RE: Virgin A346 at Farnborough

Great looking plane, saw it on Monday at EMA doing ciruits (see other post), stood at the end of the runway and it flew very, very low straight over the top of me.

PS The aircraft made its first revenue flight today to JFK (VS009 1830). Apparently it will mainly be used on Hong Kong, Tokyo and JFK routes.

RE: Hi, new to the forum

Welcome to the forum, from a fellow A330 fan!

RE: Anyone know the best day f

Your name hasn’t come out properly, all its says is a greek island begining with’t, perhaps Thessaloniki?

Anyway weekends aren’t always good, Palma is best at the weekend but Arrecife is better on Thursdays, Sundays and Tuesdays, dead quiet on Sat.
Anyway, best thing to do is to go to airliners.net and see who has taken a few pictures there and e-mail them, you may even see a pic of a novair A330 and / or Condor 753 with the date already written in, you can grad your calender and see what day it was. Its what I usually do and most photographers are happy to respond to the requests.

RE: Article on plane spotting

My parents used to encourage it, I used to get a lift to the airports a few times a year, although its much better now I can drive myself and go whenever I want!

I get a lot of stick at work but laugh it off, none of its nasty but there are a lot of jokes that fly my way. I actually think if I showed some of the photos they’d be quite impressed.

The article above is good in that it gives some publicity, but it does make us all out to be geeks and isn’t at all complimentary.

RE: Cannon EOS 300

Hey Roger, glad you recommend the 75-300mm IS as thats the one I’m getting! Jessops are being a little slow though, nearly two weeks since I ordered it!

RE: Cannon EOS 300

I’ve been using this camera for a couple of years. It is an excellent camera! I’ve recently upgraded to a D30, but only cause its digital, kept my EOS 300 I don’t want to see it go!

Talking about a lens, I have a Tamron 100-300mm available very soon, be looking for about £50 if your interested.

Tips: Use ISO 100 film and try to shoot in bright sunshine most of the time (difficult for UK I know!).

I’m sure you’ll enjoy your new toy!

RE: If you don’t fit the seat, pay for two

This is absolutely right!

Basically when you buy your ticket you buy a seat for the duration of the flight and thats it, if you need two you pay for two, its as simple as that!
Its NOT discrimination at all. Imagine if the plane was full of fat people who needed two seats each, the airline would only get half the money than they would if it was full of normal sized people.

I totally agree with this and hope other airlines follow suit.