Planes and stuff

Shooting Easyjet's at late afternoon is a good oportunity to try some panning shots.... Not too eager on the pot...1/30 turned out ok on the back and on the plane (except for the engine...) A320 OE-IBF. arriving from Lisbon

Today, again another windy day at Madeira.  The wind wasn't out of limits but made some landings quite hard and at least one diversion... In less than an hour at the airport, saw 4 or 5 go arounds... Condor A321 D-ANLB, from Dusseldorf was one of them with a couple of go-arounds before landing on third atempt. First one, with a sturdy touchdown....and then, after the rebound, it made the go around, pushing the engines and fighting with the wind... On the second atempt, it started going around on final, with engines screaming... It landed on third atempt but then I had already left... A job well done for the pilots on bringing everyone safe.

Tivemos esta manhã, pelo aeroporto da Madeira, o Falcon 50 17403, operado pela Esquadra 504 numa missão de transporte médico. A paragem foi bem rápida, ficando no A01 apenas o tempo para efetuar o embarque, partindo depois pela 05, numa descolagem suave. Teria sido interessante apanhá-lo na final para a 05 mas, quando cheguei à zona do aeroporto, já estava a finalizar o embarque e de portas fechadas, quando cheguei à varanda. Ainda não foi desta que tive oportunindade de fotografar o Falcon 900....paciência...

It's allways nice to get Tuifly D-ATUZ, with the RIU Hotels special livery. In this case, double luck...was one of those days, when the wind causes real problems at LPMA...during the afternoon a lot of planes had trouble landing and diverted or went to holding. Just after I arrived, the Tuifly got the clearance to land....and right after the landing, the winds went out of limits again for at least one more hour....so, a quick stop that really payed for getting this one...

 Um registo do chamado heliporto do Hospital Central do Funchal, com exatamente 20 anos... Desde sempre uma infraestrutura polémica, devido à sua operacionalidade, e há muito um terraço, sem qualquer utilidade operacional que não seja tapar a chuva (se é que não falha até nisso...)

 This month we had United back to Madeira, from EWR, with its B737 MAX8 birds... Currently not really fond on US Americans but, a diferent traffic is a diferent traffic... (by the way, if you are one of those stupid red necks offended by my last sentence and feel compeled to protest...don't. Comments are moderated and will be deleted without even reading, because I don't give a fuck on your opinion...You allways have the option to go to the Madeira of the Pacific....)

 A unusual visitor at Madeira, a Pilatus PC-12 Flexflight OY-RSE taxiing to runway 05 (to the end....no middle point take offs allowed :)  ) A long flight ahead, with the first leg to Cascais (CAT/LPCS)

  After quite some time without a decent spotting, this week went for less than a couple of hours, in the morning, to the airport and was well worth it...a few interesting stuff and a great light. The first time I got and Edelweiss A320NEO, despite it have been around here for a few times... HB-JDB, arriving from Zurich. A former Swiss Air plane, received in 2020 and transfered to Edelweiss in March 2026.