You lucky bugger's. I see the african quite a lot down at manston, but the antonov is quite someting. Any ideas as to why they have to hold it so long with the engines spooled up. I notice that an 124''s do it as well.
Jetset wrote:That model looks pretty accurate, even down to the orange ladder going to the flight deck (a very scary climb). Does it come with a good panel?
LOL. When they are in Denver, it's usually 6 minutes on the end of the runway. It's rare they put them on one of the close runways because of that. I've never been able to find out what they're doing during that 6 minutes, but it's kinda cool when they get done and it's in the middle of the night. All you see while they're doing their checks is the beacons (white) and maybe the nav lights (depending on your angle). Since the beacons flash together a lot, from most angles, most will mistake the beacons for a radio tower. But then, when they're ready, all the landing lights, inspection lights, and other external lights come on nearly in unison and suddenly you realize there's a massive beheamouth on the runway and then you hear the roar as it accellerates down the runway at full power. Add in fog, and it's a surreal experience, especially when the plane dissappears into the clouds only a few hundred feet above or just dissappear into the fog.
I suffer from paranoid amnesia. I can't remember who I don't trust.
