When we got back I took some photos of the other action on the airfield..
After a little while my pilot for the air-to-air trip arrived and introduced himself. We discussed how we were going to do the shoot etc and finally took off around 1730. The plan was to fly North to a large telephone mast about 10 minutes way, meet my friend in his Piper, and then do the shoot from there. Once we met up and were flying side by side, I opened the window on the Cessna. It was incredible windy and loud, and I started getting the camera set up. I have ot say, it was extremely fun, and was quitean adrenaline rush hangingout the window at 5000ft, flying alongside another aircraft. However, it was extremely difficult! I was aiming for the slowest shutter possible, around 1/160th, so as to get the prop blur. This combined with the howling wind blowing my lense around, and me being strapped in to the seat of the Cessna, made for a very challenging situation. It all worked in the end though, and here’s just 2 out of hundreds that I took (I can’t get away with posting too many, as its strictly not airline images!).
Here’s a shot I took just as we were about to land back in Landshut..
Unfortunately, it was all over too quick and the next day I had to fly home. Again it was via Dusseldorf, and I was pleased yet aain to see a Fokker at the gate. It was D-AGPJ, but I think I exhausted Fokker shots from the previous flight. On arrival in DUS I had an hour to kill, so I ran up to the terrace and got a few nice close-up shots..
I then departed home to Stansted on D-ABBN (again, my third time on that bl00dy aircraft!). I had a very nice overview of the terminal was we climbed out, followed by an interesting shot of our shadow as we broke the clouds..
Finally, to finish off quite an incredible trip, I had an excellent overview of Stansted whilst on short finals.
I hope you enjoyed my report/photos, and I hope Grey Area forgives me for the General Aviation shots!
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