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Old 19th April 2014, 10:47 AM
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I thought I would give the Rydges Hotel new observation deck a go, so I headed out yesterday after lunch for 3 hours of shooting between 2pm and 5pm. If you park in the Airport Car Park, Rydges will validate your parking ticket for 50% off, and it is only a very short walk to the hotel.

Just checkin with reception and pay your $10, they will give you a card for a free coffee at the cafe/bar, and escort you to the elevator and up to the Dreamliner Room and observation deck. There are toilets as you exit the elevator, and the Dreamliner room is about 15x5Mtr with windows looking out over the airport. The outside deck is small, there were eight of us there yesterday and that's about the max for shooting, but it has an exceptional view of the airport, particularly 16R/34L operations. You can shoot final approaches to 16R with the city as a background, shoot the 16R touchdown area, or shoot right down the bay for 16R departures. There is a clear view to the cargo and Qantas apron areas. You could also probably shoot Runway 25 Arrivals through to just past the Runway 25 intersection.

Runway 34L was operational initially, then they changed to 16R. Using Google earth, the distance from the observation deck to the centreline of Runway16R is approx 536Mtr, and to the 16R/25 intersection just over 1Km.

Here is a sample of the images you can shoot from this location, I was using the D300 with a Nikon ED AF-S VR 70-200mm f/2.8 G fitted with a AF-1 Teleconverter TC-20E 2X giving an effective full frame zoom range of 210-600mm.























The aircraft range at this point is approx 1.16Km




The aircraft range at this point is approx 1.2Km





More images from the day

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Old 19th April 2014, 07:47 PM
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Wonderful stuff indeed Grahame! You've sold me. ;-))
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Old 19th April 2014, 08:11 PM
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Based on the above photos this looks like it has a better vantage point than the old deck
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Old 20th April 2014, 02:34 PM
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Just uploaded a short video shot from the Rydges Hotel Sydney Airport Observation Deck.

60 Seconds at Sydney 20140418
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Very nice Grahame.Thanks for uploading it.
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Old 2nd May 2014, 10:35 PM
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I received a very nice Twitter Favorite for my Jetstar VH-VKB B787 Dreamliner image taken from the Rydges Hotel rooftop.

The favorite was from the Write Brothers National Memorial, the site of the first powered flight by Orville & Wilbur Wright
on December 17th 1903 - where their dreams took to the air.




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Great photo's as always.
The Atlas Air 747 and Singapore Airlines 777 pilots are hoons doing burnouts on takeoff. (just pretend, OK).
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Interesting how your images can appear on other sites and Apps, without your permission, without attribution, and with the copyright removed from the image.

On request, the image was removed very quickly by Aircraft Retweet - Thank You

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Great photos Grahame. Not so sure on the Wright thing though...always been a Pearse proponent.
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A great collection of photos there Grahame.
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