Manchester photos part 2 of 3 (21/4/06)

Thanks for the Sun Air clear-up.

Also will My travel ever get round to painting that Airbus A320.

I doubt it very much, It’s just on lease from Skyservice for the summer. Their selling their own aircraft and leasing from other airlines, whats up with them?

Another fantastic set of shots – just of to look at part 3!

Another load off brilliant pictures.

james

Hi, Nice Pic’s there mate.

Noticed that you manage to see the long term resident My Travel B757-200 G-PIDS on her last flight from Manchester. She was re-reged last week onto the US register and reoqantied with her engines on Friday. Then on Saturday morning she was fuel up. She left MAN on a ferry flight to the US. As it has been bought by US Cargo carrier Evergreen International.

Also will My travel ever get round to painting that Airbus A320. She looks horrid in that current livery.

love the Air China landing shot particularly :).

LOL, lets hope nobody working for the Chinese Government is sat looking at this site…they’ll be having kittens at this comment (I can just see them pressing emergency alarm buttons), I think you mean China Airlines, from Taiwan, which is not recognised as a seperate country by mainland China where Air China originates from. 😀

Not saying it was in this case but do they do this every time a light bulb goes – surely perhaps procedure could be to replace the lightbulb before declaring emergency, not an easy task but should be made easy,

Wozza

I’m not sure whether the bulb had actually gone, it could have been some other fault, wiring or sensory for example. There are so many reasons for this potential problem that it would be unrealistic to expect a pilot to mess around changing a bulb. Studies show that landing is the most stressful period of any flight for the pilots, whilst I acknowledge that having to declare a full emergency landing would just add to the stress, I don’t think it would be fair to expect a pilot to have to start dealing with a bulb replacement along with multiple checks and whilst monitoring the aircraft itself and the crowded skies in which they are flying, so in some ways I would guess that it is more approriate to follow this procedure.

When they retracted the gear (left or right, can’t remember) the green light to show that they are locked didn’t show, they made a low fly-by to see if the gear was infact down before making a full emergency landing.

Not saying it was in this case but do they do this every time a light bulb goes – surely perhaps procedure could be to replace the lightbulb before declaring emergency, not an easy task but should be made easy,

Wozza

Nice Pics Why, Didnt the landing gear lock ?

Excellent shots again! 😀

More great shots!

nice shots there

peter

Anybody know why the BA/Sun Air made a full emergency landing?

When they retracted the gear (left or right, can’t remember) the green light to show that they are locked didn’t show, they made a low fly-by to see if the gear was infact down before making a full emergency landing.

Nice shots btw, weather looks abit dull.

Thanks Tom. I like getting shots just after it’s rained, the spray give a good affect.

Last ones from day two………….

Some more excellent shots there, love the Air China landing shot particularly :).