No at this moment there are no major polder projects in Holland.

You sure about that? The 2de Maasvlakte near Rotterdam is I believe still in the process of being reclaimed? Or has the reclamation already finished? I lost track on that project. Other then that I don’t think there are any projects going on. Lots of ambitious plans though.

Wasn’t there a recent story about a Canadian court case where they ruled being obese/huge/hugely fat was a disability and passenegers could not be forced to pay extra?

There was, and the article mentions it too. But Canadian jurisprudence has no influence on Australian law and jurisprudence. Unless there is some Commonwealth law linking the two, but that would surprise me a lot.

I don’t know much about Manston, but I think I would if they had regular DC-8s and 707s operating from there! 😉
Perhaps theres one or two sitting idle there? Is that what you mean?

There is at least 1 MK Airlines DC-8 sitting there awaiting better times. And those times may well come as the Aviodrome museum is looking at buying it. However, that plane is no longer airworthy. If the Aviodrome manages to buy the plane, it will be shipped over.

So much for the crappy weather! It’s very nice today and was nice yesterday too

Thanks for not rubbing it in.

OOo, I’m jealous. Share your pictures.

Sorry, that flight was before I got a digital camera. The prints are somewhere in a box in the attic. Besides, considering the quality of my point-and-shoot compact back then I’m sure you won’t find them that interesting. Even I am not particularly interested in them!

That flight must have been around 13 or 14 years ago! Still remember it vividly though! G-AKIF, my first flight ever.

Hi all, just wondered if anyone here has done much spotting/photography at Madrd Barajas, and in particular did anyone fly in there to do so? STN-MAD day return in March on Ryanair is £10 inc taxes etc, pretty damn good for a flight to a major airport! I’m definitely thinking of going down there but not sure if anywhere is easily accessible for photos, or if you need locals knowledge/access to a car to get anywhere for photos.

MAD is one of my favourite airports to go spotting! It’s a very good place.

You can spot planes from one of the snackbars in one of the terminals, but I must admit I forgot which terminal, definately one of the older ones. Views here are poor as your are facing through dirty glass.

Much better is a spot on the perimeter. It takes a while to walk there, but it is quite worth the effort. There is a small sand-path leading up an embankment near the intersection marked M110 on below map. If you follow that path you will end up at the spotters area. Here planes taxi past closely.With my 70-200MM I could easily handle all the movements, though everything roughly sized B772 and larger would not fit side-on. Movements at T4′ sattelite terminal can be seen, and the A340-600s can even be photographed due to their large size, but expect heathaze to be a killer. This spot will be best between 12:00 and sundawn, earlier and the sun will be facing you.

You are in the middle of nowhere, so prepare yourself by bringing something to drink/eat.

I’d rather fly out monday morning, return monday night but no…a day return is about £450

You can also go for a one night stay saturday to sunday. Since most interesting planes are early morning arrivals you might as well take that option. The afternoon can be spend quite nicely in town.