Fokker F27/50 21/12?

Kent Broadhead · #1 22nd December 2009, 12:18 PM

This has been bugging me since yesterday, approx. 1600. Could i really have seen a F27/50 tracking SW following takeoff, or did I just look at a 340B form a strange angle?

Kent

NickN · #2 22nd December 2009, 12:51 PM

Alliance had an F50 into Sydney the last few days you more than likely did see a F50.

David C · #3 22nd December 2009, 01:04 PM

You probably saw a S340 , the RXA178 from Sydney bound for Orange which departed at about 1602Hrs .... can't help with the rego though .

Dave C

Peter Agatsiotis · #4 22nd December 2009, 01:23 PM

Kent, you weren't 'seeing things'; VH-FKV was there on Sunday (at the GA outside the Hawker hangar).

My SBS log picked it up at 16:09; probably returning to Adelaide.

The Saab David noted was probably VH-OLL which I have at 16:04.

phil.l · #5 22nd December 2009, 01:38 PM

Pete do you know what time it was there on sunday,i was there in the morning didn`t see then.(VH-FKV)

Peter Agatsiotis · #6 22nd December 2009, 01:52 PM

I got there just after 3pm. Merv said it had already been in and out earlier.

My SBS log has it 8:05 to 8:20 (no heights!)
1:05pm to 1:26pm 17400 down to 13500
2:09pm to 2:27pm down to 4200 (which is when it arrived before I saw it)

So looks like the SBS didn't pick it up between 8:20 and 1:05pm

HTH
Peter

phil.l · #7 22nd December 2009, 01:53 PM

Cheers Pete.

Kent Broadhead · #8 22nd December 2009, 03:23 PM

Thanks guys. I only saw it briefly side-on ( I was in Marrickville), so only just caught the nose as it banked, but the the wingspan seemed too wide for any of the 340s or DHC8s, and then it had a low, horizontal rear control surface. Didn't see the nacelles, hence my F27/50 ref.

BTW, my first commercial flight was in an F27, and the Ansett Express F50s were much nicer than the opposition for regional flights in the 90s....

Kent

Raymond Rowe · #9 22nd December 2009, 06:20 PM

The F27 were the ultimate aircraft to fly in on short hops.Once flew from ASP-DRW just for the fun of it.

Anthony T · #10 22nd December 2009, 06:47 PM

Never got the chance to go fly on a F27, went with a scout group once in the mid '70's and went for a walk through on one, also a DC-9 with the scoutmaster who worked for Ansett.

I used to like riding about on the tugs at MEL with my dad, and raid the BA VC-10 for pommy newspapers, beer (for my dad) and chocolate bars (for me).