Another day in paradise (aka Kirkwall Airport)

Come fly with BE

Sorry that I have not been opn here for a while.  I have been away to the snow for over a week to my favourite place on the planet.  Is it St Moritz, the Alps, the Himalayas, nope its Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland.

We set off from Orkney on the 4th of April with the promise of snow on the forecast.  We arrived late on the friday night and woke up to this.

As our caravan is rated to -30 it was not a problem, and even better here is our view, admittedly slightly magnified but still our view.

So what has all this to do with an aviation blog I hear you ask (or not).  Sadly the day after we arrived alight aircraft on its way to Wick crashed killing the pilot less than 1km from this picture necessitating a huge mountain rescue search involving ground search and helicopters.

A few nights later about 11pm the entire world started shaking and I stepped outside to find out what on earth was happening and saw 2 chinooks flying at extreme low level prior to landing at Glenmore Lodge.

Sadly I did not have my camera andthe next day when they were doing extreme low flying I had gone into Aviemore for something and missed it all.

Anyway back to Kirkwall, after completing my first aid course at Orkney College, I returned to work on wednesday morning and saw this, the first Saab 340B in Flybe livery.  I looked on airliners.net to see if it was there, it was, but from a distance, so here is a close up.

Then Northern Aviation came in flying for Gama, who operate the air ambulance contract, in G-ONAL which is a very pretty BE200.

Thats all for now, my new camera arrives tomorrow and hopefully will provide better results than at present.. I was going to buy a DSLR but after a lot of research went for the new Fuji S8100fd.  Will it improve my photography? time will tell.

Thanks for reading and have a good weekend

Neil