F-GFKJ @ LPPT

The freshly painted A320 celebrating Air France's 75 years, captured at Lisbon (LPPT-24/11/2008). Named Pays de Roissy CDG. Painted on the 20th November 2008 at Toulouse (LFBO).

Cloudy skies

A Cb (cumulonimbus) cloud, or mushroom cloud as called by many, on our way back from Barcelona (LEBL). This day there were plenty of these formations on the Iberian Peninsula, forcing us to deviate from them.

Here, at stand T18 Terminal 2 at Barajas (LEMD), these cumulus clouds already in great activity, will soon form a Cb. Captured same day as the pic above.

Strong Winds

During some journeys I captured several moments where we encountered strong winds at our cruising level. Here, on course to LTP VOR (La Tour du Pin) near Grenoble, France (LFLS), we were speeding at 550kts ground speed (aprox. 1018km/h), having a tail wind component of 104kts (aprox. 192km/h).

Here, on our way to Porto (LPPR), having Paris on our left side, we were with a slow ground speed of 321kts (aprox. 594km/h), due to the strong headwind of 110kts (aprox. 203km/h).

On this pic, over the Bay of Biscay on course to CHW VOR (Chartres, between Paris and Nantes) a strong corsswind coming from our left side of 150kts (aprox. 277km/h) is affecting us, creating a drift angle of about 16 degrees (the difference between our the heading and track) and also slowed us to 325kts (aprox. 600km/h).

Geneva, LSGG

At our stand, during flight preparations, this Qatar Airbus A330-200 comes to a stop by vacating runway 23 via taxiway D, showing its impressive wingspan.

As above, at our stand, I captured this ''Topswiss'' after its takeoff from runway 23, during gear retraction.

During our taxi for departure from runway 23 towards Porto (LPPR), I captured this amazing B747SP (HZ-AIJ) from Saudi Arabian Airlines.

PGA's Landing

Fokker F100 landing at Porto (LPPR) runway 35. We were at the holding point cleared to line-up and wait behind the landing sistership, on our way to Geneva (LSGG).

Here I captured this ERJ145 landing on runway 03 at Lisbon (LPPT), while we were waiting for our departure for a 45min flight to Porto (LPPR).