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Arriving LaGuardi KLGA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:04 am
by Fly2e

I was awakened by the captain saying...
"Flight attendants prepare for landing".
I looked out the window and there was Philadelphia!
To my amazement we were landing in about 10 minutes!


Lower Manhattan with Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island to the left.
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Midtown Manhattan.
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LaGuardia top of screen.
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Here you can see the new NY Mets baseball
stadium being built right next to the existing stadium.
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There is LaGuardia. The approach from the South will bring you up over Manhattan
banking East over Long Island which brings you parallel with the runway. A big U-turn is required for landing!
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U-Turn almost completed and there is the Throgs Neck Bridge top center
which connects Long Island to The Bronx.
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Very windy approach but full flaps and we are on the ground!
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And as always I will get a shot of the flight deck whenever flying.
Unfortuanately with my 2 little girls and gathering up everything, I forgot to remove my polarizing filter
and had my flash shut off! Those two things will leave you with the following shot after trying to clean it up. Sorry!
The MD 80 Flight Deck


Re: Arriving LaGuardi KLGA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:14 am
by mrjake2002
Excellent shots! Thank you for posting!  :)

Re: Arriving LaGuardi KLGA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:08 am
by Willit Run
Great shots, Dave!!

Hey, how come you didn't get any shots of Philly while you were over it?

Re: Arriving LaGuardi KLGA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:25 am
by Fly2e
I did, you need to click o the link!?

I looked out the window and there was Philadelphia!


Dave

Re: Arriving LaGuardi KLGA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:30 am
by Willit Run
D'oh!!

Re: Arriving LaGuardi KLGA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:37 am
by MWISimmer
I'd love to fly an MD80 one day, sadly the only airline that uses these from London is Scandinavian..and I've no plans to go to Sweden in the near future  :P
Great pics Dave.

Re: Arriving LaGuardi KLGA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:55 pm
by a1
Very nice. I really like the one with the rainbow.  ;)

Re: Arriving LaGuardi KLGA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:06 pm
by Omag 2.0
Fantastic shots Dave! This is what one calls decent in-fligh photography!  :)

Re: Arriving LaGuardi KLGA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:18 pm
by beaky
D'oh!!  Sorry!!!  Thanks!!!

Man, if you would have taken that picture about 10 seconds later you would had my neighborhood in the shot!!


You can see my house in the pic over New York Harbor... nyah nyah...  :P

Love that flight deck shot: so many switches, levers and steam gauges!! ;D