Deano Drops In to NWI !

Dean. Yes please send your email, via this forum ? and I will select the better of the rest and mail to you with pleasure 🙂
Thak you for your nice comments.

Keith.

Thanks Dean. Those are possibly the best of the photos I have ?? but there are more ??? Looking at photo 2 your MLG position with reference to the PAPSI ? (vasi) in my day ? looks pretty spot on ? most of my comments are ‘tounge in cheek’ having watched a lot of landings by your team ! you all seem to handle the beast very well ??

Keith.

Keith

Can I send you my email address for you to email some of the others you have? I think I have a 10mb limit, I’m not interested in 20 more or anything, just a few will do if that’s ok?

Keith VASIs still exist, this is Visual Approach Slope Indicator. They normally involve 2 lights instead of the 4 belonging to the PAPI, or Precision Approach Path Indicator, and are normally found on runways without an instrument approach associated with it.
As for crew handling, remember we get alot of practice, in the last year alone I think I’ve done more than 250 take offs & landings, this is compared to a long haul pilot of doing 12 per year (if he’s lucky)

EGPH – I guess it all boils down to cost at the end of the day, you can get some cheap BE tickets but it’s all about timing when booking. Will be good to have you on board if you do decide to use us.

Jay – At the point of rotate is where you normally see the vortices, or coming in to land. This is where “lift” is at it’s highest, especially as we pull back to rotate because we increase the angle of attack the most thus creating the greatest pressure differential.

Kabir & Bristol_Rob – Cheers, we do our best, the thing with the Q400 is it can really bite you if you mis-handle it, those 4.11m diameter props are nasty things if things go wrong, also because of them we have to be careful when coming in to land as well that the power is handled correctly. Mis-handled at Flap 15 can cause a tail strike, and at Flap 35 a nose-in landing.
I always try and wave at the photographers and the by-standers in car parks etc.

Anyway I am sick of the sight of a Dash 8 this week, I am off to enjoy a well earned day off.

Laters.

Then it’s more accolades to the photographer

Thanks everyone for your comments …. Jay, there is no trickery in the photos, I assume you refer to the water “corkscrew” this often happens in heavy rain situations, particularly at high speed, always looks better from the side, sorry have no examples to show, but maybe someone else could provide a sample ??

Keith.

Keith

Thanks for the explanation and it makes an even better pic since you have captured something I did not know was so picturesque.

More accolades for the excellent pics in that case.

Keep up the excellent work.

Jay

Great catch of a Member of the family Keith 😀

And Excellent Flying Deano, Nice to know you are one of those that Wave to us Snappers 😛

Makes it more worth it i think

Hope to fly with you one day

Rob
🙂

Thanks everyone for your comments …. Jay, there is no trickery in the photos, I assume you refer to the water “corkscrew” this often happens in heavy rain situations, particularly at high speed, always looks better from the side, sorry have no examples to show, but maybe someone else could provide a sample ??

Keith.

Great flying Deano and superb pics keith

Deano and Keith,

Will one of you please satisfy my curiosity and tell me if it’s purely camera chicanery in the penultimate pic?

Excellently entertaining and professional flying and photography.

Thks

Jay

good to know you can operate those things Deano. :diablo:

great shots!

Some great shots there. The wet runway always makes for better pics in my opinion!!

I should really choose BE over EZY one day for one of my regular EDI-BFS (BHD) trips!!

Thanks Dean. Those are possibly the best of the photos I have ?? but there are more ??? Looking at photo 2 your MLG position with reference to the PAPSI ? (vasi) in my day ? looks pretty spot on ? most of my comments are ‘tounge in cheek’ having watched a lot of landings by your team ! you all seem to handle the beast very well ??

Keith.

Haha if only Newforest.

Great pics Keith, the approach was made using Flap 35, this means a negative nose attitude for the approach of between 2° & 3°

A couple of passengers commented on the great landing, I told them not to get too excited, it was a fluke and doesn’t happen very often so make the most of it 😀

Unfortunately Keith that’s just the ground handlers on the apron, I think it was my turn to make the tea for the crew 😀

I waved as I saw a photographer on the side, I didn’t see you though Keith

Loving the prop vortices, a view we never get to see from the flightdeck.

In the last one we’re maintaining a runway heading track, but the wind was moderate from the north meaning a heading into wind after take off.

Keith are these the only ones you took? Thanks again, I’ll be there again on Tuesday about 12:50 if you’re around 😉

Dean

Nailed it, take the week off! 😀