FEBRUARY 2009

[Asdrius]

Hello.

February started as a great month in Lithuania. First 3 days were completely clear, from dusk till dawn and good contrail conditions high above. Only it was a little a bit cold (temperatures around -14 C)

2009-02-01

14:27 UN858
A320 British Midland; BMA891 EGLL-UUDD


14:38 UL29
B737-500 LY-AWE SCAT; VSV5071 UAAA-EDDT

SCAT airlines is rare catch in my area. But this B735 not long ago was a common sight, when it was part of FlyLal fleet.

15:31 UL29
B777-200 HL7742 Asiana; AAR541 RKSI-EDDF


2009-02-02

09:25 at FL400
A330 PH-AOK KLM410 UAAA-EHAM


09:28 UM874 At FL320
B737-300 EI-DMM; KD Avia; KNI510 UWWW-UMKK


10:43 UM870 at FL370
B767-300 UR-VVO; Aerosvit; AEW142 CYYZ-UKBB

[G@wron]

Hello.

February started as a great month in Lithuania. First 3 days were completely clear, from dusk till dawn and good contrail conditions high above. Only it was a little a bit cold (temperatures around -14 C)

I havent seen clear sky for ages

[Asdrius]

I havent seen clear sky for ages

I understand how you feel. Winter is very cloudy season in our region. My last clear day before February 1st, was January 13. So I had to live for 18 days without clear skies
And after 3 nice days, today the sky was already completely covered by clouds. The next clear day for me will probably be only in March

Here is one more nice picture:

2009-02-01
16:34 UN858
B747-400 B-HOS Cathay Pacific; CPA270 EHAM-VHHH

[grztus]

My last clear day before February 1st, was January 13. So I had to live for 18 days without clear skies

I hope, this never come again

Week ago I had a few hours of clear sky, and I've prepared a movie from my Synta with A340-600 Virgin Atlantic VS301 (there's a mistake in the title).
The movie is 52 Mb size.
CLICK

I have also movies of SQ317 and QF32 - both at A380, but first I need to reinstall my WinXP, so maybe you will see it at weekend or a little later.

[Asdrius]

Nice video, I like the last 10sec the, when it's possible to see how airplane wake vortex distorts the contrail.
What euipment did you use to capture this video?

I tried some time ago, to put my Panasonic camcoder to the eyepiece of my spotting scope. It was very difficult to get a good view, lot's of vignetting (dark edges). Only when used full zoom on the camera, I could avoid vignetting, but the quality was not too good then.

I also discovered, that the biggest problem with making videos of this kind is to keep the view stable. I see you also had problems with stability when zoomed in.

One more photo from last few days:

2009-02-03

15:45
B747-400 PH-BFD; KLM888 VHHH-EHAM

[jpro747]

Hi,

The days are beginning to get longer now, and I was able to spot the LAN Cargo 767 heading to EHAM and the UPS Cargo MD-11 heading to EDDK that usually appear in the summer:



Seen this morning, North American Airlines 767 heading East to Ramstein AB: