Here are the [better of the] photos I got. The first is of a Polynesian Blue B737-800 at Wellington. It came out surpisingly clear considering it was shot through glass. The next are a few pictures of Wellington City as we climbed out - the Basin Reserve [can anyone advise why the Basin has rugby posts on it? I though only cricket was played there], WestpacTrust Stadium [aka the Cake Tin] and then looking back to Wellington [we took off on runway 34, right to left in this picture].
The last image was of the inside of the ATR72 this evening. Both trips were fairly uneventful apart from a little turbulance both ways, and one of the Mount Cook hosties trying to convince a dance troupe to give us a demo in flight [they did wave their arms around a bit and got a clap :-)]!
One thing that was reinforced again, is that it is sooooo hard to get a good picture whilst climbing at several hundred knots, with turbulance and cruddy aircraft perspex to shoot through :-(
(Thanks to ZKARJ for the correction to the original version of this post)
4 comments:
"we took off on runway 16, right to left in this picture"
That would be runway 34, wouldn't it?
Ahhh, yes :-) Thanks for the correction - I've corrected the post now.
Just tell me that was a one off, "I'm sitting at home not concentrating" thing and that if you're PIC you wouldn't make that mistake! ;-)
ha ha ha... I've never lined up on the wrong runway yet... future results may vary! :-)
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