My first plane spotting photos

[Jimmy]

(please note ,these photos are taken with a "olympus camedia 3.2mega pixel camera so the quailty isnt great)

Today I was doing my schoolwork and we saw ZK-OJO fly over (runway 29 was active today! they go right near our house ) So Mum took me out to the airport to see it and I took photos of other aircraft too. It was about 2 o'clock.




I took this near the thresh hold of 11 as this 733 took of from rwy29


Jetstar A320

We dicided to go and stand on the roof of the domestic terminal in hope of getting close up views of ojo.


ahh look at those atr72's


see the star aliance A320 in te background, is this avalible in fs? maby ill paint one of them if not.

Landed!


Busy, busy, saab 340A


Ahh there you are , now just to wait untill they push back and taxi.


Hmm I feal like i no every pixel on that plane there and this is the first time ov ever seen it lol


oops I was ment to put TWO yellow windows at the front


spoling up the engins on rwy29


Good bye lol




theres alot of atr's buzzing around.

Thats all. We were out there for about an hour and a bit but no heavys left or came , there was a 763 taking off as we arived thow .

Theyr not the best but neathier is the camera lol

James

[Alex]

Not bad at all James. Glad you finally saw OJO .

Alex

[ZK-MAT]

Nice pics Jimmy. Are you home-schooled? Imagine asking your teacher for the day off to go to the airport!

There is an A320-200 Star Alliance paint out there. I did a video of it once at Wellington It's rubbish quality on Google, the original was sharp and clear.

[omitchell]

Love the pics. To answer your A320 question tho, yes the Star Alliance one is available in both flyable and AI versions. PAI and Evolve AI have hte AI one, and I think Avsim/Flightsim has the flyable one but i can't remember who by...

[AlisterC]

Search for "Jonathan Hartana" at avsim, and you'll come up with his nice Star Alliance repaint for the IFDG A320

http://virtual.planepictures.net/show.cgi?78885

[Jimmy]

Haha yup im homeschooled, I think since I had been flat out working on that repaint for so long Mum thort it was great to actuuly be able see it for real (so did I!) managed to get out of doing english too, I discoverd plane spotting is much more fun! lol

It was prety embarasing dow.. pulling out the little digital camera beside this guy with a proper one with the big lense and all.

[ardypilot]

Thanks for sharing Jimmy!

I'm glad you finally got to take some photos at the airport- planespotting is great fun aint it?

You seem to have a great variety of aircraft down there in NZCH too- how on earth did you get onto the roof? Is there a purposly built lookout or did you just climb up there lol

As for the Star Alliance A320, I once captured her coming into Auckland International:


Then when I got home, I downloaded the IFDG repaint off avsim here: ifdg_anz_sa_a320.zip and took it for a flight from Brisbane to Fiji. I made a collection of screenshots which are uploaded here: http://flyawaysimulation.com/postt13032.html

[ZK-MAT]

managed to get out of doing english too, I discoverd plane spotting is much more fun! lol

Perhaps you should have not missed out on English .... nudge nudge

[Jimmy]

Yeah theres a look out on top of the terminal, its quite a big area with great views. I'll take a screenie of NZCH in flightsim and post it here(if its there). Theres a door then some stairs in the domestic terminal's upstairs bit. Its quite good, you can walk over and see the saabs and smaller stuff on the other side too! And the smell of aviation fuel mmmm lol

Matt..Can you find a spelling mistake in this post? haha

[ZK-MAT]

Spelling appears ok, but now let's learn punctuation... this is an apostrophe '

hehehe sorry mate, my wife is an English teacher, I think it has rubbed off on me

[Zöltuger]

can't say i find the star alliance livery particularly inspiring. it is more of a requirement from star alliance than anything else.

nice pics too Jimmy.

[FlyingKiwi]

Nice lot of photos there Jimmy.

[Jimmy]

Hmmm apostrophe, I use them! maby I should turn my pc off before mum notices and get back to handwriting lol

I think i mite give plane spotting a go anothor time too, ill hae a look on the net first and see whats comeing and going, oh and thanks for all the info about a start aliance A320. I'll (<see my apostrophe matt) download it sometime, IFDG's one looks nice (hehe see that matt, That is the ac belonging to IFDGso the apostrophe must go at the and of the name )

James