My final visit to an Airport in the good weather was another trip to Prestwick on Tuesday 6th where there was clear skies all day.

This was a slow day after the departure of an early morning North American 767 and it wasn’t until 3-50pm that a 747 Freighter arrived followed 40 minutes later by another, both were Atlas ones.

Fred.

Due to the high inner fence at the Mound I prefer to go for tight cropped angles on taxiers or nothing at all as lots of fence at the bottom of a photo ruins it for me.

A friendly wave from the Crew.

This Transavia 737 came over from Amsterdam for the day and did hours of ciruits.

A Ryanair 737 being de-iced before training in the circuit, it did 23 touch and go’s. Pity I just missed the wings being de-iced which I think would have made a better shot.

A visiting Tornado vacates the Runway and heads to Apron Golf for parking.

Departing from Runway 31.

The first of two Atlas 747’s arriving in late afternoon on a perfect clear sunny day.

TOuchdown woith a nice swirl of burning rubber.

A very long distance shot of the 747 vacating the Runway. You can clearly see the ripple in the Runway half way down in this one.

Was surprised the Runway lights were not on by this time at sunset, I got the Piano keys reflected on the rear of the 747 in this one.

Smoke erupts from touchdown.

Hello Kevin,
It takes a while to get to know the inns and outs of a new camera so I’ve already learned a few things in the past 10 days or so with it.

One noticeable thing is that because it’s 10MP when you reduce down to the usual 1024px wide there are less jaggies in it, before I would nearly always look to take out about 75% of sharpening from the wing edges which always shows it worst but with this camera I rarely seem to find the need to do that provided I’m not cropping into it quite a bit of course.

Another nice bonus is that it’s a lot more stable when using a 1.4x Extender attach (using the tape trick) to a Canon 100-400mm lense, it holds focus much better than my other camera and that helps a lot with long distance pictures.

Fred.

Here are another collection of photos from the 12th of October at Prestwick.

Look how small this fellow is he is drawfed by the AN124.

Obviously very little Cargo if any on this one as it departs Southbound with a “Reach” callsign, it was having maintenenace at the Hanger when I arrived.

Very long distance at 400mm plus a 1.4x Extender with a sizeable crop in, I was on 400 ISO for this so it’s a bit grainy without Neat image (yet).

Global Supply pushing off on it’s departure run.

Not too much Runway left as the wheels go up.

Another very long distance shot at 400mm plus 1.4x Extender and crop in, it’s a Futura one.

Yes Peter the first Clip was at Crash gate 3 and a bit tricky to pan it when it was touching down, I bumped the fence a couple of times hence the wobbly bit as it slowed down.

The second was shot at the other end as it left.

Fred.

Peter,
It rained each day including a cracking Thunderstorm on the Friday evening just after we got into the Resturant.

On a different subject can anyone tell me how to attach photos as full sized ones rather than thumbs? I can’t find the info on how to do that.

Fred.

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