Planespotting at Montreal (CYUL), and other places I have visited.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Windy spotting (gust @ 49 knots)

My great idea of the day was to walk 5 km on icy sidewalks and streets, dotted with huge puddle of water, all with gusts of wind near of 90km/h...

METARS:

YUL MONTREAL/DORVAL QB CN Raw surface observations for station CYUL
CYUL 282200Z 23032G48KT 15SM BKN052 BKN120 04/M02 A2957 RMK SC5AC1 SLP015=
CYUL 282100Z 23039G45KT 15SM FEW040 SCT120 04/M02 A2955 RMK SC2AC1 SLP007=
CYUL 282000Z 23030G46KT 30SM FEW030 SCT120 06/M01 A2950 RMK SC2AC0 SLP990=
CYUL 281900Z 21021G28KT 30SM FEW050 BKN090 BKN120 07/01 A2945 RMK SC2AC3AC1 SLP974=
CYUL 281800Z CCA 24036G49KT 15SM OVC047 10/04 A2950 RMK SC8 PRESRR SLP990=
CYUL 281800Z 24036G49KT 15SM OVC047 10/04 A2950 RMK SC8 SLP990=
CYUL 281744Z 24035G44KT 15SM -SHRA OVC030 12/ RMK SC8=
CYUL 281700Z 15014KT 15SM BKN050 OVC090 06/04 A2941 RMK SC7AC1 SLP960=
CYUL 281600Z 13012KT 30SM BKN058 OVC090 05/03 A2946 RMK SC6AC2 SLP977=

Westjet

Boeing 737-76N

Reg: C-GWSE

US Airways Express

Embraer ERJ-170

Reg: N812MD

Westjet

Boeing 737-6CT

Reg: C-GWSI

Shuttle America

Embraer ERJ-170

Reg: N860RW

Air Canada

Embraer ERJ-190

Reg: C-FHNW

Delta Connection

Bombardier CRJ-100

Reg: N964CA

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28 Dec 08

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Morning spotting

After a night's work, I decided to increase my lack of sleep, and enjoy a relatively calm morning, scattered with cirrus and sunny breaks...

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AC's retro bird

Trans-Canada Airlines (Air Canada)

Airbus 319-114

Reg: C-FZUH

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Beautiful livery

Bombardier BD-100

Reg: C-FUBM
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Old, noisy and polluting, but so beautiful to see and hear at take off ...

First Air

Boeing 737-248C(Adv)

Reg: C-FNVT

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Really??

Aviation Starlink

Dassault Falcon 2000

C-GOHB

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30 Nov 2008

Friday, November 21, 2008

My top 3 of weird landing...

3rd place:

Landing on left wheel for this B732 of First Air

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2nd place:

This very hard landing gave a big jump to this B753 (ATA Airlines)
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And the 1st place:

No, this AT A310 doesn't walk... It just was the strangest landing I ever saw...

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Need an air dryer?

Air Canada

Airbus 321-211

Reg: C-GJWD

09 Nov 08

Sunday, November 9, 2008

C-FRAM from France...

Air Canada

Boeing 777-333/ER

Reg: C-FRAM

9 Nov 08

Friday, November 7, 2008

Unbelievable luck!!

6th November
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In the middle of the week, I received my new toy ... A Canon 40D. The next day, before going to work, I could not resist to go for a ride to the airport to test my new beast ... The weather was foggy, and the sun was emerging behind me. Arrived on 55th Avenue, I took this first image that will not bring anything from a technical photo, but what chance to see 3 Boeing 767-200 (with 3 differents livery) which never fly for Air Canada ...

This second picture is an A319 ex Frontier Airlines that is directed to the Russian company "Rossiya".
That's what we can call "globalization"... Former capitalist Airlines for a communist company, European aircraft and a paintjob in Canada... :)

7th November

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Dreary weather today, but despite this, I still wanted to continue my test ... When I decided to take some pictures, I did not expect to see the last two A343 Air Canada, and at the same time on the tarmac of the airport!