Boeing 727

Boeing 727
Originally uploaded by Jim Crocker

727 approaching YYZ. Don't see many of these any more.

Air Canada Busy Day

On the Saturday morning 8am flight to Vancouver. Busy ramp outside the plane. YYZ still recovering from Thursday's storm. Long line-ups in Terminal 1 and many unhappy passengers. I feel for them, thankful I'm not them....and have to say the Saturday flight was as great.

Re the Embraer - like the one in the pic - my seat mate - who had good inside info on these things - was telling me how the Embraer is very unreliable. Not a pilot fave because it's unreliable. Interesting.

Two Twins

Taking pics at the end of 05 on Saturday. Surprised when these two twins flew the approach and landed within seconds of each other on the same runway. Never seen this before and contacted Airport Watch, a group of Pearson enthusiasts who are credentialed to roam the airport vicinity with minimum hassle - and who have collectively likely see a lot of different things at Pearson. Here's response from Pete at Airport watch:

The ATC Manual of Operations allows for simultaneous landing operations assuming certain conditions are met. In this case, without actually having seen just how close these guys got on the runway, the clause that comes to mind allows a light aircraft to land even if the preceding arrival has not cleared the runway as long as he can see his traffic. I m assuming that both of these guys were light aircraft - they look like a twin Cessna & a Piper Cheyenne.

Thanks Pete.

Toronto Pearson Cargo

Volga-Kneper AN-124

Another shot of the AN-124. It's big.

Volga-Kneper Antanov 124

Got lucky on this pic. Just pulling into park when this An-124 showed up. It's a regular visitor to YYZ. First time getting a picture of it.

Next stop Frankfurt

Colourful Jazz

Got a few evening pics. Great sunset. Air Canada Jazz.