NIce presentation Tom!
I enjoyed your description of the flight well done… Now tell me(I’m a simple old soul) how do you place photos on this site… I have just had an interesting trip to PMI with Flybe from Exeter in bad weather and would like to share the take off scenes…
Title says it all really 🙂 . I won’t tell the story in detail of my flight up to Glasgow with easyJet, other to say that it was on G-EZDC, it was 10 minutes early and it was an excellent flight.
Now onto what I came for, the Embraer 195 G-FBEA:
After spending a little while wandering around Glasgow Airport, it was finally time to go through to gate 17, where G-FBEA arrived on schedule from Birmingham at 1215. The PAX load was quite low, for both my flight to BHX and the one from BHX, so boarding started at 1230. I was greeted by very friendly cabin crew and whilst waiting for departure, I listened to the Flybe boarding music, consisting of 3 songs, 2 of which being ‘Valerie’ by The Zutons and ‘Fill My Little World’ by The Feeling 🙂 . Boarding was done within 10 minutes and the captain came on and did his usual talk, saying how we’d be cruising at 27000ft and our route was towards Carlisle and Manchester. That done, we pushed back at 1250.
The safety demo was done and we followed a Travel City Direct 747-300 to runway 23 (I think), where after a short delay to allow the 747s wake turbulence to go, we lined up and went. The engines seemed quite loud on 195, louder than I’d expected but it shot down the runway and the climb performance seemed impressive. We flew away into clouds, which lined most of the route:
It was a short flight of only 50 minutes but there was still plenty of time for the cabin service to happen. I’ve found Flybe to be very efficient in doing this and the crew much more polite than any other airline. Descent started just before 1330 and we flew downwind to runway 33 at Birmingham:
After a nice hard touchdown 5 minutes early, we wizzed back to the stand and parked up next to a Dash 8.
Just time after that to take this:
Enjoy. 🙂
super photos!
Most people think of Farnborough as busy for two weeks every other year with a huge international airshow, and for the 2 years in between nothing happens apart from a few biz jet movements. Whilst that might have been the case 5 years ago Farnborough is seriously on the up, and in terms of movements is similar to many of the regional airports such as Belfast City and Southampton.
Today was a very good example of the diversity and interest that Farnborough can bring, with several airliner types intermingling with the vast amounts of biz jets. Business aviation doesnt seem to interest a great deal of people these days, so instead of bombarding you with all the pictures of Citations etc here are my photos over the last few days of the airliner types we have been recieving, intermingled with a few nice biz jets as well 😀
First off is an Eastern Saab 2000 that positioned in from Norwich, and departed out as a charter to Belfast City, not sure if AndrewM has pics from the other end or not.
Next is a G4, in old Saudi Arabian Airlines colours departing to Geneva:
Dornier 328JETs are quite common here, Austrian ones often dominating:
A Global Express operated by the same Company as the first J328:
And finally a member of the Royal Family departing to Manchester:
One detail missing…what camera did you use..Ommaroo would love to know!
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