The hotel I stayed at last night overlooks LAX runways, and as I was packing car ready to leave, I thought it was rather unusual to see a plane fly so low over the runway out to sea
So I go to one of the flight tracking websites to see if I can see the plane that basically just did a fly over, and it was Fiji Airways ( plane in photo above this screenshot ) that came in to land and then at 1200feet took off again, would love to know what happened there
FJ810 here’s a screen recording of the last 20 min or so of it’s flight path.
Anyway, so I was watching to see the plane come in again for its second try to land, and then got my 400mm out
spotted this flying roo at the far end of the runway, and noticed on the flight tracking app that my flight tonight will have a 2 hour delay and that yesterdays flight was cancelled ( so will be a full flight tonight no doubt ) but that plane there is not an A380, and QF11 is scheduled to land in about 25min, so, why not, lets hang and wait for big bertha to come in and land 
meanwhile, have a great vantage point to document some of the coming and goings, busy airport 
united 
flight au natural 
one coming one going 
looks closely at the windows, now anyone that flies Qantas and BA a lot know the crew always want all window shades up during take off and landing, and are very strict about it. In America, on American Airlines and Alaskan Airlines, they are not, and most often, when boarding the flight, the shades are all down, I just don’t get it, why would a passenger insist on a window seat and have the shades down, just missing out on some amazing views, and take off !!?? ok, rant over 🙂
traffic control 
wheels up quick on this one 
this 747 just landed, rather mysterious with no signage 
like nothing 
except for this registration number 
so of course I looked it up, belongs to an air freight company , still very sus in my book 
oh, and there’s Elon Musk in his new plane he just aquired a few months ago 
just like my arrival yesterday, that sea fog is moving in again 
love seeing this, the condensation, mist fog, displacement, whatever you call it, on the wings and engine 
not the best one 
then this thing at the catering wharehouse started blasting, took me by suprise 
one of the remaining passenger airlines still flying the 747, Lufthansa 
coming in 
yep, that fog is back for the afternoon 
and here she comes, LAX is using both runways for landing 
so lucky for me big bertha is landing on the runway closer to me 
she’s a big one 
looking good
final approach 
touch down 
so in about 11 hours it will be my turn 
looks good from here 
first on the bottom and business on top ( Emirates A380 it is the reverse ) 
taxi 
oh, and here is the Lufthansa 747, so you can compare, I so prefer the 747, especially at the bottom in the pointy end, seat 1A, best views, as it is ever so slightly a little more forward view. I really wish Qantas didn’t get rid of them and BA, Queen of the skies the 747
busy airport 
6 different airlines in the one photo.
Ok, enough of that, time to catch up with some friends before checking in for my flight tonight
