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PeterR
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Which Park and View is better for departures on Monday?
Could some people post pictures from each enclosure so I can see what type of photos you can get from each one?

Thanks :smile:

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Doesn't all this depend on wind direction?

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I can only help on P+V East:

Arrivals - Landing and taxi shots:

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Departures - just taxi shots:

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If your a FRIAT member is the grandstand still available to use on the monday or are you put in a park and view instead?
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Monty wrote:If your a FRIAT member is the grandstand still available to use on the monday or are you put in a park and view instead?


Yes. No. :smile:

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P+V West..
You get some of the stuff from that end of the static taxiing out past you..
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If your lens has a reach of 400mm you'll be fine, I only had the 70-300 last year and I struggled with some of the smaller stuff..
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I've only done the eastern end for departures so far. I'd love to try the other side, but it seems a little risky as some fighter pilots seem eager to demonstrate the climbing abilities of their mounts near the FRIAT grandstand (Indian SU-30s and RAF Typhoons spring to mind). Is this a common problem?

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Chrisse wrote:I've only done the eastern end for departures so far. I'd love to try the other side, but it seems a little risky as some fighter pilots seem eager to demonstrate the climbing abilities of their mounts near the FRIAT grandstand (Indian SU-30s and RAF Typhoons spring to mind). Is this a common problem?

Wasn't too much of a problem last year! Can't remember being disappointed by anything climbing ridiculously high like the Flankers did.

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Can anyone post some photos of arrivals and departures from the grandstand?

Cheers

Ben

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I'm assuming it's OK just to walk in to the P+V??

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G-CVIX wrote:I'm assuming it's OK just to walk in to the P+V??

Yeah, the parking for P&V east is on the other side of the road anyway.

TheOriginalMonty wrote:Can anyone post some photos of arrivals and departures from the grandstand?

Cheers

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Some of these may be from show days but you get the idea.

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J35 Draken wrote:Wasn't too much of a problem last year! Can't remember being disappointed by anything climbing ridiculously high like the Flankers did.


Thanks, I might just give it a try then. In 2007, it seemed the Flankers and Typhoons did a time to climb competition to me from P&V east. Then again, if the Americans are in the P&V east with their burgers again on Monday like in 2008, it's a different story entirely :cool:

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Is a 300mm good for the FRIAT stand?
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Monty wrote:Is a 300mm good for the FRIAT stand?

For takeoff shots like those above it's fine, possibly even too long! Looking through a selection of mine I was using somewhere in the 150-200mm range for most of the shots immediately in front of the stand and that's on a 1D MkII so a 1.3x crop. Obviously there are shots to be had to the left and right of the stand where you can use the extra reach of a 300mm.

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rpstewart wrote:
Monty wrote:Is a 300mm good for the FRIAT stand?

For takeoff shots like those above it's fine, possibly even too long! Looking through a selection of mine I was using somewhere in the 150-200mm range for most of the shots immediately in front of the stand and that's on a 1D MkII so a 1.3x crop. Obviously there are shots to be had to the left and right of the stand where you can use the extra reach of a 300mm.


Thanks for that, how about for the displays?
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300mm on a 400D will give you a field of view which is only slightly wider than my 400mm/1DMkII combo so you should be fine for most of the displays. The high parts will be out of reach but you'll be fine for most of the passes.

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I went to Western P&V for departure days, mainly because parking is on hardstanding, and I didn't want my new car upto its wheelarches in mud.

Got some taxi shots from that end aswell.

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FGR2 wrote:
Got some taxi shots from that end aswell.




Relatively few aircraft taxied past the Western P & V enclosure on departure day last year, almost no fighters.
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