TLP today - all shades of Grey

Iwan Bogels · Post by **Iwan Bogels** » 12 Dec 2007, 21:57

Hi everybody,

Today was a just another "typical Florennes weather" day.

On the way from Holland the skies were clear blue, all the way from Schiphol until Brussels. But just 10 kilometers past Brussels I ran into a fog bank which didn't clear until Florennes.

Arriving at about 10.00 hrs, heavy fog remained until lunchtime, after which the sun slowly did its job. Visibility increased, but the skies remained greyish during take off. During the landing sycle weather deteriorated rapidly, resulting in all shades of grey. Perfect colors to match the Tornado, Harrier, F-16 and Hornet camouflage..... YEACH !

Nevertheless I did pull out the camera and shot a few aircraft. Below you will find two of my best results (which still look horrible to me).

Cheers,
Iwan

Both couples of German and British Tornados did a nice take off, initiating a steep climb out almost right in front of us.

Hey Jaco, this is what you "missed" from your position during the landing cycle.....

Redskin301 · Post by **Redskin301** » 12 Dec 2007, 22:34

Iwan Bogels wrote:Today was a just another "typical Florennes weather" day.

Thats what i also had the last two times i went to florennes, you have a few nice pictures specially the tornado

Flanker27 · Post by **Flanker27** » 13 Dec 2007, 13:40

You made some nice shots for the weather IWan. I was at 08 with just a few cars, and we heard that there were loads at 26 at 12.30.

Allright, it was the most terrible weather to shoot in as Iwan said, but to give you an impression of those conditions... here some shots, 2nd time to try out my bigma and oh no what a weather.. well that's a spotter's life.

Flanker27 · Post by **Flanker27** » 13 Dec 2007, 15:53

And some more reasonable shots.

And finally the new Belgian F-16 with the quindruple landing gear and double tail:

Thijs · Post by **Thijs** » 13 Dec 2007, 16:39

Hey Jaco, this is what you "missed" from your position during the landing cycle.....

Kuch Kuch

I was wondering what all those guys were doing over there

lappie · Post by **lappie** » 13 Dec 2007, 17:04

and today it was sunny
[IMG]http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x119 ... _17880.jpg[/IMG]

lappie · Post by **lappie** » 13 Dec 2007, 17:19

and it was sunny, may this time the image is visible..

oke its the BBC code again..

KIER · Post by **KIER** » 13 Dec 2007, 20:46

Yeh Iwan.....I allready thought you were doing some of those shots, instead of shots from the wheel housings.

I hope you were going for the wheel housings

to avoid postings like this with your shots.

Iwan, the F-4 shot is great.

Kier

ZeroOtto · Post by **ZeroOtto** » 15 Dec 2007, 20:52

08!!

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