Am I missing something?

How can Aeroflot and various other russian carriers be allowed so many services into Germany and Austria if the national carriers of those countries have limitations placed on them if they want to fly into russia?

Surely something like this has to work both ways, no?

A nice idea…

As the one who started the Airline of the Week threads from which these threads have spawned I’d like to add my two cents.

The original limit of 1 Photo for the PIA thread was so largely ignored that I decided to increase the limit depending on the airline for future weeks.

This week we’re looking for qantas pictures so it is silly to have all us Europeans and Americans posting all our A380 and Boeing 747 shots, many taken at LHR with many of the same angle.

One of the things I love about these threads is that we’re encouraging posts from people who don’t normally upload. These threads aren’t about showcasing a.net or jp.net quality photos, they’re about encouraging a community spirit of people uploading shots, regardless of whether or not they think they’re “good enough”.

I’ve been really pleased with the responses to these threads, but if there are 20 posts (???) per page and everyone uploads 5 pictures, that’s 100 pictures to load. And that’s just crazy!

So let’s be polite, and lets not have anyone taking over. I’m 100% with PMN on this, but if you absolutely must post more than the stated number of pictures (and i can’t think why anyone would), at least external links don’t take up too much bandwidth (but i assure you that i’m leaving it to you to choose your best shots, and i’m not clicking on any of these links).

It’s all about self-screening. In the case of the MD11 thread, what’s the point in one individual uploading all their UPS pictures?

I spend a good few minutes picking my best or most diverse shots. As should everyone else. I have 106 A320 shots on my website, shall I just upload all of those?

Another quite difficult choice…

Soon to be a thing of the past…

This one flew JetBlue’s first service between JFK and FLL back in 2000

And this one’s just a bit different

An excellent start.

My one suggestion would be to shoot with the sun behind you. This isn’t easy from the AVP at Manchester, but if you photograph aircraft as they taxi out from the stands, the lighting will generally be better.

If the light is on the side of the aircraft, the details stand out a lot more.

This isn’t a terribly good example (someone else may have a better one) but look at the picture below. The JetBlue Airbus is in full sun, but the Delta aircraft behind is in the shadow. You can see the details are much clearer on the Airbus because the sun is shining on it:

If you have a car, there are lots of much better spots at Manchester where the lighting issues won’t be a problem

with the Christmas day attemped plot to blow up a plane, i think it is a bit naughty that over here in the UK cheese strings have an advert running where a cartoon cheese string keeps telling a dumb check in girl he is carrying milk, and it takes an age before she alerts security:eek:

Cartoon cheese? I thought he was real 🙂

You can resolve the sun problems just by walking under the bridge and up the verge on the other side. You can’t miss the bridge from the terminal 🙂

Excellent shots also possible from an area just next to the terminal overlooking the stands where Wizz and Monarch tend to park (and other aircraft taxi by on the Delta taxiway).

Full details can be found here:

http://andrew-butcher.fotopic.net/p50209789.html