Plane spotting at Knock

Captain Slow IRL

Is there any good places to go, to watch planes land and take off at Knock Airport?!

oscarBravo

As you turn off the N17 and head up the R376 toward the airport, you can turn left and drive up towards the airport fuel farm and the telecoms installations. If you turn left at the top, you can go right in among the approach lights for runway 27, and let the planes fly right over your head on approach (assuming the wind is westerly, which it usually is).

Captain Slow IRL

Will there be anyone out to move you on?! With security around airports, being the way it is!

oscarBravo

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

Will there be anyone out to move you on?! With security around airports, being the way it is!

It's outside the airport security fence, and you're likely to see other spotters and photographers there. It's not really any different to the places you can sit on the approach paths to Dublin or Shannon.

irishgeo

oscarBravo wrote: »

It's outside the airport security fence, and you're likely to see other spotters and photographers there. It's not really any different to the places you can sit on the approach paths to Dublin or Shannon.

thats the old airport rd.

Captain Slow IRL

Looking at in on google maps, you're on about the west end of the runway?

oscarBravo

Nope; east.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.9125639,-8.7979922,918m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Captain Slow IRL

Assuming it's a westerly breeze, they'll be taking off starting from this end also?

oscarBravo

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

Assuming it's a westerly breeze, they'll be taking off starting from this end also?

Yup. They'll taxi out, backtrack to the east, turn around on the turning circle, then take off to the west.

Landings are much more fun.

YouTookMyName

Boeing 737-800
Airbus A320-200
Bombardier Dash 8 Q400

Saved you the trip. :P

Captain Slow IRL

It's not for me, it's for a 2year old!