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May 13, 2011 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Heathrow tuesday evening #490169

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Nice action shots, Tartan. Love the low sun effect when the landing runway is 27. Was this 27L? Where would you go to take photos when the landing runway is 27R?

May 13, 2011 at 2:51 pm in reply to: RAF Herks with modified nav lights #2344123

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You are correct. The FARs as well as mil regs allow for unlighted nighttime ops for aircraft conducting tactical training in approved areas/routes while using goggles. We are able to set the intensity of our strobes (dim/bright/off) as well as pos and form lights. Useful for goggle ops since you don’t want that stuff blinding you, as well as the tactical benefits of being lights out…..obviously we aren’t going to go in country with pos lights up 🙂 As for flashing, my aircraft has a pinky switch on the left throttle that controls all exterior lighting……forward=on, middle=off, and I can manually flash everything by tapping it backwards.

Thanks for the info, 35 AoA. I appreciate your candid reply. I know some transport pilots at Lynham and Brize but I am a little cautious about asking questions about these operational things because it feels as if I am compromising them from a security point of view. Dumb, I know.

But i have noticed military personel are fairly close-lipped about what they do and it seems rude to push a question on them. I am a former civil pilot but things are not the same for the military as it was in my day in civil aviation so Sometimes I do wonder about stuff I see. 🙂

May 13, 2011 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Turboprop oldies when aircraft looked interesting #490177

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TABSO Antonov An-12

May 13, 2011 at 2:42 pm in reply to: Turboprop oldies when aircraft looked interesting #490180

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An-12

May 13, 2011 at 1:16 pm in reply to: Turboprop oldies when aircraft looked interesting #490181

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You can post more of these any time. That Tarom IL18 is a stunner. See how far ahead of the game Tarom was by putting its name on the underside in large lettering. I believe that there is a middle eastern carrier that adopted the same idea. Nothing new under the sun I guess. Someone once told me that the Romanians did this to avoid their own ground forces accidentally shooting one of their airliners down! Personally, I doubt that there was any truth in that;) Can’t agree with you ref the An12, not ugly, and able to carry a reasonable payload to where it had to go, can’t ask more of a freighter than that:)

I think you may be right about TAROM markings. The Tupolev Tu154 did not have large underwing markings I think. What I like about TAROM is that they had a mixed east/west manufactured fleet.

OK guys, sorry about calling the An-12 ugly! ‘Interesting’ might be a better way of putting it.

May 13, 2011 at 1:11 pm in reply to: Boeing 707 at the end of its life #490183

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Great thread! A beatiful airliner too. I ‘ramped’ many 707s in my time, along with Conair and Maof 720s. I’m sure that the Biman 707s that we handled had a blue fin scheme then.

Yes, the blue-tail livery was Biman’s original 707 livery. I had a photo of that livery too, but not so sharp. Sounds like you worked at a IT holiday airport!

May 13, 2011 at 12:38 am in reply to: Turboprop oldies when aircraft looked interesting #490386

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Thanks guys,

Longshot, I personally love the C-130. Some say it is ugly but I think it is a nicely balanced shape, like the 707. Not seen many An-12s in my life but I can see why you might like it. Especially compared to the earlier An-10.

The Ambassador was at Dan-Air’s Lasham maintenance base but I guess it must have been given to Duxford from the comment. This is how it looked after maybe 2 or 3 years’ of being withdrawn from airline ops.

May 6, 2011 at 1:31 pm in reply to: RAF Herks with modified nav lights #2349923

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If you are not using strobes, or a flashing anti-coll. beacon ,then the nav.lights should flash.
Nav. lights ,strobes,beacons have nothing to do with SKE.

They had white anti-collision strobes working too. 😉

I come from a civil aviation background and I have never seen a civilian aircraft that had the option of flashing the nav lights and all planes I have flown have only had a rotary switch to turn the lights to on or off (the rotary part dims the internal lighting). In civil regs (i.e. CAA’s ANO) it says these red/green/white lights have to be ‘steady’. So this must be a military thing. Which is why I posted on this here. I guess the miliary don’t have to conform to civil air regulations in all aspects of the ANO.

I know an RAF C-17 pilot and I will ask him when I next get to see him.

May 5, 2011 at 1:26 pm in reply to: RAF Herks with modified nav lights #2350865

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I don’t know what ske lights are but these two C-130s were flying at night about 500 feet separation horizontally.

May 4, 2011 at 11:37 pm in reply to: IOW. Sandown and Bembridge both now open #413763

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Having visited both airfields as a non pilot I still have to agree with you. I’m afraid I found Bembridge too cold and impersonal for my liking though I would not have to be pushed very hard to say downright unfriendly. Yes, Sandown was the better and long may it remain that way.

I agree, Bembridge is not a sun-destination airfield. I was there on day and there was a stationary cloud over the Sandown beach. So we trecked back to the airfield and took off from Sandown and was immediately on approach to Bembridge to try to find the sun. We got a tour of Bembridge from the security guard and saw Islanders and Trislanders on the production line. Interesting but not Sandown and sun. 🙂

May 4, 2011 at 11:27 pm in reply to: Novice pilot lands plane safely on busy highway #413765

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Ask his Bank Manager 😀

Damned right! 180 hours is a whole lot of cash.Some of us had to pay a fortune to get 200 hours.

I couldn’t disagree more, Deano! 180hrs is not novice level. It might not be as many hours as someone who flies an office in which the plane does most of the flying, but it is far too much flying to call that pilot a novice. Do I detect a small degree of logbook-licence snobbery, Deano?

May 4, 2011 at 12:51 am in reply to: Novice pilot lands plane safely on busy highway #413874

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That’s how politics survives and crooked business stays alive – naive journalists

Hi VeeOne
There is so much mis-representation or distortion (deliberate or through sheer ignorance) by journalists that crooked politicians and crooked business stay alive.

Feed a naive (un professional non investigative) journalist with ‘fodder’ and they will ‘munch’ happily and regurgitate the ‘rubbish’ extrapolated hundred fold.

nJayM

You are so right!

Sometimes our society seems to be more interested in how things seem than what the actual facts are. The media must make a great tool for those in big business or politics and religion to distribute their propoganda.

I imagine that if the pilot were a true novice Some Journalist would have wrote;

‘Trainee pilot crash-lands on road’.

With a sub-headline;

‘Miracle Escape – Car drivers nearly die… Should private planes be banned from flying over our towns and roads?’

LOL!

May 3, 2011 at 12:37 am in reply to: Novice pilot lands plane safely on busy highway #413880

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Technically I agree but the headline/caption was the ‘work’ of some journalist and all I did was pasted it avoiding misquoting.

Still lucky for the motorists on the busy highway that no one was hurt.:rolleyes:

Yes I agree… Mr Some Journalist is out there a whole lot writing uninformed stuff about aviation. Made a good headline though! 😉

I don’t know about you guys but when I see a news story misrepresented by the media in a subject that I know about (like aviation) I can’t help but wonder about all the other subjects I know nothing about that are being misrepresented to me by Some Journalist or other. 😮

May 3, 2011 at 12:28 am in reply to: General Discussion #334354

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Celebrations at Ground Zero. But a lot of questions as well.

I love the three-holer!

As far as OBL is concerned I’d hoped his goose was well cooked ages ago, thermobarically speaking.

May 3, 2011 at 12:28 am in reply to: Osama Ben Laden is no more… #1868457

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Celebrations at Ground Zero. But a lot of questions as well.

I love the three-holer!

As far as OBL is concerned I’d hoped his goose was well cooked ages ago, thermobarically speaking.
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