Thanks everyone! 🙂

@MSR777 uh, sure they have them, 5 operative and 4 to cannibalize. But the flight to malpensa was published with “we use our brand new 777”.

That’s sad for spotters, but for normal passengers is much better 😀

I like it too, but, you know, a DC-10 would be different!! 😀

Here there are

Them are all taken with my old equipment (Sony A220 + Sony 70-300 f/4.5-5.6), so the quality is really bad, I was a starter photographer 🙂

This is a good photos, but I didn’t saved the RAW file of that one, so, I had to work on the JPG 1200px photo to restore it, the result is what it is.

This one had the original RAW, so I did a better restoring process on it 🙂

Now I have a Sony A900 (love it) and SIGMA 120-400 f/4.5-5.6 :p

In milano, they flew in daylight so rarely that in 2 years, I get them only two times

anks again and thanks to Alberto for alowing us to chat in his supurb thread !

Ah! No problem! This is a discussion forum 😀

This is my home airport, I’m glad to help.

I don’t agree unless you are only interested in landing shots. I got some brilliant taxiing shots from Terminal 1 as you can see in my link. I assume you only take landing shots then ? It’s worth adding that for people who are just interested in spotting and not into photography then Terminal 1 you will see practically everything taxi past the terminal at some point. It’s also a nightmare to get to Ferno unless you hire a car (or you are a local spotter). I had to walk for over an hour from a “nearby” hotel to get there. Taxis are very expensive and 90% won’t even take you to Ferno !

That’s right, but there are some problems at terminal 1 if you are there for photography: the heat distortion will destroy all of your photos in this period, then, the police will give you problem there (tested so much time), but, yes, if you are there not for spotting, then it is a good location too 🙂

Great shots. I spent two days there in Sept 2011 and got loads of great shots. I know that spot for landing. It is on a little hill underneath trees. The terminal 1 is also a great place to spot. Milan Malpensa is my second favourite airport after Seoul Incheon.

Yes, you are right: this is Ferno, the best spot of Malpensa (and the only decent one)
But, at terminal 1, there isn’t a good spotting location: There is the CBC (Crew Briefing Center) close to the Terminal 1, but from here you can get only takeoff of runway 35L in the afternoon, and is good only for heavy aircraft: the light ones, are too high at this point.

The only good spotting point in MXP is Ferno 🙁