I only had one business meeting this morning which went for just over 3 hours, after that I had some emails and phones calls to attend to plus finish off some reports so I thought I would head off to the viewing area at the airport while I attend to my tasks and while I am there I would captured a few movements.
When I arrived this is what I saw and I thought "what is going on here" but it turns out they were just doing a tarmac sweep for foreign objects before the RPT's arrive.
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ROYAL FLYING DOCTORS BEECHCRAFT B200
VH-FDR (CN BB-1881)
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| REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE AIRFORCE C-130 HERCULES |
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| VIRGIN AUSTRALIA E190 VH-ZPM (CN 19000262) |
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| QANTAS LINK DASH 8-Q400 VH-LQJ (CN 4414) |
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| QANTAS LINK DASH 8-Q400 VH-QOM (CN 4217) |
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ROYAL FLYING DOCTORS BEECHCRAFT B200
VH-FDI (CN BL-162)
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It wasn't long before I had to check in for my 2.40pm flight home. My main choice of airlines is QANTAS but sometimes I can't get a flight on them and today was one of those instances.
I was coming home on a Virgin Australia Embraer E190 and VH-ZPH was the rego.
I checked and got my ticket, I was in 15A on this flight.
We commenced boarding through gate 1 at 2.15pm, (Rockhampton doesn't have weigh bridges so the aircraft are parked out on the tarmac) the weather outside was not good so I knew we could be in for a bumpy climb out. We began taxiing at 2.35 and as runway 15 was in use we headed for that end.
We got airborne at 2.38pm and the climb out would have to be the fastest climb I have ever experienced. As expected the climb was rough and very bumpy; we climbed to flt lvl 330.
We began our descent at 3.08pm and we landed on runway 01 in Brisbane at 3.28. A flight that is normally 70 mins was done and dusted in 50 mins. We taxied to gate 46 and flight 32 for the year was done and dusted.
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