So I'm enjoying some free time back home in my hometown of Mayaguez, PR. It's 3 AM and I can't sleep. No one wants to go drink and i don't want to fall asleep watching reruns of "Miami Vice". So, I hop into my car and decide to head to Ponce (PSE) (1hr 10 min. drive) to watch Jetblue 739and CO336 arrive from JFK and EWR respectively both around 4:30 AM!!! Just for the record, PSE has become my favorite spotting airport in PR. It has a completely unobstructed view of the runways, taxiways and hangar from all sides. So I brought my camera and snapped away. SInce I was already there i decided to wait til the outbound flights to JFK/EWR departed each around 6AM. I must say it was a spectacular take/off, especially from that short 6900 ft. runway. From my estimation, both CO 738 and B6's A320 rotated less than 5500 ft down the runway centerline. I'm sure the pleasant 68 deg. temperatures helped that as well as what appeared to be a relatively light load of pax. Also, i noticed that despite Easterly winds, both A/C landed on runway 30 but took off from runway 12. Is this because of insufficient space to backtrack on 12? That's what I figured anyway. Finally, and believe me this is no joke, can my spontaneuous "nocturnal" spotting be construed as sign of mild crazyness of amd I just a fairly normal enthusiast?


Cheers,
-Vik-