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Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:09 pm
by gtirob01
A British Airways 747. Ive seen them fly into San Diego in person. What a site! C&C please.

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Re: Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:40 pm
by ThomasKaira
Personal gripes:

The engines on the plane are wrong. BA used RB211 engines on their 747s, and yours has CF-6s.

The textures are very low-res, making the lane look a little iffy close up.

None of this is your fault, though, I'm just horrendously spoiled by PMDG. :D

Re: Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:59 am
by Reno
Not all BA 744's use RR engines dude, I know for a fact that none of the ones I've flown on had RR's. And a lot of the ones (Just kidding, some) of the ones I've seen at Heathrow, Vancouver, a few other places, they didn't have RR's. But yeah, textures are a little low-res. Nice shots though!One of my favourites! Love BA!

Re: Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:01 am
by The3lf
you forgot to mention that maybe only a dozen 747's ever land there. to big planes, and to steep aproch. they would most likely land from the east as well on runway 9. no buildings in they way do to city hi rise. in the past 15 yrs living in San Diego i know of only 1 747 that was here. it was crazy to see such a plane on a small tarmac.

just my food for thought, please dont beat me up to bad. i know some one will come up with some off the wall video of a 747 at KSAN.

Re: Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:22 am
by haroldkip
i know some one will come up with some off the wall video of a 747 at KSAN.

Not a video but four pages of photo's ;D

including a lot of very nice British Airways 747's :P

Re: Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:29 pm
by gtirob01
i know some one will come up with some off the wall video of a 747 at KSAN.

Not a video but four pages of photo's ;D

including a lot of very nice British Airways 747's :P


I guess you can say my inspiration for these screenshots came from that very site! Plus my memory once it got going, remembering seeing that BA 747 on final from my grandmothers place!

Re: Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:01 pm
by Wii
Turn the traffic down and turn everything else up :o

Re: Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:34 pm
by Sakura
Not all BA 744's use RR engines dude, I know for a fact that none of the ones I've flown on had RR's. And a lot of the ones (Just kidding, some) of the ones I've seen at Heathrow, Vancouver, a few other places, they didn't have RR's.


*Makes wrong buzzer noise*

Explain this then:
[quote]However, with the exception of 29 of its 777 fleet, it has often equipped its Boeing aircraft with British-made Rolls-Royce engines (examples include the Trent 800 on its Boeing 777s, the RB211-524 on its 747-400s and 767s and also RB211-535s on its 757-200s). This goes back to the 1960s when the company ordered Boeing 707s

Re: Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:29 pm
by Reno
It's Wiki. May not be right.

I'm just saying the ones I've seen on BA birds I've flown on (744's) they certainly didn't have RR engines.

Either way, RR or not, the BA 744 is one nice lookin' jet.

Re: Rare visitor to KSAN - BA content

PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:50 pm
by gtirob01
Turn the traffic down and turn everything else up :o


Used that advice for some of my shots from tonight. Posted up as randoms. I do think they are better! Although my comp cant handle much more it seems!