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Post by David K on Oct 17, 2011 16:46:01 GMT 1
Apologies on the time, getting mixed up with another flight
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Post by acklington on Oct 18, 2011 18:42:59 GMT 1
I'm posting some photos of Tor Air's ES-LBD, taken on Sunday night, because I've achieved a lifetime first! ;D And need to boast about it to someone  . In 50 years of aviation photography these are my first ever succesful photos of an aircraft moving, taken at night.     Stand 3 at the Isle of Man Airport is next to the public road, and reasonably well lit by floodlights. There is the standard chain-link fence between you and the action. As this Tor Air 737 taxied in, I held my Cannon 400D with 18-55 mm lens, up to the chain-link, and clicked away in RAW. The ISO setting was the maximum of 1600 (with grain like golfballs!), aperture priority, shutter speed recorded at 1/30 at F5.6, and exposure compensation of minus two whole stops. The wind speed was a lively 20 knots, and the fence was vibrating significantly, but I'd picked a spot close to one of the concrete posts, which steadied things a bit. Even so, the results were that one third of the pictures were blurred beyond use; another third had some blurring but were better than nowt; and to my great surprise, the remaining third were sharp! Back home, the images were subjected to some serious noise reduction in "Noise Ninja", and some other tweeks. They may not win any photo competitions, but I'm very pleased to have these action shots of ES-LBD taken at night. |
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Post by superian on Oct 18, 2011 20:57:09 GMT 1
Nice pics acklington. You did well there through a wobbly chain link fence.
Ian.
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Post by marquis on Oct 24, 2011 11:34:56 GMT 1
At last, something worth reporting - Kingair 250 N117EU is the first of this new variant to visit - not far behind Abelag's Excel OOCEH.
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Post by David K on Oct 25, 2011 14:04:26 GMT 1
Monarch A320 G-OZBK called in last night on the Madiera direct flight
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Post by marquis on Oct 25, 2011 16:54:33 GMT 1
Perked up a bit today with just about the best weather we've had all month !
Hawk T2s - ZK035 on a single g/a at 1358 "VYT83" and then ZK014 did 2 g/as at 1532/1542 as "VYT94" (times local).
In between was brand new Falcon 7X GITIM c/n 128, which appears to have been on delivery.
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Post by marquis on Oct 27, 2011 17:04:18 GMT 1
More Hawk go-arounds today - two this morning unidentified but "VYT99" at 1405 and 1415 was T2 ZK037.
Also this afternoon long-term Andreas resident Vans RV-6A GBXVM ventured down for a couple of touch and goes at Ronaldsway (possibly its first ever visit ?).
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Post by David K on Oct 29, 2011 22:42:41 GMT 1
Cobham Do228 G-OMAF visited again this afternoon
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Post by marquis on Oct 31, 2011 17:58:13 GMT 1
and to end a poor month on a whimper ... only Cessna 550 GWAIN on its second visit this year.
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