Just a quick insight to my recent ski holiday.
Manchester to Toulouse 8/2/04
BY700A 757-200 G-BYAE
Got to check in around 3 hours before flight as to get the best seats, asked for 2A and C and found these were available, these are excellent as seat 2A has nothing in front of it. Anyway checked in ok and proceeded via the norm to passport control with no major headaches, was pretty quite.
After mouching around for a couple of hours boarding commenced, we made our way down the air bride and entered the aircraft, first thing I noticed was that Britannia has recently changed there interior not as nice as the old one just these seas with awful stripes and the TUI logo ah well uses it’s all part of the rebrand.
One thing which was bothering me today was that the North West of Britain was being battered with very strong winds up to 50MPH, umm I though this should be fun on take off and boy it was, taxed to the active 24L and you could feel the aircraft being battered by the winds, once lined up power was set and the usual slammed back in you seat 757 feeling was felt “god I love these planes”. You could feel the pilot flying fighting against the wind as the plane was being buffeted from side to side, around 30 seconds later we were airborne like the space shuttle straight up no messing. After being flung around with the winds in evently became smooth and the seat belts sign was switched off.
Across northern France the weather cleared and clear blue sky’s set in to make this a very pleasant flight, around 1 hour 10 mins the aircraft made is decent towards Toulouse again some excellent views across the Pink city was seen before touching down. Got a good view of the Airbus factory with a Singapore A340-500 was doing some taxi runs.
Ahh well I thought time to enjoy a weeks skiing in Andorra.
Toulouse to Manchester 15/2/04
BY700B 757-200 G-BYAD
After a fantastic week skiing and no broken bones it was time to depart back to Blighty.
Check in at Toulouse took forever nobody new which check in desk to use and folks were getting ratty, however after 1 and half hours of standing around we finally got to check in and was given seats 17 E,F not bad a nice wing and engine view. Taxi was very slow and eventually line up on the active. Due to the long runway here power was set and a long run later we plodded upwards, this was the most disappointing 757 take off ever.
1 Hour 30 mins later we commenced our decent towards Manchester and eventually lined up for 06 Left, an incredibly smooth touch down and no reverse thrust we ambled to a halt to taxi towards terminal 2.
Hope you enjoyed this trip report it is my first and gives you an insight to my flight, again Britannia never let us down as all flights were on time and excellent service by my favourite airline,
By: wilag - 19th February 2004 at 08:48
We landed at around 14:15 Sunday, was hoping sombody had taken a pic as I had run out of media on my diggy cam.
If you have that would be well cool please try!!!.
regards
Andy
Also to the other reply regarding runway, it was def 06L as on approch we passed over 06R well beofre touchdown as the reason for the long runoff was due to another inboud close behind so guess we took the long run off and he a standard landing cause as we vacated he was on the runway.
By: EAL_KING - 18th February 2004 at 18:08
gladf you had a nice time what time did your flight land at manchester i might have taken a pic of it as i was there on sat and sunday
By: Hand87_5 - 18th February 2004 at 16:32
I’lm glad you had fun mate.
By: Moondance - 18th February 2004 at 15:39
Originally posted by steve rowell
No reverse thrust, are you sure????
Landing on a 10,000ft runway, and vacating at the far end using a Rapid Exit Taxiway (sure you weren’t landing on 06R at MAN Wilag, which fits that description), there is little need to use reverse thrust. Minimum Runway Occupancy is a very important consideration at busy airports – landing on 06R at MAN, far better use a low autobrake setting, idle reverse (just as a backup to the brakes) and keep the speed up to vacate on the RET at the far end doing 20-30 kts.
Using full reverse in the MAN example, you would then probably have to ADD thrust after landing to keep the speed up, to avoid upsetting ATC who could have another lander very close behind.
By: wilag - 18th February 2004 at 09:49
Trip Report Man to Toulouse
A definate no, as I was sat right next to the engine and no deployment was used and no noise increase, guess just a good landing by the pilot.
By: steve rowell - 18th February 2004 at 09:37
No reverse thrust, are you sure????
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February 18, 2004 at 9:25 am