Voo de despedida...

Hoje tive oportunidade de efectuar alguns registos aos últimos voos de um Comandante da TAP que se irá reformar.

É sempre uma ocasião fantástica ver fechar com "chave de ouro" uma longa carreira na aviação!

Parabéns e felicidades!

Ficam alguns dos registos obtidos à chegada e saída do A319 CS-TTS...

Aterragem na 05..

Chegada ao stand

push-back para a 05

saída, de regresso a Lisboa, com o Q400 CS-TRG da Sata em primeiro plano

Primeira fornada de Sata...

 Por incrível que possa parecer, ainda não tinha tratado ou publicado fotos da Sata tiradas este ano...
Apesar de alguns registos feitos ao longo do ano aos habituais Q400, parece que nenhum motivou grande vontade de ser tratado para colocar no blog ou sites habituais...
Ficam então um par de fotos de ontem, da chegada / saída do CS-TRG:

aterragem na 05, de Canárias.
Foto tirada a 1/30...deve ter sido a primeira vez (ou das pouquíssimas vezes...) que consegui fazer um panning a esta velocidade com resultados satisfatórios...

Descolagem, ao final da tarde, para Ponta Delgada

Foto da semana: Sata, a Despedida da Base FNC

A semana passada ficou marcada pelo final dos voos Sata a partir da sua base no Funchal, com a respectiva retirada do aparelho Airbus A320 que até então estava baseado cá na Madeira.

Madeira/Paris-Orly/Madeira foi o último voo efectuado com um aparelho Sata baseado na Madeira.

Chegada do CS-TKP de Paris-Orly (ORY/LFPO) no último voo da base FNC

No holding point do taxiway "Charlie" estava outro A320 da Sata, o CS-TKO, que se preparava para regressar a Lisboa, num voo que devia estar relacionado com o fecho da base FNC, uma vez que não era voo regular de passageiros

O Q400 (CS-TRG, ao fundo) irá manter os voos desde Ponta Delgada, continuando até Las Palmas,
além dos voos Ponta Delgada-Funchal-Faro e regresso no Verão.

partida do CS-TKO para Lisboa

Após último voo da base FNC, o CS-TKP não perdeu tempo a abandonar a região, com destino ao Porto.
Taxiando para a 05, com o especial Easyjet 200th Airbus G-EZUI por trás, dando colorido à placa.

Segundo consta, o CS-TKP será alugado à Thomas Cook Belgium, para a operação de Verão desta companhia belga.

Partida do TKP posicionado para o Porto...é o final de uma era iniciada em 1995....

New Photo of the Week: Spotting runway 23

Last monday, went, for the first time on these vacations, to the airport for an afternoon of spotting.

Lucky me, runway 23 was in use so, decided to try out a few diferent spots for the take-offs.

The best framings didn't turn out as good as I wanted (out of focus and some heat haze) but still, these points turned out to be some good locations, to explore further more...

My favorite of the day...PGA's Foker 100 CS-TPC climbing out from runway 23, to Lisbon (LIS/LPPT)

One of the targets of the day...it's been a long time since I last had photographed a Luxair and I really do like its livery...
LX-LGQ landing on 23

and the take off...too bad the best framing pics, with the airport in the back turned out too crappy...

Very early take off for Easyjet's  G-EZIO, photographed from the most usual spotting point...

Another of my favorite pics of the day... F-GYAQ, the red tail A321, from Air Méditerranée

The landing

another view of the take off, side-by-side with me...

Yet on another spot, the Sata's Q400 CS-TRG take-off to Ponta Delgada (PDL/LPPD) provided some nice shots...

The surprise of the day: G-CMAS, from Execujet, an ERJ-135 Legacy that landed on runway 23 while I was on the  side, waiting for the take-offs

G-OZBB, another target of the day as I still hadn't photographed any Monarch this year.
Also my first Monarch with the new lettering

G-EZFW, just arrived at the stand...

Saturday pannings

 Last Saturday, as the traffic wasn't nothing really special, went for some experiences with pannings...
These 2 were the ones that turned out best.
Despite they weren't made on too low speeds (1/80), still some nice effects...

Air Berlin's A320 D-ABDX

Sata's Q400 CS-TRG arriving from LPA (Las Palmas)

A different Q400 / replacing the Q200

Last Tuesday was German day, no doubt...
Anyway decided to share the Sata planes after the littles spotters for 2 reasons:
Sata's Q400 on that day was quite unusual around here and the Q200 that usualy makes FNC-PXO flights is grounded with a mechanical problem...

Last Tuesday, Sata's Q400 that came from Ponta Delgada was a different registration: CS-TRG
Checking Airliners and Jetphotos noticed that in either there was only 1 pic of this reg....rare, for sure...

After arriving from Ponta Delgada, caught it departing to Las Palmas with quite a nice framing...

Sata's Q400 CS-TRG, departing to Las Palmas

The other reason I mention in the begining was the grounding of "local" Sata Q200 due to mechanical problems....

I've heard that the replacement part still has to come from outside Europe so, tomorow a Q400 should arrive to Porto Santo to replace the Q400.....

Sata's Q200 CS-TRB that ensures the Madeira-Porto Santo flights

P.S.: Just now I realised that I had caught CS-TRG at least once, but the pics were quite crappy...still was a post worth checking.... Check it HERE (specially if you miss the old ATP....)

Getting the rudder back

A few days ago I wondered when would CS-TGL fly again?
Well, last Thursday, besides the interest of all the traffic that came to retrieve the passengers held by a few days of airspace closed due to the ashes, I had the luck to see the operation to mount the tail rudder back on CS-TGL.

Was told that it might leave tomorow to Ponta Delgada. If so, then these were the last pics I took of it, as tomorow I won't be going for sure to the airport....

Getting things ready behind the tail...

Meanwhile, just a few meters away, new generation of prop transportation was continuing the legacy of the old ATP...