Trip Finkenwerder-Copenhagen-Hamburg-finkenwerder 'HEAVY!!!'

[rutger330]

Good afternoon all,

on the 29th of april we departed for Copenhagen to do some spotting for 1 week there,
but we couldn't drive the whole distance in once so we had our route plannend out

Finkenwerder-Copenhagen-Hamburg fuhlsbuttel-Finkenwerder

so we drove off around 02:00 and arrived in 'finky' around 08:15,
on our way we met german friends who would join us on this trip

starting at Finkenwerder:

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5. delivery flight for this TK A321 TC-JRO to IST


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7. delivery flight from this nice Vietnam A321, Dep to Baku as vietnam 323


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9. blank frontier arriving from TLS


10. first A319CJ for Rossiya departing to TLS


before we left the spotting hill we heard from some locals that there should be a Shenzen A320 come in around 19:00 on delivery flight from TLS so we decided to go to the afternoon/evening spot...

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12. and here it was the Shenzen A320 on delivery flight from TLS, for fuel stop at Finky


we were very lucky with such traffic!
after the shenzen we went to the hotel in HAM and got some sleep,
next morning departed to CPH Via the puttgarden-rodby ferry

13. the ferry


around 12:00 we arrived in CPH,
and we went directly to the Flyvergrillen to Meet Mr. Silverwingpix
we got some great tips from him about spotting and was nice meeting him

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15. on the Iceland express flight the Iron Maiden 757 came in we saw it landing 04L after that they started take off 22R! here on T/O


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18. Surprise! this A340 from NRT landed 22R very nice site


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20. Fokker 50 still going strong on CPH


after that we checked in our hotel for some sleep and starting next day at 09:00
RW's: 04L landing, 04R take off

Thanks to MR silverwingpix we had a great spot at 04L

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27. the VV flight was plannend in the morning with a 734 but finally this amazing bird came in


28. we went to the 04R for take off


29. then the departure off this stunning bird again


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and we called it a day, monday we went to CPH city to do sight seeing wich was very nice
so back on tuesday again at the airport...
RW's: 22L landing, 22R take off later changed 04L / 04R

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39. flying for Blue1


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we went back to the hotel and started the next dat at 04:00
RW's: 04L landing, 04R take off

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44. little tornado at the engine


45. and the regular DHL AN-26 Exin to Stavanger


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47. Landing 04R


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52. for Aerosvit


53. the flying tomatoe


54. BLX818 dep to Phuket


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56. then a swedish harvard departed , it made a flyby around the new and old tower and dissapeared


57. a rare SAS bird LN-BUD in white


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60. ahh, and then to end the day with a Carlsberg


the last day in CPH was there just 4 hours spotting before we went back to the ferry to Puttgarden again

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after some spotting we went to the ferry and from puttgarden drove back to HAM to look up the spotting position for that next day wich we would spend there
and caught 2 nice ones within 3 minutes

68. a Thai A330-300 was standing outside LH technik


69. finally caught it although with backlight but still nice


then to the hotel for some sleep, waking up next day early as there was a 747SP expected at HAM
sadly never showed up but still some other nice ones

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76. then Rossiya came in but with a VERY nice surprise an AN-148 so the 2nd one in 1 week


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after the AN-148 we decided to go to Finkenwerder at the RW23 spot wich give also a nice view at the harbour
since the harbour celibrated his 100th birthday with some nice big ships as well so great for plane and ship spotters

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81. just as this Beluga came in a big russian ship was sailing directly underneath the short final position so it was a great site to see


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84. then the A380 korean was being towed into a hangar but still managed a shot dispite heatwaves


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then after 1 week of great fun, everything was over again and we had to go home...
we thanked the germans for the great company and we drove home after 6,5 hours of driving we arrived back in spijkenisse again

I would like to thank some people for making this possible:

Ierland1 for the driving
Mr Silverwingpix for the information at CPH
the german guys for the great company
and the guys from Finkenwerder who gave us some great info

for all you watching this...

I hope you like this report, I will later post some shots from the spots where we took the pictures from

[rutger330]

as promised here some shots from the spotting places we were:

1. at Copenhagen the Flyvergrillen, the afternoon position


2. at Hamburg Fuhlsbuttel, morning position with little shop to get coffee etc..


3. at Finkenwerder the RW23 position

[Boudewijn van Oirschot]

Well, these emoticons clearly explain how I feel after watching your report



Your must have had a great time.. thanks for sharing us the pictures!

[maarten-sr]

Hi Rutger very nice 5* report, thx for sharing

[n.p.quist]

Very nice report and pictures

[MAS017]

Very nice Trip-report !!!

Interesting to see the Rossiya AN-148 has an advertisement on the fuselage of "Ilyushin Finans Company"...

Also nice to include both the CPH and HAM spotting spots

[rutger330]

thanks guys,

if someone is maybe planning to go to one of those airports,
please send me a message and I will reply on all questions about spots, security etc...

[tomba2247]

What a nice and long set and I can see them all thx

[rutger330]

great to hear MR tomba specialy for you I uploaded via Imageshack

glad you like them as well

[tomba2247]

I am glad you did!!!

[Mick Janssens]

What an amazing report Rutger!

[The Traveller]

Nice Info and great report!

[Europarad]

Great photo's Rutger.
Nice to see you had a great time.

greets Eric.

[Jlund]

Fantastic report Rutger. I have a couple of questions for you about the Finkenwerder spotting positions. Do you have some google coordinates for the RW 23 harbor spotting tower, and is it open for the public or can we risk beeing chased away by the local police?
I'm going there tomorrow Monday, so maybe you won't see this before then, but then I know for future reference.
BTW. How many mm are needed for the RW23 shots, will a 300mm be enough?


Greetings from Denmark

Jlund

[rutger330]

Jlund,

thanks for your question...
I will post it on this topic because it maybe usefull for some other people as wel...

first off all the coordinates of the parking position for this place is:

53°32'30.79"N
9°51'26.95"E

there will be a small round about where you can park your car at...
on the left you will see a big red round tower with stairs you are allowed to get in there from that spot you have an great over view over finkenwerder
only if that runway is in use else you can drive to the offical position at RW05

coordinates for position RW05 are:

53°31'51.73"N
9°49'52.31"O

there was no police at all when we were there...

and about the mm, I got a beluga landing at RW23 with about 92MM (picture 81)
and the Air china A321 (picture 83) I made with 170mm so you will be fine there with 300mm please note the heatwaves offcourse...

for the RW05 spot 300mm is also fine

here a little map for spot at RW23:



red= driving
blue= parking
yellow= walking

I heard that the Orange A320 from EZY should do a rejected take off test tomorrow!!

so I hope you get some nice shots