On the left side of the video is the missed approach to runway 33, on the right side is the successful landing about 12 minutes later. The plane is the same distance from the camera in the two views. Following this is the aborted landing with exaggerated contrast to show exactly when the engines are throttled up. I don't know why the landing was aborted, but there was a gusty north-easterly crosswind that day and the plane clearly rocks a bit. The plane also looks to be quite a bit higher on the aborted landing. Anyway, from the moment thrust was re-applied everything went perfectly.
Birmingham! This shows a BMI (British Midland) A319 (G-DBCG) Land and Takeoff at Birmingham International Airport (BHX/EGBB). Support has been brilliant recently, thanks guys!
Back to the normal pattern now, so every other day. Incase you missed it, I uploaded yesterday because It was Cphspotting's birthday and he requested a video, and he deserved one.
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Anyway, this video shows an Air France Airbus A318 at Birmingham Airport, BHX/EGBB. I beleive this aircraft is reasonably rare at Birmingham, I know AF fly there frequently but I dont remember them using this Aircraft. Maybe any local BHX spotters could drop a comment with some info....:)
The runway at Birmingham Airport (BHX) can be a thing of beauty when seen from some angles - more like a sculpture than a piece of civil engineering. One effect of its sensuous curves is the accidental provision of something resembling the ski-jumps used on aircraft carriers by Harrier jump jets and the like to help push the planes into the sky. Smaller jet airliners, at any rate, seem to time their takeoff perfectly on runway 15 to benefit from this, as shown in the video. It would be great to hear from any pilots whether this actually is intentional.
