BRU 07/02/2013

[tangolima]

Hello

For the private jet lovers......

Sur Aviation Citation Mustang EC-LCX:

STD. 14.00 to GVA

Greetings,

PS: Today an EU-summit will start

[Bruspotter]

Hi

Thx for sharing Tangolima.
As you mention it, indeed Thursday & Friday is EU summit in Brussels.

EDIT: No exact arrival times and visitors known but I guess it will be usual stuff ...
Meeting starts at 3PM so I guess they will start to arrive from 11/12hrs on till about 14hrs.

source: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/homepage ... de?lang=en

Regards, Yannick

[tangolima]

Hello

Air Nostrum CRJ200:

10.35-11.05 YW 5210 AMS-BRU-VLC

Greetings,

[tangolima]

Hello

Turkish Airlines B737-900 TC-JYA:

10.31-11.40 TK 1937/1938 IST-BRU-IST

Greetings,

[hvs89]

Hello,
If somebody drives along Abelag, could you tell us which (governmental) planes are parked in front of the Brussels Airlines parking ?
Thanks a lot !

[Tomskii]

Currently seated in wingtips seeing them all arrive. Currently I am not allowed to go near Abelag by the police (not even on foot) so. Probably most will be parked at SN parking and the rest to the right. There's not that much room anyway.

[Skyman]

Just tried at abelag but there is no possibilities
At wingtip too and saw the french gov. Arrived .

[tangolima]

Hello

German Air Force A319 15+02:

ETA 14.15 as GAF624 from TXL

Greetings,

[Tomskii]

Just tried at abelag but there is no possibilities
At wingtip too and saw the french gov. Arrived .

Where were you seated, you must have been close to me. I was sitting with my laptop at the window completely to the right at the delta.

@Tangolima: Landed

[Bruspotter]

Hi

That sucks. Not even at the entrance of the Abelag parking (public road)? I never had a problem with that, usually I have a brief chat with the police officers stating my intentions and so far as long as I didn't ENTER the parking they didn't make a problem out of that. Remind ... they can't actually even forbid you to stand there, it's a public road. They can only do that if they completely lock down the road for all trafic (incl, busses, cars, bycicles, pedestrians).

So far as the EU arrivals, well apart from the weather which was really shitty with moments (just TOO dark) it did gave some nice contrast in the background for some planes, but not the ones I needed it to be such for. It seems that RWY 25R was temporary closed for some reason (no idea why). This meant I was lucky enough to see them all arriving on 25L (except for the Czech and Polish ones (didn't see them), just missed the Greek AF EMB but it landed on 25R), finally the French and the Germans DID land on 25R (of course, what else could we expect). And I don't know how the Dutch delegation travels to Brussels for the EU summit but I would swear I saw them overtaking me on the E19 at high speed with a big police escorte.

Well we can have another try tomorrow if the weather is sunny enough (or dry enough at least). Probably they will be departing between 14-16hrs (as the meeting SHOULD end at about 13hrs LT).

Regards, Yannick

[Skyman]

Ahah I was seating on the right side...I remember now a men with a laptop on the last table , I was just next to you...in uniform

[Tomskii]

Oooh hahaha completely must have missed you, was recording this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PSBYVpEr-4

@Bruspotter: I asked a police officer he didn't know so I went on to the checkpoint where two friendly agents told me the area was on temporary lockdown and you could only pass if you had to go to the BIAC car park or to the SN headquarters (with your airport badge)

[Bruspotter]

Hi,

@ Tomskii, that's indeed annoying. But still strange .. also not if you where ON a bus? Because I recall last time I was standing with a friend taking pictures at the beginning of Abelag parking (even with my ladder and they didn't make a problem out of that) and there was no problem. However the only problem was getting to pass the 'VIP entrance' of Abelag. Another friend who works at the JAF house a little further happen to had to collect his badge around noon and was denied access to pass. However they did tell him that if he was taking a bus and he was on it, there was no problem because they would let the busses pass by. So maybe you ought to try that next time? Or if you are planning that, make sure you arrive at the spot at the other side of the VIP entrance (the side of the B-house, Jetair-house etc ...). Maybe if you come from that side it is no problem to go so far as the main Abelag parking because you don't have to be near the VIP entrance of Abelag (small parking). Just an idea, worth trying maybe

By the way, nice movie you made there, really like it! Should have one pointed on 25R one time for the departures, would be nice . But I guess you have to have a really powerfull and long lasting battery doesn't it? I know that if I film with my DSLR (Canon 500D) on highest quality it gives you massive big files after just 5min filming so I don't know exactly how do you do it and how long this time lapse was actually in real time. But, wouldn't know how to do that, really nice! It looks by the way a lot nicer with the rainshower etc .. brings in 'live'. Though I must say it's nicer to watch from behind the cozy table at Wingtips then I had to stand outside awaiting arrivals at 25L haha.

Oh by the way, for those interested, here are some pics from that day. Was only there for 2 hours, just for the sumit arrivals (only missed a few in the beginning or during one of the many rain/snow showers that afternoon) and left afterworths because it was getting to could and I was fed up with the rain.
So expect no top shots, but just for the fun/benefit of sharing maybe . I DO was the only one at that location so if there is anyone else from another location, feel free to share your shots as well.

- sorry, didn't took the effort to again rescaling down the image to 800px so not display fully, to see the full picture click right on it and select 'view image' -

Croatia Republic Challenger, long time not seen. Arrived under callsign '9 Alpha Charly Romeo Oscar'

UK Air Force BAe 146-100CC arriving under callsign 'Kitty Hawk 10'

KRF 10 bringing in David Cameron and his delegation at the EU summit

not the most beautifull shot ... but my first Thai 777 at Brussels so couldn't resist. Taken at full 300mm

Repubblica Italiana carrying Mario Monti and his delegation

Italian Air Force Airbus A319-CJ

this must have been taken during one of the sunniest moments of the afternoon ...

and with nice contrast ...

bad weather , but ... vortex! This came in due to temporary closure of 25R, can't complain!

touchdown! long time since I've actually seen a 747 landing at 25L, couple of years ago at least ...

can't get enough of this one ..

just as a dark storm cloud suddenly came across the runway ... F*** up settings

"SSG 002" Slovak Republic Tu-154M

made a long aerodynamical roll-out with nice powerfull reverse action

"Tarom 8805" operating for Romania Government, YR-LCB

YR-LCB

LZ-001, also seen all other times ... came in as "BGF xxx"

Spain Air Force Falcon 900 as "Airmil xxx"

British Airways (Sun Air of Scandinavia) BAe Jetstream-31



Regards, Yannick

[Tomskii]

Hi Yannick,

Love your pictures!

The footage I recorded was about 3 hours long. And they are all seperate pictures 1 shot each 2 seconds. The footage was shot with my GoPro HD Hero 3 White Edition. The battery that's in there is small but almost as thick as the casing itself. Normally if I film or do these photo timelapses it should last about 4 hours before I would have to recharge it or change the battery. If I would like to I can just plug in the USB cable and keep it charged constantly (But I wasn't seeing myself sitting there until 10pm lol)

As for the 25R departures, that might be an idea for next time ^^

[Bruspotter]

Hi, Tomskii

Thx for the appreciation .
Aha so it's actually a camera which is more suitable for it then I couldn't image my recording 4hours in one stretch .
Actually am really a 'liker' of that kind of filming. Maybe should try it as well one day if I have a film camera. I'd love to make one from the morning arrival rush and the morning departure rush on 25R. Would be nice to have it just set up somewhere and you can just take pictures the whole morning, you can see afterworths like it was a webcam at the airport (something I would really like to see happening for real, a fixed webcam at the airport, at least if it was to check how the weather was at that time ).

Best regards, Yannick

[Tomskii]

Hi, Tomskii

Thx for the appreciation .
Aha so it's actually a camera which is more suitable for it then I couldn't image my recording 4hours in one stretch .
Actually am really a 'liker' of that kind of filming. Maybe should try it as well one day if I have a film camera. I'd love to make one from the morning arrival rush and the morning departure rush on 25R. Would be nice to have it just set up somewhere and you can just take pictures the whole morning, you can see afterworths like it was a webcam at the airport (something I would really like to see happening for real, a fixed webcam at the airport, at least if it was to check how the weather was at that time ).

Best regards, Yannick

Well more suitable, it's a wideangle lens that's standard on there and it's mostly used for Ski trips, car stupidities etc but it's so versatile that you can do anything with them.

PS: Honestly I think we as spotters should try to arrange something with BRU to get a spottersplatform on those balconies of the B-Pier or on the roof of the to be built connector building. (although I'll never see that happen )

There's a lot of potential on BRU grounds for such a spotter location but BRU nor anyone else seem to care much.