ORK plane spotting

dzilla

Hello All,

I was wondering could anybody help me in finding a good spot to park up the car and watch a few planes landing @ cork airport?

Much appreciated,

D

pepe the prawn

dzilla wrote: »

Hello All,

I was wondering could anybody help me in finding a good spot to park up the car and watch a few planes landing @ cork airport?

Much appreciated,

D

If you drive out the back of the airport there's a few good spots there. Head out the pouladuff road and up the hill for about three or four miles and that'll bring you right next to the westerly side of the airport.

thelikelylad

You can park the car here

goo.gl/maps/vn4PU

(I'm not allowed to post full urls)

There's a small ditch across the road which gives you a good view in line with the 35 threshold.

dzilla

Brilliant I will make a few sambos and head up later!

Thanks

D

Cosmo Kramer

Don't make too many sandwiches - it gets pretty repetitive fairly quickly down at ORK these days.

dzilla

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Don't make too many sandwiches - it gets pretty repetitive fairly quickly down at ORK these days.

Hmm yes all 737s and a320s and ATRs?

Anyways not to worry can't have too many sambos

KCAccidental

There was a 717 last saturday. good ol' charters.

man98

Never spotted in ORK, but I'm close to the airport quite often. I saw a 737-400 from a Polish charter company, but nothing else unusual.

Johnny901

A mate was telling me Saturday mornings upto lunchtime best time to go, until the summer charters finish.

roundymac

Cork is a great place to be on a windy day, watching them on apporach you realise just how got pilots are at their job.

kub

roundymac wrote: »

Cork is a great place to be on a windy day, watching them on apporach you realise just how got pilots are at their job.

Is it a tough place to land? Just regarding it being on top of a hill and not the longest of runways?

man98

kub wrote: »

Is it a tough place to land? Just regarding it being on top of a hill and not the longest of runways?

The runway is wide, which is all that really matters. That said, Manx Flight 7100 didn't end well, but some of that was pilot error.

Growler!!!

man98 wrote: »

The runway is wide, which is all that really matters. That said, Manx Flight 7100 didn't end well, but some of that was pilot error.

The runway is a standard width of 45m.

radar0976

We do get some nice unusual stuff in from time to time. Here are four of the most unusual I've captured from the past few years

Russian VIP Tupolev TU-204

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HQmxlNKvMM

German Luftwaffe A310

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjrNBMD28Iw

EL AL 767-200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9tNziRHz4w

United States Coastguard - Gulfstream V

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyb7alwkBGQ

roundymac

Unfortunatly the unusal stuff is exactly that, you get to hear about it after it's been. A bit like the add for a choclate bar where your man is sitting outside the den at the zoo, he stops to take a break and the animals come start dancing and playing around and then vanish when he turns back.Yes sat morning is the best, last weekend I would say most charters ending either this weekend, normally and E190 to Verona plus a couple of Spanish charters as well as the regular stull. Page 573/574 on aertel is your man for info.
PS this weekend would be perfect for spotting, high winds and it's generally a cross wind would make great viewing. Also the runway is'nt that short, 2133m, prefect length for the type of traffic that comes into ORK.

kub

So with a runway at 2133m what aircraft other than the regulars cannot operate from it?
Could a 757/67/47/87 or a330/40 doing routes to US fully loaded be able to operate with a runway that length?

roundymac

A 757 could do the States east coast AFAIK. Anything elese would be severly limited. I don't know if that El-Al 767 did Tel Aviv in one hop. When the Heineken Cup was in it's hayday back in the mid noughties we used to have A300,A330, 757,747, and Tristars, mainly to Cardiff and Birmingham with a few to the South of France, Toulose mainly. A300/A330 were operated by Monarch, there was one A330 operated by My Travel I think. The 747s were Corsair, Air Atlanta, and there was one by a Swedish crowd, Jet Star or something like that, went bang not long after. I think the 747 has been turned into a hostel/hotel in Stockholm.

radar0976

roundymac wrote: »

A 757 could do the States east coast AFAIK. Anything elese would be severly limited. I don't know if that El-Al 767 did Tel Aviv in one hop. When the Heineken Cup was in it's hayday back in the mid noughties we used to have A300,A330, 757,747, and Tristars, mainly to Cardiff and Birmingham with a few to the South of France, Toulose mainly. A300/A330 were operated by Monarch, there was one A330 operated by My Travel I think. The 747s were Corsair, Air Atlanta, and there was one by a Swedish crowd, Jet Star or something like that, went bang not long after. I think the 747 has been turned into a hostel/hotel in Stockholm.

The El Al 767 definitely did Tel Aviv in one hop. I remember tracking it.