Well done! Best you get stuck back into those GCSE revision books! No matter how awful they are. Somnething which I am gonna have to start doing this time next year : (

It’s a shame you didn’t get to see anything all that interesting. I still really like the 146’s though, especially the bright scheme. Great pics, lucky for you the forum will let you post them, inlike some of us.

I just tried putting a picture from my Heathrow trip yesterday onto the thread ‘put your findings here’ and it still isn’t working (for me anyway)

Happy Birthday. Get anything good? Or anything that might interest us????????

Ok, the flightpath in/out of Stansted is about 2 miles infront of my house so out of my bedroom window, depending on the runway direction I can see them taking off or landing. When they are taking off, they fly past my house at around 1500ft and depending on where they are going, either turn left almost directly away from me, or fly right round past my back garden, so I get an even closer look at them. When they are landing the are roughly 1000ft and I just get to see them fly past. As my house is situated right at the top of many hills, I’m pretty sure that if it weren’t for all the trees and other houses in the way, on a clear day I would be able to actually see the airport, as looking on an ordinance survey map of the are, it looks like the end of the runway is about 4 1/2 miles directly infront of my house. I have a pair of focus free binoculars which are amazingly clear, they just need to be a bit stronger to get the reg’s. I also get the heavy’s outbound from Heathrow to the far-east flying directly over my house. They are actually pretty low, I can usually make them out without binoculares (usually SIA 747’s, ANA and VA A340’s)

This is what I have seen last take off in the last 1/2 hour or so in the order that I have seen them:

Ryanair 737-800
Citation
European Aviation 737-200
Air 2000 A321 (new cs)
Ryanair 737-800
Ryanair 737-800
FedEx MD-11
Titan airways KingAir
Ryanair 737-800
Ryanair 737-300 (Hybrid buzz cs)
European Aviation 737-200
Easyjet 737-300

Flying right over:
Delta 767(Heading westwards at 30,000ft or so)
Falcon 90 (I always see this but can never make out where it’s come from and where it’s going to)

From Heathrow:
SAS MD 80 (North Eastwards)
Lufthansa A321 (Eastwards)
BA 757 (Eastwards)

Nothing special but I was quite lucky to see the Titan KingAir as they usually turn too quick before they get to me. The ones from Heathrow were easy enough to identify without the binoculars

If I see anything different I will post it on here, and like Andrew said, see who can come up with the most interesting/different one.

Wow, I didn’t realise he flew for Aurigny. That has always been my dream, short island hopping flights, manual flying, the good old way. I have recently decided against it though because I have heard that flying the props is not excellent pay, eventhough on the island hopping flights there isn’t a chance to use autopilot, making the job more difficult. More recently I am thinking of trying my very, very hardest in A-levels to get into a university to do a degree in Aeronautics, I know that at the Hatfield university you get to do your PPL whilst doing the degree. Then, as I don’t think I have any chance of being able to afford to do my CPL and ATPL privately, my only hope is a sponsorship. I know they are extremely rare and hard to get, but with an aeronautics degree behind me it will hopefully show lots of commitment and then when the chance does arise, I have more chance than other people of being accepted.

I think CTC McAlpine will be good, because although I doubt I will be good enough to be sponsored by Thomas Cook staright away, I could start lower down the ranks at Easyjet and get a bit of experience so that I can fly for a charter airline slightly later on in my career.

I know that there are lots of ways of going about it, but how exactly did you do it wys, and any other pilots out there?

I know that you can buy world air routes DVD’s mail order from the airlinerworld magazine. I think they usually have a page selling stuff like mouse mats and T-shirts, which also has world air routes to sell. I have a couple myself, Air Namibia 747 and 737, Aurigny Saab 340, Trislander and Shorts 360, and also the islandflug which had the Do 228. They are all good, with clear picture and sound, and the destinations are quite exciting aswell. Nothing beats the Aurigny one, especially as they have trislanders (my favourite) and also because they fly to Stansted. The islandflug is also intersting as they fly the Do 228 into very small airstrips. One thing they could do more often though is take the camera into the cabin and do some filming out of the window, now that would remind me of going on holiday.