~*~B737-700 EasyJet EGGW - EGPH~*~

[tommchowat]

Hello chaps,
Those of you who have been following my exciting life story will know that I'm currently back home on a break from getting my PPL in Australia, so I thought I'd do a little flying here too. This is another in depth look at the systems, apologies if this bores any of you at all - it'll be my last post in a while so I thought I'd make it a big one! Apologies to all 56k users also! Enjoy chaps!

Flight: EZY 23 London Luton EGGW ----> Edinburgh EGPH 269.7NM
Equipment: Boeing 737-700
Route: EGGW RWY8,TNT,POL,RIBEL,SHAPP,MARGO,EGPH RWY 6 VIA TLA
Cruise: FL310

Zero Fuel Weight: 54800KG

ATIS EGGW: Information ZULU - WIND 068@8 TEMP -6 OVERCAST 5600 QNH 3003 VIS 1 IN SNOW ILS RWY 8 IN USE

ATIS EGPH (FREQ 131.35): Information OSCAR - WIND 070@8 TEMP -5 OVERCAST 5600 QNH 3003 VIS 1 IN SNOW ILS RWY 6 IN USE

Fully loaded flight for today
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/0e2bfecb.jpg

The route
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/fbe842dd.jpg

Starting the APU at gate 8 at EGGW
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/e134ee12.jpg

Overhead Springs to life as APU is started
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/c8d4df27.jpg

Looking over our departure - using runway 8 then cleared direct to TNT
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/6d0c262c.jpg

Pushed back
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/30d774ca.jpg

Taxiing
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/ecbde165.jpg

Takeoff page, reference speeds on the right
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/244dd2a3.jpg

View from the VC as we engage TO/GA
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/6c60556a.jpg

Rotating, gear up
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/b6898822.jpg

Passing 10,000 feet
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/57b5c242.jpg

Still climbing
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/5e7d15bb.jpg

Climb page on the FMC - climbing to FL310, 34nm till the top of the climb, target speed shown on the left
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/f73eb4ba.jpg

In the cruise - now time for a cigarette and a cup of coffee for the overworked pilot :-) (Speaking of that, does anyone know the rules for smoking in the cockpit? I know that Garuda Indonesia Airlines allows it, as I was in the cockpit of one of their A330's - is it airline rules?)
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/5ea97e84.jpg

Some cruise info for you all! In the middle you can see our top of descent, the green circle marked T/D
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/2b9c2773.jpg

Cruise page shows still 110nm to go till we descend
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/042e736b.jpg

What a beautiful office - who would rather be anywhere else?!
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/3bdca95e.jpg

Quick visit to the loo
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/4d735ab4.jpg

Descending now. Received information for Edinburgh, making straight in for an ILS approach to runway 6 with a TRANS at TLA. FMC shows our gross weight, selected landing speeds, and ILS information for the runway
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/5bf05db5.jpg

Descending into some lovely Scottish weather, passing 10,000 now
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/e5f0560f.jpg

We can see a bit - that's slightly reassuring...
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/9c8af939.jpg

On final for runway 6
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/f53e7d91.jpg

Runway visible, everything looking peachy
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/5aa0e9af.jpg

Touched down - slowing the damn thing down
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/95c8f700.jpg

What a beast!
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/db179ef9.jpg

Parked at gate 1b
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...t/8d5ff3fa.jpg

Hope you enjoyed these folks, feel free to leave a comment if you have time! :)

[davestan_ksan]

TOM!!!!!!!!

Hey there my friend, really glad you stopped by!!!!! I hope everything is going great with your PPL in AU!!! Really exciting stuff!!!!!!! One day your office will be in one of these beautiful ladies, cant wait to see you get your dream!

you can fly to Wimbleton too, pick me up some nice tennis ladies too! haha

:9 beautiful shots as always, great flight!

alright mate, safe flying and take care!!!! Hope to hear from ya soon!!!!!! All the best!

take care,
dave




www.thehungersite.com

"Im not sayin that ima change the world, but i guarantee that i will spark the brain that will change the world" -2pac

[707jet]

Another great and interesting posting by you, Tom. Great
work!!!

Thorsten
707jet

[javelin]

Welcome back Tom!

Very nize post- hard to shoot bad ones with a great look'n plane like that!!!


Take care,

Cliff

[MikeM]

That's quite a post Tom, I like all the views and details from your flight! Best of luck in your training! :D

[marcus nyberg]

just the kind of pictures i love seeing.great job

[RobertK]

Nice story, and the shot from final to runway 6 is downright awesome.
Thanks for sharing. :)

Regards,

Robert

[yv35p]

Hey Tom whats up buddy?! :D

Love this kind of posts, you did an amazing job eith the flight and the shots, thanks for sharing with us :-)...<<<Speaking of that, does anyone know the rules for smoking in the cockpit?>>> Oh man..I can only say i dont smoke, but i've smoked millions of cigarretes in the cockpit thanks to some Captains LOL...Oh! and one time we use a cigarrette's smoke to force some snake come out from the instrument panel of an Aztec haha!!..really, was my friend's pet..so, sometimes is even useful LOL

Good Luck on your training my friend, take care :-)

[FlyingKiwi]

Awesome shots Tom! :) I did almost that exact same flight yesterday, except I departed from Stansted. :)

[tommchowat]

Hey all of you chaps! Thanks alot for replying, really appreciate that you took the time to look!

Dave - Thanks alot for your kind words old boy, I'll fix you up with a nice tennis lady, I know a couple (you could probably have my mixed doubles partner, she's nice... ;))

Carlos - Hey my friend! Haha! Getting a snake out of the cockpit! Well I certainly hope I'll never have to do that!

Thanks everyone for your comments!