Thak you so much, airliner371 and usflyguy, for your kind and speedy replies to my query.
Jump to postGreetings to all! May I pose a question here, please? Which of the main three New York area airports that Southwest serves has the greatest presence by Southwest? <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym>, <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA ...
Jump to postCongratulations on your purchase - enjoy getting used to your camera and taking pictures!
Jump to postYou will not go wrong with a Canon 40D which is a great camera. Good luck with whatever you choose. The Tamron 70-200 stabilised lens is also said to be very good if you can stretch that far with your budget.
Whatever you get just take plenty of pictures and not just of aeroplanes!
Must be Dublin as it is in the plural. Cork has only one airbridge thanks to the Dublin Airport crowd. All this non stop boasting about Dublin Airport. Dublin Airport can be beautified as much as you like to cod the Yanks but one thing remains the same - you cant make a silk purse out of a sow's ear...
Jump to postWow, this is one fascinating thread on Dublin aviation and as usual there is not one mention on the busy summer Cork Airport has enjoyed since June. For example, for the first time since 2008 Cork Airport had an increase in passengers numbers for the calendar month of June with numbers up 1.8%. Yes,...
Jump to postPallets, It is sad to hear the news about your dear friend, Goncalo, and his fatal ultralight crash today. May he rest in peace along with the poor pilot, Pedro. Goncalo has some lovely photos on airliners for us all to enjoy of Lisbon and the Azores. Let us hope that Goncalo and Pedro are now in he...
Jump to postIf those prices are anywhere near accurate Canon are living big time in cloud cuckoo land! £3000 to be able to take 300 mm to 400 mm aeroplane photos? Ha! Mental to the point of insanity!
Jump to postCongratulations to your little boy, it is a great photo. I only wish there were some Malev 737s that he could photo as well. What a pity.
Jump to postHello everyone and greetings from Cork, Ireland. During last autumn and with your advice I opted for the Canon 70-200 mm f4. This lens is great and I am enjoying using it very much and at Christmas time I received a very kind present of the 1.4 mk III teleconverter which is great and there is little...
Jump to postVery well done, Carlos, you have done a lot of work there and I salute your efforts. I do not speak any Portuguese but we are lucky to have a pal from Brazil whom is living in the Cork area and I will enjoy asking for our friend's help with the translating as I should really like one day to visit yo...
Jump to postThank you for the reply, KiwiRob. My camera body is the Canon 40D. Up to now I have been too nervous to even try attaching the Sigma teleconverter to the 70-200 f4 but I will try it now on the next fine day and see what happens. If it works out it will help greatly with light aircraft and helicopter...
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May I ask if my Sigma 1.4x teleconverter can be used with my newly acquired Canon 70-200 f4 L lens.
Thanks and greetings from Cork.
Thanks for all the advice, lads. Okay, I will not use a filter per se but we do indeed get a lot of rain here in Cork so I guess I had better get some kind of protection filter for the many rainy days ahead for the next four or five months - other than that though the decent size lens hood can do th...
Jump to postI have my new Canon 70-200 L f4 for a few weeks now though the weather has been very poor here in Cork for trying it out in the field. Took it up last Sunday but the weather was hovering at around CATII or just below for much of the day at Cork so that was not much good! The only photos I have taken...
Jump to postHi there, all! Well, I was in the UK over the weekend and I am now the pround owner of a Canon 70-200 f4! I cant wait for the opportunity to use it in the field at the weekend, hopefully. I am looking forward to some brighter, sharper photos and hopefully I will not be disappointed. For now the <acr...
Jump to postWhere are you flying to in Ireland? Cork is now becoming mainly a summer airport and this year there have been some very interesting airliner visits like Air Italy and El Al 767 on charters. There has also been a good selection of Classic 737s, ie, 737-300 and 737-400s, Air Italy, Tailwind, Small Pl...
Jump to postThank you, RonS and SNATH, for your kind and informative replies. At present here in Cork I use the Sigma 50-150 f2.8 and the Sigma 1.4 teleconverter on a Canon 40D body. The Sigma 50-150 f2.8 is nice and fast but try as I might it can be a tough instrument to work with for photos and I am sometimes...
Jump to postAny one care to comment on how well the Canon 1.4 extender series Mk I works with the Canon 70-200 f4 L? There seems to such a high price difference between the second hand version sof the Marks I & <acronym title="Business Air (United Kingdom)">II</acronym>. Also, if I may ask, please, how well...
Jump to postIt is fantastic. Who could have believed our hobby of watching & listening to aeroplanes could have so developed to this new fabulous level. Top marks.
Jump to postThis good news for Knock Airport will be a wake-up call for Cork Airport to have North Atlantic flights of it's own and it must come sooner or later as the catchment area around Cork is so much greater than both Knock's and Shannon's. Let us hope the people at Cork Airport will have some resolve and...
Jump to postDutchjet, If the Irish Government and the Americans are ever allowed by the EU to agree a little side deal which will abolish the Shannon Stopover etc between Ireland and the USA before a more general Europe wide Open Skies deal is signed off how do you feel about Cork Airport's chances of securing ...
Jump to postBeats me why Cork Airport has so far not been able to attract any traffic from the U.S. East Coast to Cork. The new €200 million terminal is opening up for business at Cork on 1st August and with such a fabulous new facility you would think that Cork could now vie with Dublin and Shannon for a slice...
Jump to postUp to 4 <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> 757s fly from Newark to Ireland everyday and stop off at <acronym title="Shannon (SNN / EINN), Ireland">SNN</acronym>, <acronym title="Dublin (- Collinstown) (DUB / EIDW), Ireland">DUB</acronym> and Belfast. That is a lot of capacity b...
Jump to postMAH4546, Have you any opinion on what the chances might be in a post Open Skies situation of a service between New York and Cork which is the major centre of population along the south coast of Ireland? If you consider that Continental are currently sending no less that three Boeing 757s across the ...
Jump to postThank you for the update, Semsem. Hopefully, at a point in the future it may be possible to do just that - arrive in <acronym title="Geneva - International (Cointrin) (GVA / LSGG), Switzerland">GVA</acronym> from Cork and head to Lyon on the train. It sure would help to make things work out well! Oh...
Jump to postGuess it is a coincident but Lyon is very much a topic that interests me too in recent times. How is the <acronym title="Aer Lingus (Ireland)">EI</acronym> <acronym title="Dublin (- Collinstown) (DUB / EIDW), Ireland">DUB</acronym>-<acronym title="Lyons - St. Exupery (Satolas) (LYS / LFLL), France">...
Jump to postMy wife and I along with some friends travelled with Malev from Cork to Budapest last October. Excellent service on an excellent aircraft, 737-600. Food good and friendly crew. Top marks. Three hour flight between Cork and Budapest. Great flight.
Jump to postAn 88 seater Q400 would work very well. Good for thinner routes in the same way as JetBlue are going after newer markets with the ERJ 190. It may be the way things are going with fuel prices going through the roof. Think they should definitely go for it. Much lower operating costs on offer?
Jump to postThe new Cork Airport terminal is due to open on 10th May, 2006.
Jump to postIf this is true, it is truly outstanding news. Only one stop from Cork, Barcelona and on to San Jose.
This is good news.
Would the A340-500s if not the A340-600s get to Los Angeles off the present runway 10/28 at Dublin and how far to the east could a -500 go?
Because of the relatively short runway at Dublin guess we could always have an eastbound snn stopover!
Only joking!
Why not come and visit Cork Airport instead. Much nicer place to visit and at least there is a lot of line traffic around for you to see.
Up the Rebels!
Great photos you have there all right. It is great that the Cork - Belfast performs so well. Air Southwest and Jetmagic and to a less extent British European were the pathfinders for such a steady reginal route. Fog and low cloud is something that you just have to get used to at Cork. At times it ca...
Jump to postWell, yes, sure there is profit but what does easyJet want exactly from a route as it is certainly unclear at the moment. What do they want to be? A sort of high fares airlines like <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> or dare I suggest it is there a perception at easyland that somehow Iris...
Jump to postJust beats me why EZY would want to quit Knock and Cork then with load factors like the above? Is Cork and Knock really going to be sacraficed because of a poorly performing snn Gatwick service. If so, easyJet is doing a great dis-service to her customers at Cork and Knock as well as her own shareho...
Jump to postIt will be an interesting aeroplane to watch as she goes through her development and into regular daily operation. It is no 757 replacement though as the range is much less and it is hard to see much interest from European charter airlines as there is just too little range for a westerly long haul f...
Jump to postWell, Cork Airport was mad busy today around 11 am when I arrived with three Futuras, a pair of <acronym title="Aer Lingus (Ireland)">EI</acronym>, JKK, <acronym title="Ryanair (Ireland)">FR</acronym> and <acronym title="Aer Arann Express (Ireland)">RE</acronym> all arriving within about 30 to 40 mi...
Jump to postIt is so enjoyable to read comments about one's own airport and what other people's experience is at Cork.
Thank you.
HanginOut, the Mrs and I were both up at Cork on the evening the Canadain Forces A310 arrived and it was good to get film of her on the camcorder. That was a super sunny evening at Cork Airport and nice evenings like that are rare enough in Cork even in summertime! We were hoping the <acronym title=...
Jump to postCan anyone comment if there is a viewing balcony at Salvador? The photos looks greats. Thank you.
Jump to postOops, sorry, I typed in Moscow by mistake. It should have been Warsaw! The local evening newspaper in Cork last evening ran a story on speculation about Ryanair starting more flights to Cork from the UK. Will believe it when I see it! A bigger worry is easyJet's intentions. No Cork, Knock or snn ser...
Jump to postCork Airport has a lot of issues which it will be forced to address as times moves on. For example, the first is to complete the new terminal and after that it is anyone's guess what to do next! Cork has a very poor weather record and the place is crying out for a CATIII ILS. The airport needs more ...
Jump to postThere will be another new transatlantic 757 service later in the year from the end of October. An Irish travel agency has been organising twice weekly charters from Cork, Ireland to New York <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acrony...
Jump to postThe Wales 737-500 is the one that visits most often in the evenings. The morning flight is more of a mixture.
Jump to postWW use a mixture of both 737-300s and 737-500s. Guess it must depend on the day, aircraft availability and the loads. Cork should be quite enjoyable for you from Thursday to Sunday. Saturday am, Sun am & Sun night are very lively. Every pm from about 7 pm to 10 pm can be entertaining too for movemen...
Jump to postIf you were forced to choose just one airport in Brazil you would like to visit where would it be? Thinking in terms of just looking at the aircraft as much as photographing them.
Thank you.
The newest budget model from JVC is reviewed to be quite a performer. Not sure exactly what the model designation is, something like D-240??? Has an eminently useful x 25 zoon lens.
Jump to postAre Onur Air banned from overflights by the countries that have banned them?
Jump to postA big salute to your Dad, Clipper 002. Often saw many Pan American flights route overhead Cork before and after their long transatlantic crossings and I am sure your Dad must have been associated with the operations of many of those flights. I hope your Dad has a long and happy retirement. Maybe he ...
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