Spotting on the Gold Coast

Due to a family function we need to attend to tonight my family and I headed to the Coast last night. The apartment we are in is very nice and comfortable with lovely water views.

This morning while the family slept I got up and watch the sunrise and then headed to the Gold Coast Airport, also known as Cooly (for Coolangatta) to do some plane spotting.

I forgot to bring my ladder but it was ok because they were using runway 14 so aircraft flew in in front of me. Well it WAS ok until they changed runways and then I had to use the holes in the fence.

JETSTAR A320-232 VH-VFO (CN 5631)

QANTAS B737-838 VH-VXO (CN 33485)

JETSTAR A321-231 VHVWQ (CN 7384)

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-VOM (CN 33794)



VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-YFS (CN 41027)

ROTORWING ROBINSON R44 VH-VVW (CN 11856)

BOMBARDIER GLOBAL 5000 VQ-BMM (CN 9198)

QANTAS B737-838 VH-VZS (CN 39358)

GULFSTREAM G-V N716AS (CN 687)

BOMBARDIER GLOBAL 5000 VQ-BMM (CN 9198)

KOOKABURRA - HAPPILY SINGING ALL MORNING

AIR NEW ZEALAND A320-232 ZK-OJF (CN 2153)

DIAMOND DA40D VH-YHP (CN D4.309)

CESSNA 172R VH-LUH (CN 17280705)

DIAMOND DA40D VH-YHL (CN D4.307)

DIAMOND DA40D VH-YHM (CN D4.308)

TIGERAIR A320-232 VH-XUH (CN 6749)

JETSTAR B787-8 VH-VKB (CN 36228)

SCOOT B787-9 9V-OJA (CN 37112)

SEA AIR CESSNA 208 CARAVAN  VH-LMZ (CN 208-00173)

AIR ASIA X A330-343 9M-XXY (CN 1600)

CESSNA 172R VH-NWZ (CN 17280933)

HONG KONG AIRLINES THROWING UP SOME DUST

HONG KONG AIRLINES A330-343 B-LNO (CN 1384)

AIR ASIA X A330-343 9M-XXC (CN 1048)

Kaos in the air / flights cancelled and air hostesses hospitalised

Severe wind conditions have caused havoc in the air over the last two days.

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-VUE (CN 34167)      File Photo

First of all; yesterday two Virgin flight attendants were hospitalised, one with a broken leg, after a Melbourne to Adelaide flight experienced severe turbulence.
Virgin flight VA233 (VH-VUE) departed Melbourne on runway 27 at 4.35pm and hit unexpected severe turbulence on its descent into Adelaide. It landed on runway 23 in Adelaide at 5.13pm Adelaide time and the male and female flight attendants were taken to hospital. No passengers were injured during this flight.

Then today up to 90 flights were cancelled in and out of Sydney Airport as strong winds buffeted the runways. With wind gusts at the airport of up to 72km/h planes were restricted to using only one runway due to the gusty conditions. The strong winds disrupted the airport for most of the day with some customers experiencing delays of around 90 minutes or more. Qantas cancelled about 35 flights while an estimated 40 Virgin flights were impacted.
The winds are forecast to persist tomorrow morning but will ease throughout the day.
Due to a backlog, domestic passengers arriving into and leaving from Sydney Airport are being urged to check their flight details with their airlines.

Sydney to Brisbane Trip

After three very busy hot days out with our new rep in Sydney it was time to head home.
My flight home was at 4.30pm so I made my way to the airport at 2.40 pm arriving there just after 3.10pm. I called into Sheps Mound (also known as Sheps Hill) for about 40 minutes before heading off to the airport.

SHEPS HILL AND SYDNEY TOWER

SINGAPORE A380-841 9V-SKK (CN 051)

EMIRATES A380-861 A6-EEL (CN 133)

JETSTAR B787-8 VH-VKJ (CN 36236)

REX SAAB 340B VH-RXE (CN 340B-275)

ETIHAD B777-3FX A6-ETK (CN 39686) 

QANTAS A330-303 VH-QPH (CN 0695)

UPS MD-11F  N276UP (CN 48579)

FEDEX MD-11F N592FE (CN 48550)

QANTAS B747-438ER VH-OEE (CN 32909)

Our flight was leaving from gate 7 today and boarding commenced at 4.06pm, I took my seat which was 17F; a bad seat at that as it was over the wing and there were no other window seats available.
The aircraft for todays flight was VH-VYB (CN 33763) I have been on this aircraft twice before, 16/2/15 in 8F and 19/12/16 11A. The last cabin door was closed at 4.27pm and push back commenced at 4.31pm. We began taxiing at 4.33 and taxied out for runway 25, the East West runway. We were 3rd in line and once we got the all clear we taxied out and got airborne at 4.44pm. We held that heading for a few minutes before banking right and flew abeam the city and on to Gosford and the Central Coast, as we continued our climb to 370 to headed for Grafton and then onto Coolangatta.

RUNWAY 25

SYDNEY CITY AND HARBOUR

SYDNEY AIRPORT RUNWAYS 16L AND 16R

We began our descent at 5.27pm and once over Coolangatta we turned inland and headed to Archerfield. There we banked right again and headed in on the 01 ILS landing on runway 01 at 5.53pm.