NZFF

by **Daniel** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:18 pm

Hi all,

Tomorrow Air New Zealand will be taking it's new B777-300ER (ZK-OKM) into Wellington. It's planned to arrive at 10.45am and leave around 3.30pm. Will be a great sight for those around!

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by **deeknow** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:06 pm

Wow, that'll be quite a sight, lookn FWD to pics from our nzff spotters

by **NZ255** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:15 pm

Damn...working. A 777 in Wellington? Wow

by **Nzeddy** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:09 pm

Except that I'm not working.

This will be very interesting!

by **connor** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:48 pm

Except I'm not working either, or living in Wellington

by **Splitpin** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:39 pm

Damm.......that i would like to see. Have to meet NZ90(777) in the morning, so maybe i can get a few pics of that.....but a 777 at Welle

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:41 pm

They have had 777s in welly before , only a 200 series tho , be interesting to see its turn radius , we have 200s on occasion in CHCH and requires a push back to 02/20 before going to the gates .

by **husker** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:43 pm

Some video I took from RW16 threshold -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1J8YaVmCTQ

by **Kelburn** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:53 pm

Took these:

Must have been one of the hardest landings I've seen though. THey slammed it down and had it slowed down to taxi speed halfway down the runway (though aviation law requires them to ext at A1/A11)

by **Ian Warren** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:05 pm

Seems to me they greased it in compared to many flights into NZCH with 74s and A340 s

'(though aviation law requires them to ext at A1/A11)' Shsss Tui don,t tell anyone , i break that law all the time

by **connor** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:48 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Feb 9 2011, 02:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
(though aviation law requires them to ext at A1/A11)' Shsss Tui don,t tell anyone , i break that law all the time

And sometimes he doesn't listen to what the CAA have to say either!

by **HamiltonWest** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:37 pm

Great Photo's Kelburn very cool thanks for shareing - Cool video Husker Thanks for the link

by **victor_alpha_charlie** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:18 pm

Takeoff video I got this arvo: [url=http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=1783991169311&comments]http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video...11&comments[/url]

by **Splitpin** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:29 pm

Great shots

what a beast of a thing.....thanks for the post

husker wrote:
QUOTE (husker @ Feb 9 2011, 01:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Some video I took from RW16 threshold -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1J8YaVmCTQ

Thanks husker, between your vid and kelburns pics...we got it covered

by **husker** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:58 pm

Another good vid of the takeoff (not mine)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLR9Dd_4--Y

I reckon there was a couple hundred spotters on the hill over the RW16 threshold this morning - cars everywhere!

by **Ian Warren** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:00 pm

Tom , surprised you were,nt on the Vincent Aviation ramp ?

by **Kelburn** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:17 pm

When I said slammed, the video doesn't quite show it but it hit the ground fairly hard for its size and had a momentary bounce back up.
What was funny for the landing that the whole airport stopped moving to watch it. There were no aircraft or vehicles moving. Even the fire station staff had come out to see it. TZR (Sounds air) stopped while taxiing to watch it eve

I love that even Airport 1 (the car that checks the runway and stuff) had stopped to watch it in that third video.

Well now, that's the excitment for Wellington airport over for the year.

by **victor_alpha_charlie** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:31 am

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Feb 9 2011, 08:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Tom , surprised you were,nt on the Vincent Aviation ramp ?

If I'd known she'd lift off so early I would've, but I figured they'd trundle past still on the rwy so didn't bother. Big mistake!

by **pilotgallagher01** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:59 pm

Nice video and pics guys, where abouts did it park?

by **benwynn** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:08 pm

Parked at one of the gates in the Jetstar area, where it joins into the international area of the terminal.

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