Ruud in ich waren vond 4-8 Marz in Innsbruck. Hat spass gemacht. Hier ein paar bilder.
Ich hatte einen blog gemacht, - in English... also der restlichen tripreport inst in English.
4 MARCH 2011
On our trip to Innsbruck, Austria, we decided to go early and stayed the night at Stuttgart and take some nightshots there. On the www we did some research, and the coordinates for ”Leinfelder Hohe” was set into our GPS. A this spot you have a good overview of Stuttgart’s runway. It was a cold starry night with a light breeze from the east. Runway 07 was in use, thus all aircraft came right over our heads.
The following photo was taken at around 21.30 hrs at Stuttgart Airport. Lot of traffic going in and out of this airport. Some info: 49sec exposure at f18 with mirror lock up and 300mm. No wind.
5 MARCH 2011 (Saturday)
0615 was the time we were up and awake. We had a very nice breakfast (recommended!) in our Holiday Inn Express hotel at Stuttgart Airport (Dieselstrasse 20). We went on our way to Innsbruck at 7.15-isch…
The drive to Innsbruck was terrifying!!! Traffic jams all the way!!! Instead of the 3,5 hours of what the routeplanners on the web tell us we did it in 6,5 hours!! It was a real nightmare. Especially wenn we were in beautifull Austria driving between te snowwhite mountains and the bleu skies!
Arrival in Innsbruck was at 1400 sharp! We drove straight away to a higher point-of-view at the “Schwimmbad Völs” area and the Church on even higher grounds. We spent most of the afternoon here.
Check inn at the Hotel ”Kranebitterhof” was at 1700 hours and we did some nightshots directly afterwards.
At 2000 we called it a day and slided down the frozen path towards the car. Thereafter I enjoyed the biggest Schnitzel I ever had!!!
6 March 11 (sunday)
Another day at Innsbruck. Again the weather isn’t all that great. Al looooot of haze (fog) is hanging in the valley all day. So distant mountains cannot be seen very clearly.
We went up to the visitor terrace, but it is not possible to take good shots anymore…
So we spent most of the day at the 08 end of the runway. Insbruck is a rare airport with take offs and landings in both directions. So you can’t really bet on one side.
In the late afternoon we decided to go a hill in the approach path for runway 8. Some aircraft make this turn in a spectacular manner so we hoped for the best. Lucky for us we found a good spot right away. Only one aircraft made the turn nicely…
So we became Air Berlin fans…
March 7th 2011 (Monday)
Our last day at Innsbruck…
We were up at 0700 and went out at 0800, after a nice breakfast. The Kranenbitter Hotel is really recommended. Friendly staff and good food.
We decided to ”gamble” and went out to 6 miles out of runway 08, and hoping here for some nice inbounds. We didn’t get what we wanted, but some nice ones could be taken.
At 1100 we went back to the airport as there were no schedulled inbound aircraft for the next 1,5 hours. We went to the heli path at Innsbruck airport, were the Police and Flugambulance helo’s are located. We were there at the right moment as both choppers were outside. The police EC135 went out to do some winching trainining. Very nice to see.
After this we went to Innsbruck centre to take some pics from the ”Panorama Innsbruck” spot. Nice also. These foto’s will follow, (not yet edited
).In the afternoon we went back to our ”spot full of hope”, 6 miles out of Innsbruck’s runway. No luck either on cool turns….. but one easyjet came in nicely though..
This Easyjet is still 6 miles out!!
On Tuesday we went back home again from Innsbruck, to The Netherlands. The trip went via Stuttgart again. The coolest aircraft of the trip was on the Military Ramp… A United States Marines C-9. This one could not be photographed, only from 4 km distance…
After spending some time at the local Mc Donald’s we went on our way home. Traffic was moderate, with 3 congestions around the Koblenz area.
We were home in the evening. The trip, however short, was a succes. We were lucky to have that Air Berlin 737 in the turn, and were really lucky to see the Police EC135 fly at Innsbruck!!
More photos of this trip are avialable in the innsbruck gallery at my website.
Greetz, Ron
ich muss da immer an meine Fotos von Rennautos denken - Meistens sieht man nur Asphalt weil das Auto schon weg ist