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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:18 pm
by Daniel
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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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:06 pm
by deeknow
Wow, that'll be quite a sight, lookn FWD to pics from our nzff spotters thumbup1.gif

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:15 pm
by NZ255
Damn...working. A 777 in Wellington? Wow

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:09 pm
by Nzeddy
whathesaid.gif happy.gif Except that I'm not working. tongue.gif

This will be very interesting!

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:48 pm
by connor
whathesaid.gif Except I'm not working either, or living in Wellington laugh.gif

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:39 pm
by Splitpin
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 ohmy.gif

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:41 pm
by Ian Warren
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 .

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:43 pm
by husker
Some video I took from RW16 threshold -

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

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:53 pm
by Kelburn
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)




PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:05 pm
by Ian Warren
Seems to me they greased it in compared to many flights into NZCH with 74s and A340 s cool.gif

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

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:48 pm
by connor
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 biggrin.gif

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

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:37 pm
by HamiltonWest
Great Photo's Kelburn very cool thanks for shareing - Cool video Husker Thanks for the link smile.gif cool.gif

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:18 pm
by victor_alpha_charlie
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]

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:29 pm
by Splitpin
Great shots thumbup1.gif thumbup1.gif what a beast of a thing.....thanks for the post thumbup1.gif thumbup1.gif

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 thumbup1.gif thumbup1.gif

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:58 pm
by husker
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!

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:00 pm
by Ian Warren
Tom , surprised you were,nt on the Vincent Aviation ramp ?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:17 pm
by Kelburn
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 laugh.gif
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.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:31 am
by victor_alpha_charlie
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!

PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:59 pm
by pilotgallagher01
Nice video and pics guys, where abouts did it park?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:08 pm
by benwynn
Parked at one of the gates in the Jetstar area, where it joins into the international area of the terminal.