PMI/LEPA Palma de Mallorca 14-15-16 AUG

[tonjochems]

Spend a long weekend at PMI... Lots of variety this year... Excellent for shooting from the outside. Especially in the morning when 06r is in use for take-off... Just proceed to one of the two office buildings next to the runway and go to the parking on top of the roof. On the second one there is even a cafe with a terrace. Shots can be made with short zoom max 135mm for regionals like ATR of Dash on the runway. For shooting on the taxitrack behind you need a 200-300mm lens.
When 24R is in use the parking deck is only good for those aircraft vacating the runway on the 2nd highspeed intersection, which is about 50% of the traffic.
Another nice spot is the approach spot on 06L. Located in a nice park close to the sea.. easy to find... just follow the planes in the approach , or follow the coastline.. 200-300mmm is enough.
Busiest day used to be Saturday, this is now changed to sunday... about 15 aircraft in the queue for take off were seen
regularly... Saturdays a lot of Germans, English , Scandinavian. Sundays, a mix of everything with a lot of Italians, English, Germans, Russians, Czech, French. In fact a lot of variation.
Some highlights... with more uploads to follow..
YU-ANP.. still going strong ..still remember it when it was just delivered.....


VP-BVR Transaero B744


but nicer was... their TU214...



and the other side



Aeroflot Nord VP-BKT


Moscovia Airline VP-BFU


Yakutia Airlines VQ-BFG


Trawelfly I-STRE


Air Nostrum hybrid with Arik Air c/s Ec-LFU


Spains newest airline Alba Star EC-LAV


XL Germany D-AXLF


TUI FLY D-ATUD


Air Italy D-AGMR

[Sargo]

Really nice variety ! great shoots, well done. Thank you for showing

Jens

[InterAvia]

Really nice, well done!

[Rene Klok]

Nice ones!
I especially like the ''Quite737'' titels on the Aviogenex engines.

[Stephan Lodewijks]

I'm not into civil aircraft, but the colors on these photos look phantastic!

Regards,

Stephan

PS I can't help but wonder what a camouflaged Spanish Herc would have looked like with your equipment and in those light conditions....

[GoldenAce007]

Very nice (understatement) indeed Ton. I'm going there next week (a non spotting holiday) and to plan at least a 1/2 visit. Thanx for the tips on locations. Is the spot halfway the runway outside the airport still in use ?

[Luamax]

2 RNLAF PC-7's had a weekend stop at that field during that weekend and departed the 16th. Do you by any chance have a picture of them?

[tonjochems]

No I did not make any pics of the pc7's.. I saw them in front of the old Spantax hangar...
The spot halfway rwy 24r/06L is still there.. in case of 24 landings ok as from 1000

[tonjochems]

No I did not make any pics of the pc7's.. I saw them in front of the old Spantax hangar...
The spot halfway rwy 24r/06L is still there.. in case of 24 landings ok as from 1000

[GoldenAce007]

No I did not make any pics of the pc7's.. I saw them in front of the old Spantax hangar...
The spot halfway rwy 24r/06L is still there.. in case of 24 landings ok as from 1000

Vond nog een Google Maps link op het net :

http://maps.google.es/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&h ... 1e0c7e4efd" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hier staan alle spots aangegeven. Ga volgende week zelf maar even kijken

[tonjochems]

Will make the topic a bit more photoheavy to give a good impression what the traffic is like..
Via A320's operate flights to and from various place in Germany. Usually 2 a day


Eurofly on the Italian sunday


More Italians , Air Italy 767-200 appeared 2x on sunday with I-AIGI




NIKI EMB190.. numerous NIKI A320/321/EMB190 everyday


Swiss sunday too... this nice Skywork DHC8-400 appeared 2x from Bern


And a nice Darwin S2000


A Swiss Air Berlin


Edelweiss A320


English cover the place on a daily basis with most traffic on saturday and tuesdays... unfortunately less variety nowadays..
Easypest.... , Jet 2, Thomson, Thomas Cook.... too many...

First Choice 757-200W G-OOBH


Followed by a former First Choice 757-200W in a spotless Thomson jacket..


Fly Be EMB195.. also many around


Easy Jet A320, you will see A319,A320,A321 and a daily 757


Thomson daily with 757,767,738


BMI BABY

It made 2 take-off attempts and ended up on the main ramp for 8 hours.... happy passengers..

Et maitenant les amies de France

A 737 was seen as well..

And loads of Ryanair to be seen.... and yes still battling to get a shot EI-DCL in the Dreamliner c/s.....


Noted 4 of these DHC8-200's of Air Nostrum in the Arik c/s


Air Europa present with 737-800's and EMB195




Spanair present at PMI with MD80,MD87,717,A320,A321


Swiftair Present daily with ATR72 and EMB120




Iberia operating at PMI with A320/A321/CRJ900/ATR72




Well if you need Air Berlin go to PMI.... tooooooooooooooooo many operating in 4 waves per day







Lufthansa Italia present with various flight on sunday


TUI FLY also many of those... I got all specials in one day!!


More German hardcore.. Condor... loads..






Germania in the new updated livery


LOT Charter 737-400's can be seen during the weekend with at least 4 flights


Always nice to see KLM abroad on a non standard airport... operating for HV.. Remember the days
flying scheduled AMS-NCE-PMI with DC9-30... or DC8.... sometimes up to 8 a day!!!
OH start to get sentimental...


Cimber Sterling


Belgiums almost daily with Jetairfly and Thomas Cook


Best Easy JEt of the weekend , the leased Air Finland 757


Many Norwegian flights at PMI




And if you like General Aviation... loads around... many heavies..




Well I hope this will give all readers a good impression what can be expected at PMI..
It has changed a lot since the times of many widebodies in the 80's... remember the L1011's of Airtours,
Caledonian ,LTU, DC10's of Balair, Caledonian, Finnair, Scanair.... lowcost is the name today..

Next trip in SEP , a full week AYT... PMI/AYT is a superb combi if you want to cover the european
charter scene... just think about that... You will get at least 90% of all the specials during the summer season!

[Bokkum]

Moscovia Airline VP-BFU
Trawelfly I-STRG

VQ-BFU and G-STRI ..

But nice pictures ...

[Triple Nickel]

I'm not into civil aircraft, but the colors on these photos look phantastic!

Very nice photos indeed. But the colors do look a little too fantastic to me..... especially the reds.

Greetz, Ron

[HV7572KC]

wow! PMI really remains an excellent airport with splendid traffic! Some good catches ! I see the Russians get to find Mallorca also more then a few years ago, even the (close-by) Italians fly there with 767s! :O

[js51672]

VEry nice pictures again!

The Aviogenex, long time no see!
(still remember the Tu134's)