I recently found out a friend of mine had never flown before, and offerring to take him on a trip we found a decent £40 return fare from Luton on Easyjet. The flight was at the rather unsociable time of 0600, which meant checking in at 0400, and getting up at 0230 😡 We boarded G-EZJN through the newish international departure area which I had never used before, and within 35 minutes of flying time we landed on runway 06 at AMS, and taxiied swiftly to the gate.
I was hoping to get some arrival shots from the Kaagban, but we had not much money, and my friend was more interested in collecting numbers, so I was happy spotting and photographing from the excellent panorama terrace. Heat Haze was as ever a problem, ruining quite a few shots, but I still managed to get a substantial amount of others.
Very exciting to see this Air Pullmantur 742:
Can you see the landing Citation here?
Another treat, this time a Korean A330, my first time seeing one:
A bad shot, but still quite interesting to see the CSA A320, both of which were in today
By: wannabe pilot - 11th June 2005 at 18:00
Excellent stuff Mark, you jammy git with those free flights!
By: EGNM - 11th June 2005 at 16:37
Just pqssed bqck through AMS on the way home, a bit of a mare as the aircraft went tech and they ended up putting those they could on a Fokker 50 home (a first for me!) – always a great place to visit!
By: steve rowell - 11th June 2005 at 04:55
Those are magnificent shots, a thoroughly enjoyable montage my friend
By: Flyboy Transat - 11th June 2005 at 01:59
Great shots, so …….. tell us more about your magnificent romantic sunset lol
By: T5 - 10th June 2005 at 22:24
Excellent shots Mark, AMS still well on the top of my ‘to do’ list 🙂
Mine too if my finances will allow! Hopefully a trip before the Winter is possible.
Congratulations on producing some fine photographs. All are excellent! 🙂
By: LBARULES - 10th June 2005 at 22:17
Excellent shots Mark, AMS still well on the top of my ‘to do’ list 🙂
By: MANAIRPORTMAD - 10th June 2005 at 20:23
Brill shots!
By: BHXlocal - 10th June 2005 at 20:10
Some great shots there, I do think you struggled a bit with the heat haze but dosen’t everyone! Well done mate 🙂
By: Mark L - 10th June 2005 at 20:07
Great shots! Shame you could not make it to the Kaagbaan. Maybe next time?
I hope so Peter. We departed from the Polderbaan, gives you a real sense of perspective of the size of the airfield when you taxi in a striaght line for 20 minutes across motorways, fields, dykes, more fields, another motorway, and finally onto the runway! :p
By: Humberside - 10th June 2005 at 19:55
Great shots there
By: davforr - 10th June 2005 at 19:32
Well nice to see you both enjoyed yourselves
By: tenthije - 10th June 2005 at 19:29
Great shots! Shame you could not make it to the Kaagbaan. Maybe next time?
By: Mark L - 10th June 2005 at 19:28
Nope wasnt Richard, was a fellow Farnborough spotter called Brian.
By: davforr - 10th June 2005 at 18:59
Great shots Mark its a fantastic airport is Schiphol
was it Richard who flew with you ?
By: bmi-star - 10th June 2005 at 18:44
Great shots Mark, heat haze was deffo your achillies heal on the 1st shots.
By: Mark L - 10th June 2005 at 18:43
Onur Air was a surprise for us as we thought they were still banned
The Tower:
After passing airside we made the long walk to the end of one of the piers, where we were rewarded with comfy chairs, and a superb view of 4 taxiways and 2 runways!
We then boarded G-EZYH for the flight home. As the First Officer so succintly put it “Those of you on the right have a superb view of a magnificent romantic sunset. Those of you on the left have not” Needless to say we were on the right 😀
By: Mark L - 10th June 2005 at 18:40
Onto the KLMs:
Transavia 738 leased to KLM, in full KLM colours was quite interesting too
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