Excellent stuff there, I can’t wait to get back to BHX in slightly more favourable weather than when I was there last time.

We can post detailed directions of how to get to the roof-top nearer the time for the people who don’t know it particularly well. But it pretty much involves following signs for the short-stay car park, and then getting on the lift all the way to the top floor (13). I don’t mind, either waiting for Stuart and Matt in the arrivals area, or all just head up to the roof-top by our own accord and meet people there.

I’ll need to think of something to make myself identifiable….it was funny the first time I met Mark L last Summer at BFS I was missing an eyebrow and had a broken foot! It took him a few seconds of staring me in the face in the middle of the airport, before introducing himself ‘ah you must be Dan, you’ve got one eyebrow’ 😀

I’m planning on dying my hair purple at some point….that might work :diablo:

Ill spot anywhere, though I have never been round to the southside…

Have been discussing with Kev. I guess it’s mainly upto T5 and A330Crazy as they were the one who proposed the meet originally. But we were thinking it’d make sense to start the day off on the roof top, because people arrive at different times and we can congregate there before planning the rest of the day.

The South side would be great, but it may prove difficult with getting there (I suppose there’s always the possibility of a taxi….between 4 of us in each taxi wouldn’t cost much).

Visit the AVP sometime towards the afternoon when the sun comes round for photos (take full advantage of opurtunities to get so close to the aircraft, it doesn’t happen at many other airports). And then if they’re on 24L the pub.

Something like that anyway, we’ve got a while to finalise it. And give chance for A330Crazy and T5 to have their input.

Good to hear. Neil, I’ve been looking through your photos on planepictures.net of AWZK, and can’t believe how simple the cockpit appears! Is that the same as it was the day it bowed out of service? Because if so, it seems to put some other aircraft to shame. For example, MD-82:

As I said in the PM, I’m up for it. Although I wont be looking to book til November time, as my money is very much spoken for for the Summer.