These are from the morning of our second day at Zurich before driving to Munich in early afternoon.
There is a good morning spot for landers on Runway 14 (the most used Runway) which is a grass bank and it is okay for widebodies but for mid sized aircraft it becomes mainly sky only in the background and I didn’t want that so I walked further down the track to shoot these landers through the upright slatted wooden fence.
All were taken with my 28-105mm lense which has a small diameter Filter and that helped a lot as you have to be quick to get the photo, there isn’t much of a gap between those wooden uprights.
This viewing photo below was taken in 2004 when I was there last and is where I was standing, you can see the grass bank on the right of the picture that is a common spot for photographers to use.
Fred.
By: steve rowell - 8th June 2007 at 05:18
Very sharp and clear shots most enjoyable
By: PMN - 7th June 2007 at 23:37
Absolutely superb, clear and sharp shots, Fred! Very nice! I want to go back to ZRH again now though!
Paul
By: T5 - 7th June 2007 at 21:33
Excellent shots, especially the Thai A340-600! Also nice to see the MyAir A320 in there. I saw a fair few of them at Bergamo yesterday. 🙂
By: Jamie_787 - 7th June 2007 at 20:33
Super shots once again Fred, well done.
Jamie M
By: A330Crazy - 7th June 2007 at 00:21
Hey Fred.
Wow… that’s all that can be said about your photos, especially those taken alongside the runway. Such excellent shots from what looks like a great spot.
How close are you actually to the aircraft?
The firs Swiss 330 shot is the best in the bunch for me – its so clear and sharp – and the angle on the second SIA 777 shot is great!
Sorry to ask another wuestion – was the trip full?
By: A Spalding - 6th June 2007 at 23:16
That Singapore B773 looks stunning mate
Great work & thanks for finding me my new love 😀
Adam
By: RIPConcorde - 5th June 2007 at 18:39
Excellent shots. 30 mins at the intersection? Lucky you, myself and Wannabe Pilot got 10 at the most when we were there in April.:mad:
By: Manston Airport - 5th June 2007 at 16:42
Brilliant pictures thanks for sharing, Like the Swiss A330 taking off and the B717 Spanair.
James
By: fredseg1 - 5th June 2007 at 16:28
Another fantastic colection Fred how much is the tour and was the trip all in expencive to do
Looks another fantastic place to visit
Regards
Peter
The tour Bus was 8 chuffers and lasted about 1 hour so worth the sum I would say.
There was 6 of us so that kept the costs down, al Hotels were ETAP’s so again that helped on expenses.
Fred.
By: E-GPF - 5th June 2007 at 16:13
Another fantastic colection Fred how much is the tour and was the trip all in expencive to do
Looks another fantastic place to visit 🙂 🙂
Regards
Peter
By: fredseg1 - 5th June 2007 at 16:08
As the sun moves around ealier in the day at this time of the year we headed back to the Terminal about 11-30 and spent some time on the old Spectators Terrace.
I had always wanted to see what the Airside Photo Tourbus was like and spend some time at the Runway intersection so all of us went on the 1pm Tour.
Unfortunately the sun at this time is very high so photos were a bit of a struggle, the first Bus goes out at 11am which would have been better for sun angle but this 1pm Tour had the best chance of shooting the interesting Widebodies.
In the 30 minutes or so standing at the special spot next to the Runways there were two Swiss A330’s, Singapore 777-300, Thai A340-600 and three mid size Airbuses so it was a good time to go.
It’s mainly the Widebodies that use Runway 16 so you can go out there at times and not shoot hardly anything departing on that Runway. All of these except the Swiss A320 departed from Runway 16.
Fred.
This T Cook A330 was under going maintenance and departed a few hours later.
On the Photobus looking back at the Terminal.
This is the Double Decker bus for the Phototour.
Very big aircraft and avery long departure run.
Airbourne just at the right spot .
A different angle of the old Terrace seen through the windows of the Bus.
By: gatwickjosh - 5th June 2007 at 16:06
Good pics Fred. Nice angles
By: V1Images - 5th June 2007 at 16:05
Great looking spot :), and awesome shots also.
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