Originally posted by LBARULES
Love those pics Graham. Especially the China Airlines and one with Concorde in!
Would you recommend the viewing park over the car park or vica versa? Im going to Man on the 20th of Feb.
I must confess it’s the first time I have been to the Aviation Viewing park. I only live 60 miles from Manchester and the only time I really go is dropping off friends and family there (By Request for free !!!).
As far as I can see the facilities at the AVP are wondeful and alot of time and effort has been put in by enthusiasts to make it what it is. There are toilets / food stall and aviation shop there. The only draw back I found is taht there is no where to shelter from the rain (and sitting in the car just steams up the windows and flattens the battery having the wipers going!). On the other hand it’s only idiots like me who go out in that weather. The AVP is fantastic for photographs. Make sure if you go there that it is between 12 and 3 pm because aircraft don’t use the new runway for local issues. Otherwise they are quite away from the AVP. I tried to make sure that I went to both car park and AVP as quite alot of aircraft are parked up out out of site of the AVP and don’t seem to move. WARNING – if you are travelling by car dont park in the terminal for too long unless you have alot of money to burn. My stay of just over an hour cost me £4.50 and as you know, us Northerners don’t like parting with our coin !!!
Have a look at http://www.tasmanchester.com for more information about the AVP.
I will be going again sometime (infact tomorrow when I go to Paris!!) and try and spend a bit longer there so I will be more informed next time !!!
G.
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