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These aircraft are all on approach (some visual
and some ILS)
to RWY 29 at
CYYT, St.
John's International Airport (Torbay), St.
John's, Newfoundland,
Canada. The
photos were taken from our patio while the planes were at a
point approximately 2.0 NM
(3.7 Km) from the runway threshold. I use a Canon
PowerShot G2 digital camera; mostly in CCD
RAW mode, and import the images into Adobe Photoshop. For
photos prior to June 2004, I used Adobe's "Camera
Raw and JPEG 2000 plug-in bundle" with Photoshop 7.01.
Since then, I use Photoshop CS. The
images are then exported in JPEG format for display on the Web. I use a Yaesu
VR-5000 communications receiver to monitor the crew's approach
communications with NAV
Canada's ATC
in Gander, on 133.150 MHz. I also monitor the St. John's Tower
on 120.6 MHz and Ground communications on 121.9 MHz. The ATIS
for YYT is on 128.0 MHz.
For commercial flights, I occasionally check the St. John's
Airport Arrivals
Website, or the RLM
Flight Tracker to gain information about the flight's point of origin. All times are from the
EXIF
data captured with the original G2 image and are shown in UTC
(GMT). I keep the camera's time synchronized with the NIST
time signal. Click on the thumbnails below for larger images. If
your web browser automatically re-sizes images, be sure to override this
feature so that you can see the complete detail in the full-sized photos. New pictures
are added periodically. The pictures appear in the reverse order of when
they were taken. The quality of some of these images is not as good as I
would like to have but altitude and atmospheric conditions play a big
part in determining the picture quality. Naturally, I could get much better images by driving over to the
airport to take the photographs but that would violate my purpose; that is,
to show what the planes look like as they fly past our house. Feel free to email JustUs
with your feedback. A great set of unofficial
charts for C-YYT are available, for use only with PC flight
simulators, from VATCAN
(Virtual Air Traffic Control Canada). A public database at Transport
Canada provides Canadian
aircraft registration data while U.S.
and World Aircraft Registrations are available from Landings.com. Globemaster
has information on U.S. military aircraft. Airline logos are available at
AeroSite
Airline Logos. |
