Is looks to me as if you could be using your camera in Program mode.

There is no reason why you should want to use a high ISO 400+ in daylight. No reason why you should want to use 1/1000 on a static shot.

Basically the higher the ISO the faster your shutter will be able to operate. The higher the ISO the noisier your photo is going to be. The faster the shutter goes the more open your lens will go and you will loose depth of field and hence more of your photo will not be in focus. On a bright sunny use 100 or 200 ISO.

Aim to use an aperture of around f8 and work your speed out from there maybe even go onto Av mode at f8

So that’s where the Student went to. I’m sorry to hear of the accident.

I remember it at Glasgow Airport in the care of Captain Mc.Intosh.

Well done, your pictures are worthy of Troy Paiva and Lost America http://www.lostamerica.com/

Some basic camera theory.

You may have heard of a “stop” in photography, ISO changes in stops, each stop is double (or half) the previous, eg. 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 ISO
In just the same way each shutter speed is a stop and they double (or half in the same way eg. 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000. The same goes for apertures.

If you have a light meter setting of say ISO 100, 1/125 then going up to ISO 200 will give you an extra stop and go up to 1/250 by changing the ISO you have increased the shutter speed and may have been able to get the subject that bit more crisply focused.
There is not that much difference in camera noise at 200 (some Nikons have 200 as its lowest ISO setting) and slightly worse at 400 ISO so it is worth experimenting, you have nothing to loose and everything to learn.

First time that I have seen the Lanc since it left Strathallan some 20 years ago… and to think of the hours my friends and I spend patiently scraping off the layers of paint and it ended up like that. Sad. At least some of it was preserved.

Using a single AF point and spot metering will concentrate the exposure on the centre section exposing the aircraft and not the background/sky.

There is the facility to view which AF points were selected in Canon’s Zoombrowser program.

ISO 1000 is roughly three stops over ISO 100, so that would give you something like 1/250 at f8, which should have been good enough. (An IS lens will give another two stops on top of that.)
Not forgetting that the extreme ends of a lens may not be the best as far as image quality goes.