Hello enthusiasts,
I would just like to share with you my experience of flying Qantas airways boeing 767-300 from Sydney International to Melbourne Tullamarine.
It was a cold morning but for aviation I was willing to get up early, I was able to stay down in a sydney hotel the night before so that meant a get up of 3:00am in the morning.
VH-ZXC parked at the gate awaiting pax to board approximately 45 mins before our scheduled departure, the a/c had just landed from an international flight.
unfortunately after requesting a window seat I was given a window seat....just without a window: bugger. Anyhows we were five minutes late with pushback (which is good for QF) and taxied out to runway 16R for the kampi one departure route. Unfortunately we had to wait behind a company QF 747-400 to depart on rwy 16R which was heading for los angeles as QF107 non-stop, this only took a matter on minutes.
About five minutes later we lined up on runway 16R and full power was applied to engines 1 and 2...boy it was a low powered flight (because the a/c only had 12 tonnes of fuel onboard). About 3 seconds after rotating away from the runway I managed to get a peek out one of the windows and noticed some very awesome streams of ionised air particles escaping from the engines pylons which created an awesome white slipstream effect over the leading edge wing.
As the flight progressed we were greeted with the usual QF cabin staff who were quite nice offering breakie which was ok...for QF. I looked back again at the city of sydney to see some cliffs being illuminated with sunlight which just created an aurora effect with the leading edge of the wings.
As we reached crusing altitude of FL280 (28,000 feet) we accelerated up to 820 km.h or 227 meters/sec. The flight progressed quickly and we were soon on our descent into melbourne tullamarine.
After landing we were held short of the gate due to a Malaysian 747 pushing back for an international flight but I took one last scan accross the airport and on the south side I saw a mass of Ansett 767s, BAe-146 200s and a spectacle of what was once aviation history.
After disembarking the aircraft I went to avalon airshow 2003 !!!!
THE END...
P.S - this is the first flight/trip report I have ever composed as I thought they took too long to write!!!
Look forward to writing more..
Mark Nicol
I would just like to share with you my experience of flying Qantas airways boeing 767-300 from Sydney International to Melbourne Tullamarine.
It was a cold morning but for aviation I was willing to get up early, I was able to stay down in a sydney hotel the night before so that meant a get up of 3:00am in the morning.
VH-ZXC parked at the gate awaiting pax to board approximately 45 mins before our scheduled departure, the a/c had just landed from an international flight.
unfortunately after requesting a window seat I was given a window seat....just without a window: bugger. Anyhows we were five minutes late with pushback (which is good for QF) and taxied out to runway 16R for the kampi one departure route. Unfortunately we had to wait behind a company QF 747-400 to depart on rwy 16R which was heading for los angeles as QF107 non-stop, this only took a matter on minutes.
About five minutes later we lined up on runway 16R and full power was applied to engines 1 and 2...boy it was a low powered flight (because the a/c only had 12 tonnes of fuel onboard). About 3 seconds after rotating away from the runway I managed to get a peek out one of the windows and noticed some very awesome streams of ionised air particles escaping from the engines pylons which created an awesome white slipstream effect over the leading edge wing.
As the flight progressed we were greeted with the usual QF cabin staff who were quite nice offering breakie which was ok...for QF. I looked back again at the city of sydney to see some cliffs being illuminated with sunlight which just created an aurora effect with the leading edge of the wings.
As we reached crusing altitude of FL280 (28,000 feet) we accelerated up to 820 km.h or 227 meters/sec. The flight progressed quickly and we were soon on our descent into melbourne tullamarine.
After landing we were held short of the gate due to a Malaysian 747 pushing back for an international flight but I took one last scan accross the airport and on the south side I saw a mass of Ansett 767s, BAe-146 200s and a spectacle of what was once aviation history.
After disembarking the aircraft I went to avalon airshow 2003 !!!!
THE END...
P.S - this is the first flight/trip report I have ever composed as I thought they took too long to write!!!
Look forward to writing more..
Mark Nicol
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