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administrator - 2008-03-31, 22:15
Ready, set, go

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Asdrius - 2008-04-03, 19:10
Weather is yet very cloudy on this month
Caught one plane on April 1st, between high cirrus clouds, but the last few days had more thick low altitude clouds.

2008-04-01:

17:56 UL29
B747-200F Air China Cargo CCA1041 ZBAA-EDDF


Regards

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Bulent737 - 2008-04-04, 08:10
Hello all,

My contrail photos from LTBA

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G@wron - 2008-04-04, 08:26
Hello Bulent737. It's nice to see your pics. I think we have some the same planes !?

Best Regards

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Ania - 2008-04-04, 09:31
Hi Bulent!
Finally joined us!
Kudos on your pics!

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Bulent737 - 2008-04-04, 12:50
Hi G@wron,
Yes I think we are see same planes

Thanks mate

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G@wron - 2008-04-04, 12:53
Hi G@wron,
Yes I think we are see same planes

Thanks mate

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Bulent737 - 2008-04-04, 12:57
We are see on LTBA Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Cathay Pacific, Swiss, Air China

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Bulent737 - 2008-04-04, 13:06

Hi Bulent!
Finally joined us!
Kudos on your pics!

Yes Ania I am finally join Its really good share my photos with you.

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contrailsUK - 2008-04-14, 19:36
Hello,

Nice to have a new member to join us over here in the international contrail spotters section. Welcome

One from Saturday, contrails were forming very low, saw one contrail forming on a Virgin Atlantic 747 at 23,000ft. This BA was at approx. 26,000ft. Strangely enough the contrails were gone after FL300 :?

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Asdrius - 2008-04-16, 18:25
Welcome Bulent737. Nice to have new contributors to this forum, I guess there is lots of traffic high and low above Istanbul.

ContrailsUK I also experience this kind of effects more often recently. Contrails on lower levels and no contrails higher. Maybe it's something related to this season - spring?

Some new pics, from last few sunny days:

2008-04-14

Contrails were forming in FL330, but no contrails above FL370

17:53 UL29, flying high and no contrails
B747-400 B-2471 Air China CCA931 ZBAA-EDDF


19:15 UN858, at FL330 and nice contrails
B777-300 F-GSQA Air France AFR112 LFPG-ZSPD


19:19, at UL741(KRAKI-DUKAT) heading East - an interesting IL-76
IL-76 Gomelavia?




Not sure about airline. I guess it's Gomelavia, but it could be other companies as well. It flew from Kaliningrad, or somethere further from west like Denmark, Northern Germany? Maybe someone can help with exact identification of this one?

20:12 UM874
B737-300 KD Avia KNI992 UMKK-UUDD


2008-04-15

On this day contrails were forming on all altitudes, but thin cirrus layer at high altitude blocked the view. Only few pics I can show:

A new summer season flight for Lufthansa:
17:27 UN858
A340-300 D-AIGV Lufthansa DLH780 EDDF-ZSNJ


18:52
DC-10-40F VP-BDE Aeroflot Cargo RCF914 EDFH-UUEE


That's all.

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grztus - 2008-04-16, 19:03
It could be Gomelavia, but also Asia Continental Airlines. They are sometimes flying to Germany.

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Asdrius - 2008-04-16, 19:21
Yes it could be grztus.

The two most probable planes now I think are these:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Gomelavia/Ilyushin-Il-76TD/1187771
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Asia-Continental-Airlines/Ilyushin-Il-76TD/1337202

Both visited several European airports in 2008

Actually, I found in one spotters page sgmst that EW-240TH departed Geilenkirchen AB at 08/04/15 . But I saw this plane on 08/04/14, a day before . Maybe it's a mistake in that page, or it's another flight I saw.

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grztus - 2008-04-17, 02:43
Maybe in few days there will be some new photos on a.net or jp.net and we will see one of this planes. It's really difficult to say with one it was. Both are very similar and the only difference is the "Il-76 TD" words near the nose of Asia.

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contrailsUK - 2008-04-18, 21:39
Hi,

AVI4


UAL932


UAL982


CKS329


DAL106


JAI229


GEC8283 this one was so close to crossing the moon!

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Asdrius - 2008-04-24, 19:27
Hello,

Last several days had amazing weather. Crystal clear sky, unlimited visibility, no clouds and contrails forming at normal altitudes. What more can a contrail spotter want ?
And the best part is that weather forecast says the same high pressure system with such nice weather will stay for few more days

I still don't have enough time to process all the photos I made in recent days, because I spend all my free time outside photographing
Here some pics I managed quickly to process today:

2008/04/21

20:03 UN858
A321 Aeroflot ;AFL252 ;LFPG-UUEE


20:22 UN858
A319 Lufthansa ;DLH3208 ;EDDF-UWGG


2008/04/23

Donbassaero's nice colourful A320 operated a flight for Aerosvit:
10:57 UM996
A320 Donbassaero ; AEW216; ESSA-UKBB


In recent weeks Transaero changed the routing of Frankfurt-Moscow flight from usual UN858 via Poland, to a more northerly route via Kaliningrad and pass directly above my house everyday :
18:19 UM874
B737-400 EI-DDY Transaero; TSO308; EDDF-UUDD


19:35 UN858 FL330
DC-10F Aeroflot Cargo ;RCF908 ;EDFH-UUEE


2008/04/24

I got up early this morning and was not dissapointed. Delta routed their 2 daily USA-Moscow flights on southerly route via Poland UN858. Usually they fly up north via Stockholm and Estonia. The first one DAL30 JFK-Moscow was a bit too early, but I caught the later one:

08:20 UN858 FL330
B767-400 Delta ;DAL46 ;KATL-UUEE

First time ever I caught a 764

That's all, I 'll upload more pics later.

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contrailsUK - 2008-04-24, 22:00

Hello,

Last several days had amazing weather. Crystal clear sky, unlimited visibility, no clouds and contrails forming at normal altitudes. What more can a contrail spotter want ?



Ahh, for me the last few days have been quite the opposite - visibility poor, hazy sunshine... I could nearly look at the sun all day and not go blind
Today was better, showery weather with clear intervals but evertime it started to rain a plane would pass over

That Delta you saw would have passed over me on UW501 airway. Unfortunately I wasnt awake to see him

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Asdrius - 2008-04-25, 14:57
Yes it took UW501, here is DAL46 yesterday route:

DOOLY4 GRD J209 ORF J174 RIFLE ACK WHALE
N29B NANSO N29B RAFIN NATX GUNSO UM197
GAPLI UW501 REDFA UL620 ARNEM UP147 RKN
UL980 SUI UN858 BOKSU UN858 RATIN G723
TU G3 FK UM

Of course it was too dark for you to see it

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Asdrius - 2008-04-28, 21:00
Some more photos from last week:

2008/04/24:

18:09 UN858
A320 Air Berlin BER8394 EDDL-UUDD


18:36 UM874
B747-400 PH-CKB KLM Cargo KLM176 VHHH-EHAM


Tried some bizjet photogaphy. They fly so high and are so small, it's always difficult to capture them:
19:35 UN858
Gulfstream G-V, Netjets; heading east, probably to Moscow


19:43 UN858, FL390
Embraer ERJ-135 G-CMAF, LFPB-UUWW


19:57 UN858,
B747-400F F-GIUA Air France Cargo AFR6740 LFPG-ZSPD


20:23 UN858
B777-200 Air France AFR128 LFPG-ZBAA


20:27 UM874
B737-300 KD Avia KNI992 UMKK-UUDD


That's All

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Asdrius - 2008-04-29, 20:18
Some more from last week

2008/04/25

18:15 UL29 at FL360
B747-400 Air China CCA931 ZBAA-EDDF


18:19 UN858
B737-300 Kras Air KJC316 EDDV-UUDD


And a very interesting and beautiful VIP MD-87:
19:49 UN858,
MD-87 P4-AIR; EDDI-UUEE

click to zoom

Regards

Edit: added route information for P4-AIR

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G@wron - 2008-04-29, 20:23

And a very interesting and beautiful VIP MD-87:
19:49 UN858,
MD-87 P4-AIR; heading east
It was caught by henry a few days ago.

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Asdrius - 2008-04-29, 21:00
So it's not so rare as I thought.
Still a beautiful aircraft and I hope to see it more often. I don't see any MD-80 in my area

I also managed to destroy my photo camera yesterday. It fell from my hands and the lens is damaged. So for some time, until I buy a new one there will be no photos from me
But it was an old simple camera, maybe it's time to move on for more advanced equipment

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G@wron - 2008-04-29, 21:10
ohhh but maybe telescope

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contrailsUK - 2008-04-30, 16:22
The air france 777 and 747 are great