Maastricht & Lüttich

[K-Man]

Hi Leute,

ich habe vor in nächster Zeit mal nach Maastricht zu fahren. Lohnt sich da ein Besuch? Wie siehts mit Spottingmöglichkeiten aus? Kann da jemand aus eigener Erfahrung was sagen?

Gleiche Fragen gelten auch für Lüttich (Liege)?

Danke im voraus,
K-Man

[Morpheus]

Maastricht is good spotting. Maybe you can ask the guys from Spotting Group Maastricht?

This is their site: http://www.sgmst.nl/

Liege is not good for spotting. In the landing it is oke, but around the apron is a double fence. This fence is more than two meters high, so you need a giant ladder!!! In the hours around midnight there is a lot of freight traffic. But do not go there on an evening during the weekend, because then you hardly see something in the air!!!

It should be better when the new terminal is finished, because there should be a spotting terrace on the top of it!?!

greetz, Rene

[Triple Nickel]

That is true. Maastricht is good for spotting/photographing. May be you can have a look in at the website from Spotting Group Maastricht for the expected aircraft ot timetable.

Liege is also more active during the nighttime, but during the day you can see ineresting aircraft here. (I once had an Iran Air Force B747!!) The double fencing is a problem for taking pics. But there are possibilyies and both landings are great for photography. Especially wenn they use Runway 05. There you have traffic lights to stop traffic if an a/c is on approach...

Of course on the north side of Liege is the military part of Liege (Bierset) The operate some A109's.

Here's a nice Liege pic: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/671838/M/

Greetz, Ron

[Copter]

Maastricht is good indeed. There are not that much activities, but allmost every day there are nice visitors.

Liege is also very busy (specially at night). Be carefull, the MP doesn't like spotting near the military part (A.109 / BN-2). Last week there was a RAF C-17 at Liege.

Copter

[K-Man]

Hi,

erstmal danke für die Tips. Ich hatte vor, wenn ich mal wieder in GKE bin, mal nach Maastricht rüberzufahren...mal sehen, wann sich das ergibt.

Danke,
K-Man

[mstaviation]

Before you go to Maastricht check out this:
http://www.mst-aviation.nl that`s all your need when you go to MST

Best Regards,
Bjorn
http://www.mst-aviation.nl