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Jersey/Guernsey and Aberdeen 20-23 June 2008  Ian Ellington

It’s been a couple of years now since I last visited Jersey and always thought if I went back I’d like to try a Aurigny Trislander flight to Guernsey!! So with bmi-baby knocking out cheep'ies I thought what better time to go!   Booking my flights out of Birmingham and the light nights would also be good time to shoot some cargo stuff arriving at East Mids! I’ve not been to Aberdeen either so I thought while down in Birmingham id hit the highlands for the day!!  

So the plan of attack was to head off to East Mids straight after work on the Fri 20/06 and stay their until dark, But with me working over till 10pm thru night my gaffer said have the Friday off with pay!!!!!!!  YIPPPPEEEEEEEE!!!!   So after a lie in I went up to DTV mid day Fri to shoot the Airbee MD83 “only to find it being the same as last week!! EC-JUG” Anyway after wasting it and the SAS B737-7 LN-RRA and Citationjet G-HEBJ I then set off down the M1!

 East Midlands Friday 20/06/2008

Of interest were

G-CECU Boeing 767-200  UK International  (still here in store!!)

G-HEBJ Ce525 Citationjet   (Beat me to EMA!!!)

D-CMMP Ce560 Citation XLS

OE-GEG Ce560 Citation XLS

N71VE  RC 690

OY-BTZ  Pa31 Navajo

N184VB Ce441

YL-RAH  Saab 340F RAF-Avia

G-XLAK B737-800 XL Airways

N70LJ  Learjet 35

G-MAFI Dornier 228-200

D-CNIK  Learjet 40  Cirrus Aviation

G-BYTH  A320-200  Thomas Cook

D-ALCP  MD11F Lufthansa Cargo

HB-KBH  TB-10  Swissair titles

N719EL  Be400 Beechjet

N313UP  Boeing 767-300F  UPS

G-STRF  B737-700  Astraeus operating for Sterling!!!

G-CELY  B737-300  Jet2/Channel Express

G-FLTK  MD83  Flightline

OY-SRK/SRH  B767-200F  Star Air

SP-FDO  AN26  Exin

OY-JRJ  ATR,42F  Danish Air Transport

G-OAAF  BAe ATP F  Atlantic Airlines

G-BMRH/G-BIKV  B757-200F  DHL

OO-TZC  A300F  TNT Airways

OO-DLD  A300F  DHL

TF-CIB  B757200F  Icelandair Cargo

Plus the usual bmi/bmi-baby/Ryanair and Easyjet

After a real tasty several hours of shooting cargo arrivals until 10pm I then headed off to Birmingham to my digs for the night!

Birmingham Sat 21/06/2008

I dropped my car off at the Airparks “off Airport Carpark” then it was off on the shuttle bus to the airport for my flight to Jersey!  If anyone is flying out of Birmingham I would deffinatly recommend Airparks as it was only £11 for three full days and also theirs a free 24hr shuttle bus!!

Nothing of Note at Birmingham apart from the night stoppers and

G-MKSA Regional Jet

G-IRSH ERJ135 Legacy  

After 50 minutes on board G-TOYE Boeing 737-300 we landed at Jersey in bright sunshine!!  So it was off to the Aero Club Balcony for the majority of the day!!   What a place it is for shots as the sun is behind you nearly all day and you’re above the fence and also the food is spot on!! They have an arrivals screen which has all the days arrivals on it including tins!!!!  So once id set up camp it was a full English!!!! a treat for 5 big ones and  Just what I needed as I knew it was going to be a hard days graft on the Camera and my right finger!!!!!

Their also was a cirrus fly in over the weekend!! Tins don’t really melt my butter “as im not really into Light” but I got took out on the ramp to shoot some of them!!  Over 50 in total!! So thanks to Dale at the aero club for the ramp tour!!

 Jersey Saturday  20/06/2008

 Of Interest

G-BZOG Dornier 328  Scot Airways operating for Blue Islands

G-ISLB/G-ISLC/G-BUVC  Jetstream   Blue Islands

VP-BMP  Falcon 50

N35AL  DR42 Twin Star

G-BDTO/ G-XTOR/ G-FTSE  Trislander  Aurigny

G-XBEL Ce560 Citation XLS

G-NSJS Ce680 Citation Sovereign

F-BRIC  MS880 Rallye

N6186Q Ce172  Ex Spanish maybe on delivery across the pond????

F-GGXC  Robin

M-PSAC  Ce525B Citationjet CJ2+

D-ANFH  ATR,72  Lufthansa Regional

D-ADHB  DHC,8-400  Lufthansa Regional

OO-VLK/OO-VLS/OO-VLZ  Fokker 50  VLM

N9AY  Ce421C

N2923N  Pa 32 Saratoga

N577PA  Ce425

G-BPYR  Pa31 Navajo

F-GIZK  Ce182

D-ACSC  Regional Jet 700  Lufthansa Regional

N37US  Pa 34 Seneca

N2548T  Navion Rangemaster

F-BXOG  Ce177

D-EMOC  Mooney M20

EC-GPS  SA227 Metro  Manx2

G-GEBJ  Ce525 Citationjet

TC-MBC  Fokker FK27-500F  MNG Kargo

CS-DFU  Ce560 Citation XLS

G-LCOC  Trislander  Blue Islandes

Plus the usual flybe DHC,8-400s/ERJ145/190  British Airways B737-400/500 bmi-baby B737-300/500  bmi A320/A319/RJ135/RJ145 Aurigny ATR72 Thomsonfly B737-300/500  Aer Lingus A320  Easyjet A319/B737-700  Jet2 B737-300  and Air Southwest DHC,8-300s   

And the 50+ cirrus fly inn included    

F-GRID/N147CC/D-ESLO/N124CP/G-RAYY/N6015K/N747TG/OE-KCG  /N189PB/N519PG/HB-KHF/D-ETNH/N112SR/N146JJ/N241PK/D-EFAK

D-EWCO/N834CD/PH-AMI/N310JF/D-EXCD/N852CD/N6051C/D-EWCD

G-EDHO/N167CP/N197CT/

As I mentioned earlier i'd fancied a flight to Guernsey in a Trislander so I booked one way with Aurigny £22 and the return with Blue Islands on a Jetstream also £22!  In all it gave me just under 2 hours to get round Guernsey and shoot the Herald/Bandeirante in the fire training ground!! I had mailed the fire dept so they were expecting me, so when the flight was early I was well chuffed as it was going to be tight to cram everything in!!!  Special thanks goes out to the fire dept as they gave me a ramp tour after a quick visit to their training ground!!  Again I would deffinatley recommend a quick visit to Guernsey  if in Jersey! If anything just to fly in a Trislander! So it was onto G-BDTO for the hop across the water!! In the cruise at 1,000ft!!!!! only 14miniutes flight time!!! AWESOME!!!! The only problem is the boats/ships etc seem to pass you below!!!

Guernsey  Saturday 21/06/2008

Most of the inter island stuff was seen at Jersey so others included

G-BEDP  Trislander  Blue Island

G-RBCI  Trislander  Aurigny

PH-RCF  Ce172

N499PG  Cirrus

PH-WYN  Ce177

C-GQXZ  Trislander  was on delivery a couple of weeks ago but diverted back and went tech!!

G-OWLC  Pa 31 Navajo

G-SSEA  ATR,42 ex Air Wales

YU-HVA  Agusta A109

N57MT/N11FV/N6498V  Ce303s

N123DV  Cirrus

N3023W  Beech V33 Bonanza

N818Y  Pa39 Twin Comanche

N6095A  RC114

+ Flybe DHC8-400s,BAe146 Aurigny ATR72s and plenty of light but biz hanger was locked up!!!!

On the fire dump

G-BAZJ Herald

N97121  EMB110 Bandierante  City Link Colours!!

+ two Aurigny Trislanders and a wessex and a hunter and what I can only describe as a Pa34 Seneca N32625 fuselage mounted on top of a small van!!! Nice Landing!!!! 

After a quick 2 hours round the airport it was on the Blue Islands Jetstream G-PLAJ back to Jersey!!  A bit quicker and quieter than the Trislander but still awesome never the less!!! Their was Nothing any different at jersey on arrival and nothing of note due so after heading back to the aero club Balcony and sinking a couple of pints of Stella it was off to St Hellier for a good nights kip!!!!

Jersey Sunday 22/06/2008

I was up early as I had mailed a few people at Jersey with regards to getting round the Biz hanger/ramp etc!!!  So after a quick ramp/hanger tour I headed back to the Aero Club for “yes” the big one!!!!! Not one for a full English but “hey” it had to be done as it set you up for the day!!!!! My flight back to Birmingham was mid day so just stayed up their until 11ish and checked in!!

G-SVSB Ce680 Citation Sovereign

G-CJDB Ce525 Citationjet

N90DJ Ce182

N601AR Aerostar

N308CJ Ce208B Caravan

N414FZ Ce414

G-VIPY Pa31 Navajo

N1262K Ce425

G-WAIN Ce560 Citation 5

N527EW Ce501 Citation

N37379 Ce421

G-ISLD Jetstream Blue Islands

G-ORJA Be200

+ a few more Cirrus D-ERBD/N121EP/N406AJ/N54105/G-VGAG/

 Birmingham Sunday  22/06/2008

After a real smooth flight in G-BVKD Boeing 737-500 “and while in the descent” the pilot mentioned that Birmingham had 40 knot crosswinds so it may be a bit bumpy on approach!!!!!!!!! “BUMPY” he wasn’t kidding!!!!!  I was in row 4a and I was looking at the runway all the way down the approach until just before touchdown!!  When he flung the tail round and put it down on runway 15 beautifully!! So after landing a visit to the toilet was needed!!!!!! and on walking round to runway 33 to get rotation shots it was then I realized how bad the crosswinds were!!  A lot of go a rounds and very hard landings!!!! Shame they were landing the wrong end for shots!!! 

Not much of Interest apart from the usual and

OM-NGL B737-700 SkyEurope

SU-BPZ B737-800 AMC Airlines

A6-EBX B777-300 Emirates

HB-JZM A319 Easyjet swiss

D-ABAN B737-800 Air Berlin

EZ-A014 B757 Turkmenistan Airlines

AP-BGL B777-200 Pakistan International

VT-AIJ B777-200 Air India

HB-JVF FK100 Helvetic Airlines operating for Swiss

G-JOPT Ce560 Citation 5

G-JETA Ce550 Citation 2

EC-JUG MD83 Airbee

It was then off early to the travel lodge as I was getting wind swept and plus the light wasn’t too good for shots!!!

Birmingham Monday  23/06/2008

Nothing of interest at Brum apart from a Air Transat Airbus A310-300 and a Spanish Gulf 200/Astra which landed as we were taxying out on G-BVZE another Boeing 737-500 for dept to Aberdeen.

Aberdeen Monday 23/06/2008

First thing on arrival at Aberdeen was a bit of stotty cake for my breakfast!! Mmm nice!! Then off to the spectators area which is south of the terminal and good for shots where I stayed all day!  Just before I checked in it was onto the mound north of the terminal to shoot some of  Bristow’s Helicopters and day stoppers!!

SP-FDO Antonov AN26 Exin

OY-PBI  LET410 Turbolet Benair

OY-BJP SA227 Metro Benair

OY-BPW SH360 Benair

G-TMRA SH360

LN-BAA/LN-TWL/G-SASD Be200’s  also G-ONAL and G-FPLB doing fast low flypasts!!

LN-BRR B737-500 Braathens

OY-RJF/OY-RJC Regional Jet Cimber Air/SAS

LN-WFO/LN-WFS DHC8-300’s Wideroe

N37172 Be350

F-HBLB/F-HBLA  ERJ190 Air France-Regional

+ the Usual Eastern Airways Jetstreams,Saab 2000s bmi ERJ135/145  bmi-baby B737-300/500 British Airways A319/A320/A321 flybe DHC8-400/ERJ145/190 Flightline BAe146s Flyglobespan B737-700’s KLM Fk70/100/B737-400  and not forgetting the Choppers! Loads of them from Bristows/Bond and CHC  Eurocopter EC225/Puma’s  

After a good day at Aberdeen it was then back onto G-TOYE Boeing 737-300 for my hour’s flight back to Brum! What a great flight it was with a clear sunny evening sky, we had some great views of the scenery over the borders and then over the lakes and also Manchester!!! Which made up for the long drive back home to Stockton!!!

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