NZFF

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

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

Except that I'm not working.

This will be very interesting!

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

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

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 .

Some video I took from RW16 threshold -

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

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)

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

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!

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

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]

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

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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