Good afternoon all,
on the 29th of april we departed for Copenhagen to do some spotting for 1 week there,
but we couldn't drive the whole distance in once so we had our route plannend out
Finkenwerder-Copenhagen-Hamburg fuhlsbuttel-Finkenwerder
so we drove off around 02:00 and arrived in 'finky' around 08:15,
on our way we met german friends who would join us on this trip
starting at Finkenwerder:
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5. delivery flight for this TK A321 TC-JRO to IST
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7. delivery flight from this nice Vietnam A321, Dep to Baku as vietnam 323
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9. blank frontier arriving from TLS
10. first A319CJ for Rossiya
departing to TLS
before we left the spotting hill we heard from some locals that there should be a Shenzen A320 come in around 19:00 on delivery flight from TLS so we decided to go to the afternoon/evening spot...
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12. and here it was the Shenzen A320 on delivery flight from TLS, for fuel stop at Finky
we were very lucky with such traffic!
after the shenzen we went to the hotel in HAM and got some sleep,
next morning departed to CPH Via the puttgarden-rodby ferry
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around 12:00 we arrived in CPH,
and we went directly to the Flyvergrillen to Meet Mr. Silverwingpix
we got some great tips from him about spotting and was nice meeting him
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15. on the Iceland express flight the Iron Maiden 757 came in we saw it landing 04L after that they started take off 22R! here on T/O
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18. Surprise! this A340 from NRT landed 22R very nice site
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20. Fokker 50 still going strong on CPH
after that we checked in our hotel for some sleep and starting next day at 09:00
RW's: 04L landing, 04R take off
Thanks to MR silverwingpix we had a great spot at 04L
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27. the VV flight was plannend in the morning with a 734 but finally this amazing bird came in
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29. then the departure off this stunning bird again
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and we called it a day, monday we went to CPH city to do sight seeing wich was very nice
so back on tuesday again at the airport...
RW's: 22L landing, 22R take off later changed 04L / 04R
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39. flying for Blue1
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we went back to the hotel and started the next dat at 04:00
RW's: 04L landing, 04R take off
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44. little tornado at the engine
45. and the regular DHL AN-26 Exin to Stavanger
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47. Landing 04R
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52. for Aerosvit
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54. BLX818 dep to Phuket
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56. then a swedish harvard departed
, it made a flyby around the new and old tower and dissapeared
57. a rare SAS bird LN-BUD in white
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60. ahh, and then to end the day with a Carlsberg
the last day in CPH was there just 4 hours spotting before we went back to the ferry to Puttgarden again
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after some spotting we went to the ferry and from puttgarden drove back to HAM to look up the spotting position for that next day wich we would spend there
and caught 2 nice ones within 3 minutes
68. a Thai A330-300 was standing outside LH technik
69. finally caught it although with backlight but still nice
then to the hotel for some sleep, waking up next day early as there was a 747SP expected at HAM
sadly never showed up but still some other nice ones
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76. then Rossiya came in but with a VERY nice surprise an AN-148 so the 2nd one in 1 week
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after the AN-148 we decided to go to Finkenwerder at the RW23 spot wich give also a nice view at the harbour
since the harbour celibrated his 100th birthday with some nice big ships as well so great for plane and ship spotters
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81. just as this Beluga came in a big russian ship was sailing directly underneath the short final position so it was a great site to see
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84. then the A380 korean was being towed into a hangar but still managed a shot dispite heatwaves
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then after 1 week of great fun, everything was over again
and we had to go home...
we thanked the germans for the great company
and we drove home after 6,5 hours of driving we arrived back in spijkenisse again
I would like to thank some people for making this possible:
Ierland1 for the driving
Mr Silverwingpix for the information at CPH
the german guys for the great company
and the guys from Finkenwerder who gave us some great info
for all you watching this...
I hope you like this report, I will later post some shots from the spots where we took the pictures from