rab, Love the F100 on the plinth, is that like a gate guard at Glasgow;) Mate the contast / saturation could do with a little toning down on some the shots just to make them a little more natural. Love the first helicopter shot, nice a tight and a little artistic. Outstanding shot of the lot has got to be the Thomson 757 landing shot. Hope you don’t mind my comments.

How is the sea plane service doing, is the loads levels up to what the company predicted?

All the best

Si

You be posting some CDG shots in then Gaz ?

Woody

It wasn’t a spotting trip. Ofcourse I took a few snaps, but not with my ‘spotting camera’ and they were taken through bus windows and such. If I can scrounge anything decent then I might try to share a few.

Gaz

Nice shots Rab. I was somewhere near the back at the window on G-EZEK there. Atleast I’m assuming thats the CDG flight you’ve captured.

Gaz

You be posting some CDG shots in then Gaz ?

Woody

Nice shots Rab. I was somewhere near the back at the window on G-EZEK there. Atleast I’m assuming thats the CDG flight you’ve captured.

Gaz

Some interesting and varied shots..very nice

Great shots there RAB like the KLC Fokker 100 and the Zoom 767 taking off 😎

James

Not a bad selection at all Rab – all very nice – in particualr the TOM757 and all the Heli shots! 🙂