When I am in Cairns I always stay at the Acacia Court Hotel, and most of the time I get the same room, 801, which looks directly over the airport. You can clearly see the airport and the runway so you can see who's coming and going; this makes for fantastic plane spotting and especially at night when the runway lights on. This time unfortunately they had me in 804 but as you can see I can still see the airport and the runway; but no where near as good as 801.
Today I had a little over an hour around lunch time before my next business meeting so; with lunch in hand I headed out to the airport for a while. I noticed taxiway Bravo 4 was closed due to repairs so landing aircraft had to backtrack if they missed taxiway Bravo 3 (That would explain the very hard braking yesterday morning when I landed)
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| TAXIWAY BRAVO 4 CLOSED OFF |
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JETSTAR A320-232 VH-VQW (CN 2329)
TURING AROUND ON 15 AND BACKTRACKING |
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| REX (REGIONAL EXPRESS) SAAB 340B VH-ZLJ (CN 340B380) |
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| REX SAAB 340'S TRIPLE PLAY AND AN AIRNORTH ERJ 170 |
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| QANTAS B737-838 VH-VXB (CN 30101) |
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| REX (REGIONAL EXPRESS) SAAB 340B VH-ZLF (CN 340B374) |
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| QANTAS LINK DASH 8-400 VH-QOR (CN 4241) |
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| HELIFIX PNG CESSNA 208B P2-HFA (CN B-0954) |
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HELIFIX PNG ARRIVING IN CAIRNS FROM
PORT MORESBY VIA HORN ISLAND |
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| HINTERLAND CESSNA 208B VH-ETF (CN 208B1175) |
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| HINTERLAND CESSNA 208B VH-MRZ (CN 208B1048) |
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| SURVEILLANCE AUSTRALIA DASH 8-200 VH-LCL (CN 492) |
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| WEST WING CESSNA 208B VH XDU (CN 208B2113) |
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| VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8KG VH-VUY (CN 39450) |
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PIPER PA-31-350 VH-KFU (CN 31-7552013)
Tomorrow morning I am off to Townsville on Rex and this will be my first time on REX and on a SAAB 340; so I am looking forward to it.
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