TP131 journey begins, parked at L03 in Lisbon (LIS/LPPT)...
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Captain Carlos Rodriguez and First Officer Dany Jardim, myself in the central jumpseat and Teresa Vieira in the right jumpseat, Thank you all :P
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Checking the engine's start, while we are pushing back...
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Already taxiing, in front of us only A320: 1 Iberia, and 2 Vueling...
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Checklist...
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It's another perspective that i'm not used to.
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Funny to see the exactly same aircraft that made the debut of the TAP's A332 in Madeira, the same flight that brought me to Lisbon 3 hours ago. CS-TOE
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So we wait...
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I could expect another kind of traffic, instead an airline (SAS) that goes to Madeira every week...
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An smoothly SAS lands in the CS-TOE Airbus A332 from TAP eh eh eh
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An there she goes again to South America, this time to Brazil. Again the aircraft that debut the TAP's A332 in Madeira, and i was in the first take-off...
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Linning up for departure! Can i expect a powerful take-off as the take-off in Madeira?
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And here we go!
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Some strange color reflections to watch the landscape, Vasco da Gama bridge!
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Direct NARTA be the left! (sorry for the bad quality)
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Already in our cruise altitude heading Madeira, with the pilots setting up some details of our flight.
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As you can see the flight is the TP131 with origin in LPPT (Lisbon) and with the destination LPMA (Madeira), the date is 2008 March 16...
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A detail to the upper panel
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While flying to Madeira, i try a couple of pictures, first with the focus on the registration, putting the foreground out of focus...
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Then trying a mid-term, focusing both foreground and background...
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Porto Santo Island insight, so we are arriving :P
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Porto Santo Island detail, with the Airport visible (click for enlarge)
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The current "weather" (cloudy sky) and land (Porto Santo and Madeira)...
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Another detail of those monitors...
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After reaching ABUSU we are clear to a VOR/DME approach runway 05, turning to FUN VOR...
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Straight to FUN VOR, i guess we all are very excited!
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Madeira, Air Portugal 131 visual with the field...
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Vertical to FUN VOR we can see "Caniçal Industrial Zone"
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Just after Caniçal we have Machico City
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And here it is the beautiful and famous runway 23 from Madeira Airport, at the left (and middle) you can see the trucks from the fire department :P :P
... please go to the 2008/03/16 page to see the next sequence "http://www.photoblog.com/jorgeabreu/2008/03/16"... |
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I'm amazed. The best I ever looked.
????? · 2008-03-23: 18:01
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Great opportunity. Simply "funtastic"...
Donato Macedo · 2008-03-24: 04:00
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Indeed a great oportunity that you used the best way.
ruisousa · 2008-03-24: 05:18
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Nice.
mintra · 2008-03-26: 04:37
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Expectacular
Zita · 2008-03-27: 14:19
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