Ronaldsway Thursday 26th Nov

[alexIOM]

Movements to note today:

- Nextjet ATP SE-MAK preformed a test flight before departing back to Stockholm Arlanda at 1115

- Phenom 300 M-ELON arrived at 1250 and parked on stand 14

- PC12 M-BISA visited PJC for a few hours

Some photos taken today:

SE-MAK to Stockholm Arlanda
NextJet BAe ATP SE-MAK at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by [url=https:NextJet BAe ATP SE-MAK at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by IOM Aviation Photography, on Flickr//www.flickr.com/photos/77756637@N03/]IOM Aviation Photography[/url], on Flickr
NextJet BAe ATP SE-MAK at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by IOM Aviation Photography, on Flickr
NextJet BAe ATP SE-MAK at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by IOM Aviation Photography, on Flickr
NextJet BAe ATP SE-MAK at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by IOM Aviation Photography, on Flickr
M-ELON from Kirkenes in far Northeast Norway, and on the boarder with Russia. Not sure we've had many arrivals from there before!
Phenom 300 M-ELON at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by IOM Aviation Photography, on Flickr
Phenom 300 M-ELON at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by IOM Aviation Photography, on Flickr
G-EZDP from Liverpool
Easyjet Airbus A319 G-EZDP at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by IOM Aviation Photography, on Flickr
Easyjet Airbus A319 G-EZDP at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by IOM Aviation Photography, on Flickr
M-BISA to Denham
Pilatus PC-12 M-BISA at Isle of Man EGNS 26/11/15 by IOM Aviation Photography, on Flickr

[acklington]

The first Melon photo is a cracker!

The ATP photos have great cloud backgrounds as well, and I've been wondering if it would be possible to do a 'reverse charter' in a passenger ATP - to save you a long trip. Getting out of the IOM would be easy, but it might be a month-long wait to get back!?

[alexIOM]

Thanks Ackington, although the only thing that keeps bugging me when I see M-ELON is that the Manx flag on the tail seems to be on a strange angle. Almost seems to be a common thing getting flags of countries wrong on aircraft. A recent example was G650 M-YSIX a few weeks ago, the Irish flag was the wrong way round!

It would be great catching a ride on one of the positioning Nextjet ATP's out of here and certainly would save the long drag to get to Sweden to fly on one for the last time. But I've looked into it and it is quite reasonable. As I posted on Calflier's thread on ATP flying, the best way I've found so far is IOM-Dublin-Stockholm-Tallin-Stansted-IOM and if booked a month or two in advance, all comes in at about £250. Not bad!

[robaero]

Hi Alex, only fly in the ointment is the Flybe Stansted IOM is due to finish, so you would have to do the trip before the end of the winter timetable.

[alexIOM]

Hi Robaero, Yes I am aware that Flybe are stopping the Stansted flights. Think it is the end of March. I was thinking maybe mid-march for doing it

Alex