My Best Planespotting Photos By Far

[ardypilot]

My family had to get up early this morning, and I got dropped off at the airport just as the sun was rising to take what I think, are the best plane-spotting photos at Auckland International, that I have ever taken!

Let's see if you agree

Unlike other times, when I had been at the lookout carpark taking photos of the inbound aircraft airborne, this time I went over to tarmac itself, and found an "open gate", which lead my very close indeed to the runway indeed!

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1. A Qantas 737 landing on runway 23L


2. Yeah Baby! A huge Air New Zealand 747-441 taxing meters from my lens


3. The 20m tall tail looked giant close up!


4. An Air New Zealand Beech 1900D taxing down runway 23R


5. ZK-JNG turning onto the active


6. A beautiful Air New Zealand 767 taxing for takeoff


7. The aircraft looked stunning in the early morning light


8. Another Qantas 737 holds short while the 767 above lifts off to Japan


9. A Qantas 767 named "Bundaberg" taxies extremely close by, you can even see the pilot in the cockpit window


10. A zoomed out shot, with the aircraft only metres away


11. I could smell the engine gas as the 767 turned in front of me


12. Air Freight NZ's Convair 580 parked up for the morning


13. ZK-NSS "Lifeflight" Fairchild Metroliner


14. At the ANZ maintenance bay, a 777 and 747 sit stationary side by side


15. Another 747 under service, this time missing its rudder!


Thats the lot, any comments are welcome!

[FlyingKiwi]

Nice pics! That spot is very popular with a lot of the Auckland photographers on Airliners.net and Jetphotos.net, but I can never seem to find it. Where exactly is it?

[ardypilot]

Nice pics!  That spot is very popular with a lot of the Auckland photographers on Airliners.net and Jetphotos.net, but I can never seem to find it. Where exactly is it?

When you drive down Puhuinu drive, go right to the end roundabout, over the bridge past the lookout, and take the first exit on your left. Then take the first right and park in the DHL Freight carpark. Walk along the fence up the grass between the DHL Freight HQ and the Air New Zealand Maintainence hangers. At the end of that strip of grass is the best place to take photos, (see red square) although you need to poke your camera through the fence to get the good pictures.



Also, instead of going up the grass between the DHL and ANZ hangers, walk back along the road to the LifeFlight hangers, and walk along the grass to the fence to get some good landing pictures rather than taxing pictures. Remeber a spare pair of shoes or boots as it is real muddy!

[FlyingKiwi]

Awesome, thanks for that, I'll have to do that next time I'm there.

[ZK-MAT]

Nice pics there. Did you go through the gate and if so, were you questioned, or just looked official

Matt

[ardypilot]

Nice pics there. Did you go through the gate and if so, were you questioned, or just looked official

Thanks, and no, I just stood in the carpark and didn't look suspicious.

Lots of cars went past (even a cop) but none of them battered an eyelid

[mailman]

Airbus images moved to its own thread.

Regards

Mailman

[ardypilot]

Amazing photos mailman!

Do you think you could post them in a seperate thread please, as there is now so many images in this time, it will take a very long time for slower connection users to load.

Also, if you title it A380 photos, I think it will gain some more interest- I can't wait untill the first one arrives at Auckland