Hey everyone
I go on a trip pretty much once a month and never do a trip report, but i thought i would for this one as it was a pretty awesome trip, so this is my first ever one. I will do it over a few posts i hope you don't mind...
A Few Months back dad and myself purchased some tickets to fly to Perth on a 747-300 with Qantas from Sydney.
17th November 2008
OOL - SYD (DJ500)
Virgin Blue, 737-700 [VH-VBN]
Seat 20F
First off we arrived at Gold Coast Airport at 5 in the morning for a 6:05 departure, we got into the terminal and saw "Delayed 6:25 (due to air traffic control sydney)" next to our flight. Great the only day we didn't want a delay we got one . So we sat down at the gate waiting to board, Gold Coast airport currently has the worst viewing area of planes in the terminal as all you can see is a wall due to construction.
We finally started boarding at around 06:00 and hopped onto the plane which was VH-VBN which is the first time for me
As you can see it was a very sunny day at the Gold Coast and i was looking forward to getting away from this rain and see the sun again. Across from us Jetstar VH-VQW fully loaded and ready to go to Sydney.
So i sat down and looked around me and looked at my Live to Air controls and got a bit of a surprise.
Some poor bored individual must of decided to it would be fun to take the cover off the controls. I had a look at the one on my dads armrest and it is very difficult for the cover to fall off itself.
So it was time to take off using RWY14 like always,
so we took off flying over west tweed below us is Terry's house, the weather isn't so great,
Making a right turn over Murwillumbah, and into the clouds.
For a good 10 - 15 minutes the view out of the window was this...
Finally we were greeted with blue sky's as we continued to climb.
Once we were above these clouds it was smooth flying.
So after our very short cruise it was time for descent,
looked like Sydney was having the same weather as the Gold Coast but then again every time i go to Sydney it rains just ask Tim Bowrey and Matthew McDonald
Got a really cool effect from the clouds, the sun and the shadow of my plane.
Finals into RWY 34R
After a bit of a harder landing we were down,
