Planes and stuff

 First time I got JetTime with this livery. OY-JZM, B738 arriving at Madeira, from Copenhagen.

First time I publish here a Sunclass A321NEO...not sure if it was the first time I got them but, if I did, the pics remained hidden on the archives so, probably nothing worth sharing..  :) OY-VKA, A321NEO, arriving from Copenhagen, back in Oct.21st Curiously, got, a few years ago, another A321 OY-VKA, but of the 211 model (not NEO), flying for Thomas Cook Scandinavia...currently this plane it stored, after flying to Air Senegal, as 6V-AMC. Check HERE

 Air Baltic made its first flight to Madeira yesterday. It was quite dificult to make its firs landing at Madeira as it was one of those out of limits winds days... Good for me :) It should have arrived form Riga during the morning, when I couldn't be at the airport but due to the winds it diverted to Las Palmas and only came to Madeira during the afternoon...even then, it didn't land at the first atempt, with a go-around in the begining of long final... Finally it managed to land after another go to the IAP and full approach... A220-300 YL-ABU, on 05... It's been quite a long time I wanted to see this one around here, specially with the beautiful A220 A part of the apron during the last sunlight, with BA, TUI UK and Condor A321NEO Condor A321NEO D-ANMX and YL-ABU...quite a lot of green :) And a shot on the go-around of the afternoon...

Hoje, a estrela do dia foi o Air Baltic, na sua estreia mas, por agora, ficam um par de registos originados numa inesperada missão do EH-101 destacado no AM3 - Porto Santo, que foi efetuar um resgate a um navio, em alto-mar. Como este destacamento ainda não dispõe de comandante de EH a tempo inteiro, houve também oportunidade de uns cliques à sua "boleia", que aproveitou para uns treinos para LPMA/FNC... Com o heli a chegar já depois do sol ter desaparecido atrás das montanhas (tal como o Falcon), as condições não foram as melhores para fotos mas, valia sempre a pena uns cliques, mesmo que a 1/80, f5.6 a 300mm com ISO800, no caso do EH e  1/60, f5.6 a 135mm com ISO800, no caso do touch&go do Falcon 50...Podiam ter ficado melhores mas, também podiam ter ficado bem piores... (e a maioria ficou... :P  )  

CSA, Czech Airlines makes its last flight today, after 101 years of operation. OK767 flight, carried by A320 OK-IOO that held the 100 years speciall livery last year, will be the airline's last flight, from Paris - CDG to Prague - PRG, later today, before fully merging with Smartwings. Looks like CSA colors will still be carried by at least 2 airplanes in the future. You can check all the CSA pic's I got, HERE . Curiously, got OK-IOO last year, in June, performing a flight to Prague:

 An airline that is not that common at Madeira...Heston Airlines. Also the first time I got one of their A320 with sharklets... On short final to Madeira's runway 05, A320 LY-DOM, from Tallinn

Netjets Europe Embraer Phenom 300 CS-PHH arriving at Madeira's runway 05, from LIS. Afterwards would depart to Jersey.

Back to July, an overview, on a day planes were beeing diverted from Madeira, probably due to wind out of limits...can't remember...(could be visibility but, more probably, winds...)