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Ok as you know i am gone for a week starting monday.
I was wondering if anyone knows if the viewing deck at gatwick has been re-opend. Me and my dad are staying at a local hotel near gatwick as we have an early 6:30am check in time. But are likely to get to gatwick at about 3pm monday. So i want to get in some spotting if the deck is open as spending that long in a hotel room would send me crazy
I have checked BAA's website anet and a load of other places but cant find an answer so i thought someone here may know.

I really wouldn't know Craig. Gatwick has changed out of all recognition over the last few years. If the weather's nice & you have few hours to spare drive out to the village of Charlwood. This is right on one end if the Gatwick runway. There are a couple of nice pubs there & you could sit out in the beer garden watching airliners to your heart's content.

Not sure if they will be close enough to take any decent photos.

Thanks doug.
I am hoping to get pleanty of pictures during my transit times as i have no real limitations this time so even if its not close enough that time somewhere it will be:). I will give this village a look if the weather and time is right, thank you for the suggestion.

Hey Craig, do you know if you'll be using the new passenger bridge?
If so try and get some pics from it please.

[glb]Thanx. Carl[/glb]

Just checked and SkyView is STILL closed.
Guess there'll be no shots from that then

[glb]Thanx. Carl[/glb]

sadly not. Its a north terminal thing anyway isnt it? I am going from the south. I will try to get some shots of it though its certainly impressive. I love the sky train to the sattelite terminal that gives some great shots.