BRU 01/08/2007

[jan_olieslagers]

Strange sight: about noon, a twin engine plane was overflying Brussels city centre. It passed several times but I could only see it once, it was white on the underside but the tail some kind of turquoise color. Could have been a Piper Seneca or so. The altitude I estimate at 3000 feet or so but I'm not good at estimating altitudes... Any idea what plane that was and how it got cleared for such flying?

A bit unusual also : I passed at Grimbergen airfield after work, nothing special to be seen there, but I did see two C-130's coming along at a heading of perhaps 230 degrees, reckon these made a visual 07L approach to Zaventem?

[AF036]

I saw also a twin engine flying over brussels yesterday evening but it was more like FL60 or FL100.
maybe OO-SAD king air of CICADE based in CRL. They are specialized in making aerial photography, that could explain the several fly over. Anyway it's just a guess.

http://www.myaviation.net/search/search ... gnr=OO-SAD

[SN_Bigbirdy]

A bit unusual also : I passed at Grimbergen airfield after work, nothing special to be seen there, but I did see two C-130's coming along at a heading of perhaps 230 degrees, reckon these made a visual 07L approach to Zaventem?

Correct, I was spotting at FP3 and the 2 Hercs landed 07L, first time I saw this kind of landing

And also unusual was the "landing" of a BA plane around 17u (LT). It did an approach but was way to high, so it did a go-around and landed then half an hour later after which it ... parked on rwy 02 for at least 10minutes causing a go-around for a bruAir Avro and a TAP Airbus... After intervention of a yellow (follow-me?)car it vacated the runway.

I post my pictures when I'm back from work

grtz,
Simon

[Skystef]

Strange sight: about noon, a twin engine plane was overflying Brussels city centre. It passed several times but I could only see it once, it was white on the underside but the tail some kind of turquoise color. Could have been a Piper Seneca or so. The altitude I estimate at 3000 feet or so but I'm not good at estimating altitudes... Any idea what plane that was and how it got cleared for such flying?

D-GAABwas active for a couple of hours from 1130LT, presumable on another Aerodata survey tour.

[ben222b]

I also saw the BA A32x go-around, watching from my apartment in central brussels - it seemed to be at a normal approach altitude, then pulled up quite hard and retracted its undercarriage - there was quite a bit of exhaust smoke from its engines too as it pulled up...

It turned over the centre of Brussels and then re-joined the queue to land seemingly normally.

I assumed there was traffic on the runway, as the approach seemed normal for speed and altitude.

[rut-her]

And also unusual was the "landing" of a BA plane around 17u (LT). It did an approach but was way to high, so it did a go-around and landed then half an hour later after which it ... parked on rwy 02 for at least 10minutes causing a go-around for a bruAir Avro and a TAP Airbus... After intervention of a yellow (follow-me?)car it vacated the runway.

I was present on the 'Zeven Tommen' and saw it too. The BruAir avro was OO-DWJ, so that gave us the opportunity to spot the new c/s on this one twice! The pilot was told to abort the approach when he was somewhere above the middle marker, but he continued the approach untill he was over the treshold and then pulled up. A nice flyby!

Greetz,
Rutger