NZFF

Well I know it says only pics from NZ but maybe Trolly can make an exception just this once...
If you guys are interested I have lots more, heaps of planes in europe we never see the likes of in NZ...

Cessna Citation V (five)



And its partial glass right hand panel



(I have expanded photos of the whole panel too somewhere.)

CJ2



And her more modern panel



And airborne, note the altitude, service ceiling for this plane!



And for something really impressive, I snapped this at an airport in southern Ukraine last year, there were rows and rows of these ships parked up and decommisioned, this is just one.



And I couldn't resist this sexy front on shot of one of our Citation X's. (Ten) With CJ1 and Excel in the background.




Hope you like them,

Dave

nice pics there are heaps of them in that row

Hello Dave , Bueaty photos , I no this will create plenty of interest , photos from the unknown areas .. veiw my first Il76 couple years back , never a row off them!

Excellent, keep 'em coming!

Those Biz jets look so sleek Dave, where they all taken in Austria?

Also, it would be brilliant to see some shots of the Fokker 70/100 that your airline flies, and perhaps some airbourne appoach shots if that is possible. Do you ever fly to the UK?

Hi Trolly,

The Fokker (I guess you saw it on my site) was just a visitor, russian owned apparently.
We have a 737-300 VIP and two EMB 135 Legacy's too but they are based in far off places, Bucharest, Kiev and Moscow I think.

The pic of the V is on the east GA apron at Vienna, the CJ2 shot I took in Ancona, Italy and the hangar shot is from GA west apron. Our main hangar.
The IL's were in Zaporihzia in southern Ukraine.


We fly to the UK all the time, normally a bit busy for

Awesome Awesome Awesome Dave! In the shot of the CJ2 panel with the PFD and the ND, is the green stuff a moving map or weather?

Opps, I didn't quite finish that last message.

Was saying, normally a bit busy for photos on approach but I'll do my best to get some. In the meantime heres a few more of interest.
This gets addictive huh?!

Approach to Berlin Templehof, this was the airport the nazis built in the 30's.
The huge airlift after WWII flew into here.
You give the locals a good wake up call on approach and departure, only ten mins from the centre of Berlin by car!



737's taxiing out at Berlin Tegel. They were going past non stop, Tegel is the base for dBa, Air Berlin and Hapag Loyd Express.



Air Berlin 737-700



The Fokker in question



Red Bull DC-6 at Hangar 7 in Salzburg, she's an absolute beauty, millions spent on it. Like a hotel inside.



Candair fire bombers in Madrid, Spain. Garrett turboprop conversions.



A very dirty Italian ATR, one of the poorest airlines for service and aircraft cleanliness so I've heard.



And an SAS Dash 8 Q400 in Tegel.



And one more, just a cracking shot of a CB cloud over the med.



Camera locked and loaded for the next trip...

Dave

The green stuff is the visual part of a system called TAWS, Terrain Avoidance Warning System.
It takes the elevation data from our FMS database and puts it into a pretty picture on the PFD. You can select it between weather and terrain. The numbers are the highest and lowest elevations like on the VFR enroute charts for NZ, in this case 10200' and 5000'.
Normally I like to fly with the pilot PFD on weather and the centre MFD on terrain but I guess I didn't on this occasion...

Nice photos, pity to see all those IL-76s not going anywhere. For lack of aircraft cleanliness you can't beat Air France.

Hey Dave , what the price$ for housing around Templehof , I want that place to your right of the mmm , on the runway threshold spose never get busy as the Berlin airlift but i'll be happy

Haha, I think thats government housing around there... No one else would want to live on a path like that... ;-)

Surprising that some people just hate aircraft and their noise...

Woo this is some great Sunday morning entertainment in NZ!
Thanks for those Dave.
BTW on which aircraft are you current?

Great shots Dave, great to see the aircraft you hang around over there.

Alex

mmmm very nice indeed, I see with that CJ2 panel at FL450 only M72, I thought these jets were reasonably fast, what would your GS be in that case?

James

Cheers guys.

Currently flying C500 series which in our company includes Citationjet CJ1 1+ and 2, 2+ and CJ3, C V and Excel/XLS.

They are relatively slow compared to the big jets, max mach is 0.737 for the CJ2 and 0.755 for the V.
The Citation X can do 0.98 but rarely does due to high fuel consumption and engine preservation...

In the CJ2, 0.72 at FL450, zero wind ground speed is about 400 kts I guess. With a good jetstream behind I've seen here close to 500 kts gs.

The 747 is actually one of the fastest non military jets around, in fact the newer jets cruise slower than the older ones.
Airbus and 777 and 737ng's are not much faster than 0.78 mach.
In RVSM airspace your limited with speed anyway for seperation purposes.

Small jets tend to climb better though.

Dave

Red Bull DC-6 at Hangar 7 in Salzburg, she's an absolute beauty, millions spent on it. Like a hotel inside.

Millions... and they couldnt even get some decent stairs!

Love the appoach shot there, and that Air Berlin livery (my fav our of all the Euro carriers).

Those firebombers look neat too, thanks very much for posting!