Have your walking shoes on!
Out of the terminal and turn right and follow the main road, past the small roundabout beside the car hire and park places, at the entrace. Walk along this on the grass, there’s no footpath but a hardshoulder about half a mile along. Walk past the entrance to the fuel depot and checkpoint, past the ‘Welcome to Antrim’ sign and flowerbed on the road, past the small road where the taxi park and the barrier saying ‘No entry.’ Ok you could use it for photography but I’ve never tried it and it is south facing.
Keep going, past the large white country cottage on your right, and take the next right turn into a small road with a 7.5t weight restriction on, called Drennan’s Road. Another 5 mins along this takes you into the approach lights.
Beware of the dogs just as you turn into this road in one of the gardens, vicious things but anytime I have been by, they have been penned in. You can stop in the cottage, Ballyrobin Inn, for lunch after 12. It’s about 30 mins walk from the terminal to the spot on the road. There’s nowhere to sit around here except maybe on a field gate or on the wall outside the church hall further along the road, nearer the crossroads. There is a vehicle control zone along it but I’ve never had any bother standing in it. The road can be quiet on busy, usually always some traffic passing by. It’s only good for 25 arrivals, majority of 07 departures from here would be too high and too much of an undercarriage shot.
There is another place for 25 departures but it’s just as far a walk turning left when you leave the terminal, southfacing and further away for shots. If you want to know where it is, say and I’ll type it up.
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