After a great morning spotting; 8 hours to be exact, it was time to head into the airport for my 4.10pm flight home. I arrived back into the terminal at 2pm and went up to the Qantas Club for lunch and a few beers. I hadn't been to this lounge before so I was looking forward to seeing what view they had. The view was pretty good.
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| FROM FRONT TO BACK QANTAS'S B737, 717 AND 2 DASH 8 Q400 |
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| MALAYSIA AIRLINES A330-323 9M-MTH (CN 1336) |
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| THAI B777-3AL HS-TKL (41521) |
At 3.45pm I made my way down to gate 4 in time for my 3.50 boarding time. As soon as I arrived at the gate I notice the very low amount of passengers waiting, so I checked the gate and flight number again. Boarding commenced right on 3.50pm and I took my seat which was 5A, the aircraft was a B737-838 and the registration was VH-VXO (CN 33485) This flight had only about 40 passengers on board. The cabin doors were closed at 4.07pm and we pushed back at 4.09. We commenced taxiing at 4.12 and headed out for the east - west runway of 27.
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| QANTAS B737-838 VH-VYH (CN 34180) |
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| EMIRATES A380-861 A6-EOB (CN 164) |
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| SICHUAN A330-243 B-6535 (CN 1241) |
We lined up pretty well straight way and got airborne at 4.17pm.
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| CALDER PARK RACEWAY |
After a long slow bank to the right over Sunbury we set course for Brisbane.
We passed to the west of Wangaratta, then directly over Wagga Wagga and Mudgee. We passed to the west of Armidale and then onto the Gold Coast where we banked left and tracked for Archerfield.
The flight up was anything but smooth and comfortable as we had a low to moderate chop, there were two times when the captain said "cabin crew and passengers be seated immediately and fasten seat belts" We began our descent into Brisbane at 5.42pm and after flying past our home
(and my wife and kids out waving to me) we landed on runway 01 at 6.05pm.
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| ARCHERFIELD AIRPORT |
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| BRISBANE CITY (WITH GABBA FOOTBALL GROUND) |
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| BRISBANE RIVER |
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| BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL |
Due to Queensland not having daylight saving we put the time back an hour, making our official arrival time 5.05pm.
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