Tom:
Never noticed the green Volvo, but, remember seeing a couple of young lads right at the fence to the bin area by the gate?? possibly you two??. I was mostly hibernating in my wee white van parked at the back beside the staff car park, only venturing out to shoot now and again.

Yep that was us, small world! 😀

I was at the petrol station indeed! the green Volvo S40 driver :D. I was standing sort of in front of those bins with a friend of mine…..there were a hell of alot of people in that small area.

Reckon you saw me? and ta for the comments by the way :D.

Don’t reckon I can beat you on the busy driving day either ;).

What’s that behind the XL 737 ? Is it a 146 departing or something ?

Not on about the bird are you?:diablo:

I haven’t been to LGW for ages. What’s ot like at that spot at 08 … as
in is it easy to avoid getting bits of fence in your shots ? I seem to remember
a DC10 being around 50-60mm side on from there. These were at times when
we were lucky to be able to shoot through the hole for the lock on the gate
as there were no other photographers there.

Well the shots of the NW/XL/EK were taken from the gate and it was no problem at all and the lens sounds about right, admittedly I can see it being sort of a scrum in the summer like you say with loads of other spotters but that’s really unavoidable.

As for the car park at the pub. Is it possible to reach the pub without a car ?
Is there any public transport goes bye the place where the pub is ?

Ask the other Tom ^ :D.

Ta for the comments people :).

Lovely pics–especially the Olympic A340 and NWA–you must have been there when they changed the runway ends to 08R as the OA was one of the last ones to go off 26L!!
Were you at the crash gate in the Lowfield Heath Rd?
Happy Spotting!

Spot on Charley B, I’m not entirely sure of the road name but from your description that sounds exactly like the place we were at. We preety much got there as the last 2 departures left 26L one of which as you say was the Olympic A340 which climbed dissapointingly quickly! we were hoping it would just clear the roof of the car :diablo:.