Is there a dog in SeaTac’s control tower right now? It sounds like something’s barking in the background… #ATC #LiveATC #SEA #Seattle #AvGeek

#CondorAirlines, a German airline, has painted some of their planes with this…distinctive!…livery (in various colors, but all just as stripe-tastic), and one comes to #SeaTac daily. How cool it would be to see it in person - maybe I should work from a coffee shop/library out that way, so I can step out to catch a glimpse…

#planespotting #AvGeek #Seattle

If I want to really squander my PTO and bank balance, I could fly this all-A380 round-the-world route:

LAX-SYD: Qantas
SYD-SIN: Singapore
SIN-LHR: Singapore
LHR-LAX: British Airways
(Plus SEA-LAX roundtrip on a non-A380 flight.)

#AvGeek #A380

Forget #Wordle. This is the real challenge. #Airportle #ScottsCheapFlights #Going #GoingDotCom #AvGeek #Aviation #Airport #Airports #Grenada #GRX #BGR

A-26 landing at Paine Field (KPAE). #Planespotting #warbirds #avgeek

Yes, this is real. Star Wars geeks are, well, everywhere.

#FlightRadar24 #FR24 #Squawk7700 #7700 #Order66 #Nightwatch #DoomsdayPlane #AvGeek #BoeingE4 #StarWars

This is amazing. Fort Lauderdale’s airport is shut down due to major flooding overwhelming the tarmac.

#FLL #FortLauderdale #FlightRadar24 #FR24 #AvGeek

Y'ALL. Y'ALL. http://www.lofiatc.com combines lo-fi hip-hop and air traffic control for an absolutely incredible (and geeky) listening experience. You can pick your airport and adjust the volume of the music vs. the ATC.

(Note that KPIT is generally pretty quiet. KLGA, KJFK, KATL, KSEA, KSFO, KLAX are guaranteed to be active, at least stateside. Look up the 4-letter ICAO code for your airport of choice and plug it in!)

SOOOO HAPPY.

#AvGeek #LoFiHipHop #ATC #aviation

Sorry Goose. It’s time to buzz the tower. #avgeek #Planespotting #ksea #Seattle

Boeing 787-10 (N528ZC) taxing at Boeing Field. The test pilots give a sense of just how massive the cockpit windows are. #planespotters #avgeek #aviationphotography #boeing787

This is one of my favorite photos because normally when shooting aircraft, there’s nothing around. In this shot there are people, cars, trains, utility poles, fences, trees and roads. It’s as if the Skyhawk is landing in the middle of a busy intersection.
#airshows #Planespotting #avgeek

US Navy P-8 string at Boeing Field. #Planespotting #AvGeek #USNavy

C-17 executing a Container Delivery System (CDS) drop over JBLM. #airforce #avgeek #aviationphotography

For the record, it’s 11:25pm and there are 3 cars at this viewing spot. I’m not the only one!

We’re heading into late-night rush hour. 3(!) lights in the sky. One just touched down. One’s about to land right now. A whopping 6(!) planes landing in the next 20 minutes. (We take what we can get, you see.)

#planespotting #AvGeek #PIT #KPIT #Pittsburgh

Super old picture of a B-1 blasting off from JBLM. I made this one black and white because I couldn’t get the colors to look right no matter what I did. I’ve thought about maybe just colorizing the afterburners. We’ll see. #airshow #avgeek #aviationphotography

Jetstar 787 (VH-VKL) taking off from KPAE on its delivery flight. #planespotter #planespotting #avgeek

20 planes that arrived and are waiting to go to their gates. One is now moving that has been waiting for an hour.

21 planes are lining up to take off.

ATL did a brilliant thing and set up a bypass taxiway to let flights go around the end of the runway, so they don’t have to stop traffic. Seattle could use that. (As well as a second large airport, which they’re scouting out.)

#Seattle #SeaTac #SEA #KSEA #ATL #KATL #AvGeek

SeaTac air traffic control is having a really bad night.

I can’t upload images for some reason, but there are over 20 planes queued to GO TO THEIR GATES. Some are lost, some aren’t responding to ATC’s hails, and some are blocking taxiways for planes whose gates HAVE opened.

This exchange happened earlier, right as I fired it up:

Controller - “I’m having as much fun as you are!”
Pilot - “Oh, boy…”
Controller - “Yeah, happy Monday, right?”
Pilot - “Oh, boy…”

#Seattle #SeaTac #SEA #KSEA #AvGeek

Bad night at SeaTac. Look at all the planes lined up just to get to their gates.

I tuned into the ground frequency and the first thing I heard was:
Controller - “I’m having as much fun as you are.”
Pilot - “Oh, boy…”
Controller - “Yeah, happy Monday, right?”
Pilot - “Oh, boy…”

#Seattle #SEA #KSEA #SeaTac #AvGeek #atc

President Xi Jinping’s plane when he visited Seattle back in 2015. China doesn’t have a dedicated Presidential jet. This airliner is converted to a VIP configuration whenever he travels. #planespotter #planespotting #avgeek