Stansted Piccies 16/02/04

That is exactly what I thought! When I got there it would be just Ryanair and Easyjet. I certainly didn’t expect to see a DC8! 🙂

Originally posted by T5
Excellent shots. Didn’t realise there was so much at Stansted. I thought it was just all Ryanair! Really like that Excel Airways/Ryanair 737-800 loitering in the background of one of the shots! 🙂

Thanks for the comment Michael. Yep I think that’s the idea that a lot of people get when Stansted is mentioned! As you can see from that list though, a very large majority of the aircraft are Ryanair, but there are still a fair few others to break them up and make it more interesting.

Excellent shots. Didn’t realise there was so much at Stansted. I thought it was just all Ryanair! Really like that Excel Airways/Ryanair 737-800 loitering in the background of one of the shots! 🙂

Their food is excellant, give me more of their korma and tikka anyday! 😀

Originally posted by RIPConcorde
I was also in Bishop’s Stortford! Wow! 😮
My Aunty and Uncle and cousins now live in a tiny village called Albury, you have probably heard of it. The aircraft on approach and departing Stansted fly right over their house! We ate out at an Indian restaurant in Stortford one night. Can’t remember what it was called Shirona or something?? :confused: you may know!
I was at Stansted late afternoon, going by you’r age I don’t think you were there, I’m 16 by the way.
I guess it must have been the MD11 I saw taking off when I was coming back from Duxford! 🙂
I can thank your local for allowing me to see my first MD11 and DC8! 🙂 when I flew in.
Flew in on 13th out on 17th on Easyjet. The terminal building, I have to say is very impressive! 🙂
It won’t be the last time I’m down, I expect I’ll be down in the summer!

I’m glad you like it! I may be biased as it is the airport I’ve grown up around, and is less than 5 miles down the road, but I think that the terminal is one of the best around. I think the Indian restaurant you are talking about is Shadona’s, which is literally about 2-3 mins on foot from my house! I was there the other weekend for a friend’s birthday. And yes I know Albury aswell, I have been on may bike rides through the surrounding woods and the Hadham’s.

I was also in Bishop’s Stortford! Wow! 😮
My Aunty and Uncle and cousins now live in a tiny village called Albury, you have probably heard of it. The aircraft on approach and departing Stansted fly right over their house! We ate out at an Indian restaurant in Stortford one night. Can’t remember what it was called Shirona or something?? :confused: you may know!
I was at Stansted late afternoon, going by you’r age I don’t think you were there, I’m 16 by the way.
I guess it must have been the MD11 I saw taking off when I was coming back from Duxford! 🙂
I can thank your local for allowing me to see my first MD11 and DC8! 🙂 when I flew in.
Flew in on 13th out on 17th on Easyjet. The terminal building, I have to say is very impressive! 🙂
It won’t be the last time I’m down, I expect I’ll be down in the summer!

Originally posted by RIPConcorde
I was there on the 16th!

How come you were down here? Flying? Spotting?

I was there on the 16th!

Thanks for the comments everyone. LBARULES, no I didn’t see either of those aircraft this time, but I can almost guarantee you that even half a days spotting will come up with every aircraft in the Ryanair fleet, aside from maybe one or two that could be in a hangar somewhere. If you were there for half a day, you would see most of them twice aswell!

Greekdude, that SP actually belongs to Saudi Arabian Airlines, and not the royal flight. However, it may be flying for the Royal Flight as the only other Saudi Arabian aircraft I’ve seen at Stansted have been the royal one, such as the Tristar and MD-11’s.

Isn’t that Saudi SP a VIP aircraft?

kool pics dan well done 😀 i really like the saudi 747sp

Brilliant shots as ever Dan. Im gonna have to come to STN one day and see the entire Ryanair fleet! Did you see EI-CJE or EI-CNX?

Ok well as I said, when I next speak to you over msn I can send you some maps and stuff. Because really, you do not want to go trekking around Stansted without knowing where to go! It’s a bloody nightmare, and so is the security. There are a few things I’ve picked up over the years about things you are and aren’t allowed to do, but i’ll go over them with you, otherwise you could find yourself sitting in the police station of my home town, which according to my cousins isn’t very nice! 😉

Originally posted by wannabe pilot
Thanks for the comments! It really is greatly appreciated! 😀 😉

Sandy, are you planning to hang around the terminal all day or actually go spotting? If you are at the terminal, views are fairly limited until you actually go through security, and I think all that time would start to get a bit boring! I’m afraid that I’ll just be arriving in the tropical island of Borneo when you come down this way, and so I will not be able to meet you 😉

If you are planning on doing some proper spotting away from the terminal, I can guide you to several places. Aslong as you don’t mind a bit of a trek though, as it is likely to take you in the region of an hour each way to get anywhere near the approaches. If you do want to do this then I can send you some maps and things over msn to show you where to go, but it’ll still be a bit of a nightmare for you! Traffic wise, you shouldn’t get too bored at first, but the Ryanair’s to get a bit tedious when you start to see the same ones as you did 2 hours before (rather like the BA Buses at Heathrow). Other than those 3 different aircraft I was lucky enough to see yesterday, there wasn’t much else interesting to see other than the usual FedEx’s, a Streamline avaition Shorts 360, and one or two private jets.

However, other days can be a lot better, and May will be in the Summer season so there will be more to see. 2 and a half hours spotting last June at Stansted produced the follwoing aircraft:

Norwegian Air Shuttle 737-300
Saudi Arabian MD-11
Mid East Jet 757
Saudi Arabian SP
MK Airlines DC-8
FedEX mD-11
2 X European 737-200
TNT A300
Asiana Cargo 747-400F
Titan 737-300
CSA 737-500
Balkan Holidays Tu-154M
Euroskylink Piaggio Avanti
BAe Systems BAe-125
Aurigny Saab 340
Air Berlin 146
BA 146

Well they were the interesting aircraft, which makes it seem a bit quiet for 2 and a half hours worth of spotting, aye? Well take those aircraft, and then mix all these in between them all:

11 X Easyjet 737
11 X Ryanair 737-800’s
2 X Ryanair 146’s (Buzz cs)
4 X Ryanair 737-300’s (Hybrid cs)
9 X Ryanair 737-200’s

Dammit, for a student you get around a bit!

NEver mind about the meeting. Tis a shame.

I am planning to leave the airport facility. With 9 hours to waste it would be daft not too.

Thanks for the info!

Thanks for the comments! It really is greatly appreciated! 😀 😉

Sandy, are you planning to hang around the terminal all day or actually go spotting? If you are at the terminal, views are fairly limited until you actually go through security, and I think all that time would start to get a bit boring! I’m afraid that I’ll just be arriving in the tropical island of Borneo when you come down this way, and so I will not be able to meet you 😉

If you are planning on doing some proper spotting away from the terminal, I can guide you to several places. Aslong as you don’t mind a bit of a trek though, as it is likely to take you in the region of an hour each way to get anywhere near the approaches. If you do want to do this then I can send you some maps and things over msn to show you where to go, but it’ll still be a bit of a nightmare for you! Traffic wise, you shouldn’t get too bored at first, but the Ryanair’s to get a bit tedious when you start to see the same ones as you did 2 hours before (rather like the BA Buses at Heathrow). Other than those 3 different aircraft I was lucky enough to see yesterday, there wasn’t much else interesting to see other than the usual FedEx’s, a Streamline avaition Shorts 360, and one or two private jets.

However, other days can be a lot better, and May will be in the Summer season so there will be more to see. 2 and a half hours spotting last June at Stansted produced the follwoing aircraft:

Norwegian Air Shuttle 737-300
Saudi Arabian MD-11
Mid East Jet 757
Saudi Arabian SP
MK Airlines DC-8
FedEX mD-11
2 X European 737-200
TNT A300
Asiana Cargo 747-400F
Titan 737-300
CSA 737-500
Balkan Holidays Tu-154M
Euroskylink Piaggio Avanti
BAe Systems BAe-125
Aurigny Saab 340
Air Berlin 146
BA 146

Well they were the interesting aircraft, which makes it seem a bit quiet for 2 and a half hours worth of spotting, aye? Well take those aircraft, and then mix all these in between them all:

11 X Easyjet 737
11 X Ryanair 737-800’s
2 X Ryanair 146’s (Buzz cs)
4 X Ryanair 737-300’s (Hybrid cs)
9 X Ryanair 737-200’s

Great pics, well done:D 😀 🙂 🙂

Nice pics…awesome in fact.

Excellent Pics

I’ll be in Stansted all day in May (the 8th to be precise).
What kinda traffic can I expect at the airport?
I’m accompanying my grandmother who doesn’t speak a word of english. Once I get her onto an Air Berlin flight to Hanover (around 12noon), I’m free to do some spotting 😉

I’m arriving at around 08:30 with EZY and leaving around 21:30 with EZY.

Atleast, thats whats planned. Need to book the flights. Which should happen this week

Thanks for the comments Skylinerworld and Andy. And no I don’t know why pp is down, probably just a server problem.

And finally, is another Ryanair in the new livery. But this time, it’s my name-sake! EI-DAN. And this is also the aircraft I flew back from PIK on in December, and got to sit in the cockpit.