The great big thanks to Air Boss, Mech1 and everyone else involved in today thread!

Lustrum

I'll start off

Great job, thanks a million

scudzilla

AWESOME job, and sooooo glad the weather turned for ya after the great work ya all put in

Shamrock231

Thanks to all, but also don't forget "DublinFlyer" for his feed as well. Really great job guys.

Mech1

ahh Man, no need, But thanks anyway

Davidth88

Guys .. indeed thanks to all involved .

Really enjoyed the show , I truly thought it would be canx when I woke up and saw the clouds almost on my house roof and pouring rain.

Fair play to the Met boys they must have given great advice to the organisers and that they had the balls to stick it out

Loved the day !

deandean

One of the best threads (and events!) ever.
Thanks and well done to all involved.
Dean

crosstownk

Yes indeed. Great job by all involved.

Super stuff!

Surveyor11

Fair play - juggling commercial, private, military and SAR aircraft, and the Irish weather in the mix (which ye also got right!). Kudos.

Amazing day:) - well done to all. And the Flightfest thread added so much to the build-up and the excitement. Even tho I travelled up as an aviation greenhorn I felt like I was part of a club. Thanks a mil.

LoonyLovegood

Well done to everyone. I missed it unfortunately, but looking at the photos and hearing from my little brother (a big plane fan) it went off brilliantly. Fair play lads, ye put a hell of a lot of work in

St. Leibowitz

Many thanks all. Great day. Well done.

jackal

Thanks to all involved in making it happen, caught the end of it only but it was pretty cool to see the a380 at least.

airbusa320

Thanks for making it happen, had a great day and really enjoyed the lead up to it here.
Some great information from Air Boss

SachaJ

Just to chime in. Great event lads and congrats to everyone who was involved.

The highlight for me was my 3 year old waving to everybody going on their holidays when a plane flew over (she thought the planes were full of passengers)......

She got particularly cross when the Strikemaster turned right instead of left like every other aircraft. The pilot would have gotten a right bollocking if she met him but I got it instead! made my day though.

Brilliant job and hopefully we'll see it again for the next gathering in 2023 or something.

Personally I loved the sight of the B17 coming down the river.

Mrs Docjewel

Thanks lads, we had a ball. It was probably a once in a lifetime event for a lot of people. Great thread as well, will miss checking in everyday in the build up to this

My thanks to all at SkyFest and all you feed folks, great day had! Managed to get an early finish from work, hop on a 747 bus into the a point via the tunnel, and see the whole show from there!

johnsds

Really enjoyed the show, my only gripe was the decision to keep the Coastguard helicopter at 800 feet when it can safely come down to low level, well done.

keith16

I'd like to thank the sea-dragon gods for not setting the passing aircraft ablaze.

Also, fair play to everyone who contributed on the flight-fest thread, was a brilliant read from start to (almost) end

Dublinflyer

Stunning video of the day, watch in HD and turn up the sound!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM0oieDnJNg

YbFocus

Glad this thread was started to show how much appreciation is there for people working all the angles on here

Really a fantastic day and I can only hope it may happen again.

Congratulations to all involved from Airboss and his colleagues for achieving what they did. It was a fantastic show and I am so happy that it didn't need to be called off at the last moment. I can only imagine the planning and costs that went into the event and hope that you all get the thanks you deserve.

And congratulations to Mech1 for his willingness to setup the atc feed in the past few months and putting real time and effort into something which he has no mad interest in. His effort leading up to flightfest should be recognised

And dublinflyer who came out of nowhere to produce a high quality feed for the show, between the two feeders there must have been quite a number of listeners at the time.

So in conlusion, Thanks

pclancy

I didnt get to see the show but thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussions to make it so enjoyable for everyone in A&A, its great when Boards.ie gets used in such a way.

foxcoverteddy

We came up from Kilkenny and boy was it worth the trip. We had a fantastic time, for our 12 year old it was a dream come true to see all the aircraft, apart from the ones that pass over at 30 odd thou we do not get much chance.
However all those involved did a superb job and one that will not be forgotten, can we do it again next year please.
Regards Foxy

urajoke

foxcoverteddy wrote: »

We came up from Kilkenny and boy was it worth the trip. We had a fantastic time, for our 12 year old it was a dream come true to see all the aircraft, apart from the ones that pass over at 30 odd thou we do not get much chance.
However all those involved did a superb job and one that will not be forgotten, can we do it again next year please.
Regards Foxy

http://www.farnborough.com/

Near London and will have lots of PROPER displays that will keep him happy for many years, plus Heathrow is only up the road for some big metal viewing.

Tenger

urajoke wrote: »

http://www.farnborough.com/

Near London and will have lots of PROPER displays that will keep him happy for many years, plus Heathrow is only up the road for some big metal viewing.

Can be done....fly to LHR Friday night, cheap hotel in London, very early train to Swindon (shuttle buses run from Swindon train station) book a room in Swindon for Saturday night....enjoy most of both days before train back to London and out to LHR to fly home.
-Of fly to Bristol and rent a car, however traffic is aparently mad near the airshow.

Davidth88

Tenger wrote: »

Can be done....fly to LHR Friday night, cheap hotel in London, very early train to Swindon (shuttle buses run from Swindon train station) book a room in Swindon for Saturday night....enjoy most of both days before train back to London and out to LHR to fly home.
-Of fly to Bristol and rent a car, however traffic is aparently mad near the airshow.

Swindon is a long way from Farnbourgh .

Are you thinking of Fairford ( RIAT ) ?

foxcoverteddy

What a splendid suggestion, had not given thought to that; however I was stationed close by Farnborough research centre, one could then see the testing being done, in a very large water tank.
A train down to Farnborough or Woking, definitely a shuttle bus job, we used public transport in Dublin which took all the tension out of the trip.
But once again many many thanks it is nice to be part of your forum.
Foxy

j.mcdrmd

For me FlightFest was magic.

To the pilot of the BA380.

This is what happened on the ground on Sir John Rogerson's Quay, at the BBQ place (it was warmer there), beside me, on your 1st approach.

A young fellow of about 10 or 11 years of age started to bounce up and down, he could not contain himself.

"Here it is. Here it IS, HERE It IS. …. I Can't BELIEVE IT. and iT'S HUGE."

Little bro had other ideas. "It doesn't look THAT big to me, the OTHER planes looked bigger."

Big bro decides to try and explain "But it's HUGE, just LOOK at the SIZE of that PLANE and the chimney, it's MUCH bigger than the other ones, you wouldn't even see some of the other planes, IF they were out THERE.

Little brother is not getting it so Big bro takes a different approach, (he never took his eyes off the plane though) Okay, so the SMALLER planes look BIG when they are CLOSE but, THIS plane is FAR away and it STILL looks HUGE, just WAIT till you SEE."

After that no explanations were necessary. It was massive, thanks BA.

Some people do not have a short little attention span.

Highlight of my day was to see people who actually understood what the event was all about and the level of difficulty involved coupled with the excellence of services in the viewing area. Thanks to all who made that happen. The build up from Air Boss et al was amazing also. I'm so happy that the weather opened up a window where the whole thing was possible.

The photographers who planted their feet on seats to gain, what, extra elevation, with their serious lenses, lost an opportunity, IMO, they should have taken pics from different angles, especially from the side streets to put the whole event into context. Pics of planes in the sky are 10 a penny.

I would really like to hear the ATC archive of the event because it would be sweet to couple the BA380 pilot's opinion from the air along with the memory of the young fellow I heard on the ground enjoying the whole thing. Is that available anywhere?

By the way, what is the longest shift acceptable for an ATC, considering it is such an important job?

Tenger

Davidth88 wrote: »

Swindon is a long way from Farnbourgh .

Are you thinking of Fairford ( RIAT ) ?

Ah bugger...yes I am......:eek::eek::eek:

I was looking at doing that this year but didn't get the time off work.