How pilots communicate with air traffic control

Also check these links below

http://flygspectrum.blogspot.se/2014/11/md-81.html

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http://flygspectrum.blogspot.se/2015/01/instrument-landing-system-och.html

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The Fascination of Flight and Aviation

Airplanes, Airports  Flights and Planespotting.

 Everyone have always something that  delights the fascination  of his/hers .

It could  be almost anything between  the earth and the sky.

Between  the ground of mother Earth and the sky, we have the atmosphere that we used to call the air that we breathe, and that is also in the air we are travelling in with planes.  In the air there you also find some intresting Things like the  weather, meteorological phenonomens and airplanes and birds and flying  bugs or insects  for instance.

All these things can be to some delight.

And you can also be a professional in these, or you can also develop a notable intrest, like a hobby of yours. Man is fantastic.

To mankind there always has been some kind of fascination in aviation and airplanes.

And in the world of aviation there are a lot of varietys of these specialized hobbies.

Some get kicks out of scalemodelling, history of flight and historical airplanes and even airports.

Well, its a funny world indeed.

Lately there has come a new  "thing" to aviation- hobbies, that is "planespotting".

 To me its seems more to be like the birdlovers do with birdspotting....

Now, I don´t know anything about this sport or hobby, but I think its is a very perculiar type of "hobby" nowadays.

People from all the world travel from all over the world to watch planes,  filming taking pictures,  mostly civilian airliners of all brands and types. And they are specialists in the coloring and even  to the shapes of the design in the coloring of the planes that they see. Even the regnumbers of these planes.

Well, how much close to birdspotting can you be?

I would´t be surprised, if you one day will find a group that collect the autographs of the crewes too?

In Denmark, at the airport  Kastrup in Copenhagen they even built a restaurant at the end of the runway to still the needs of these planespotters... It is called "Flyg-grillen".

Well ,we that are, or once have been  into the business of aviation of some kind, probably  have some sort of thoughts to their "hobby" . It´s just funny to see how peoples fascination of airplanes and aviation are. Sometimes it is just a little bit crazy too I think,

Check these links below.

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https://www.cph.dk/en/

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.http://www.spotterguide.net/index.php/planespotting/europe/denmark/copenhagen-cph-ekch/

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PlaneSpotting Kastrup EKCH 

INSANE PLANESPOTTING! Maho Beach Saint Maarten Princess Juliana Int'l Airport - HD!

 

Everyone has their own hobbies, but to me this "hobby" is strange and "funny" and even dangerous in a way, I think.

Goodyear Corsair FG-1D 

in HD 

Don´t forget to adjust your watch to Wintertime 

Hurricane-Storm Patricia

 Stormwarning issued!

Lena Horne

 

Click on the links below. they are updating all the time!

From National Geographic:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151023-patricia-hurricane-strongest-history-weather-atmosphere/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20151023news-patricia&utm_campaign=Content&sf14484133=1

From SMHI Sweden

http://www.smhi.se/bloggar/vaderleken/2015/10/23/rekordstark-kategori-5-orkan-mot-mexiko/

  From CNN:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/23/americas/hurricane-patricia/

From The Weather Channel:

 

http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-patricia-mexico-coast 

Aviation and humor

(pics from the net)

IFR Cloud Surfing - Racing Storms - DA42 - TwinStar G1000 - ATC audio (HD)

This is a really cool kite, and watch the clouds

in HD.

2 Corsairs and 4 P-51 Mustangs Warbirds Over Monroe 2013 Saturday

Six Beauties in HD !

The German Luftwaffe-aces WW II

WWII Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe

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  In my Blogg FlygSpectum you will find some of the greatest Aces in WWI II that flew for The Allies. Check older Items.

But, there were  also great aces that flew for Germany, don´t forget that.

They are not very often mentioned in  the Flighthistory for some resons, often political, maybe?

 Have in mind that Germany was in war under a dictatorship lead by Adolf Hitler and his Naziparty.

I will not go into questions in how this political lunacy became real and ended with a World War that finally was won by the Allies. There are tons of books to read , films to study about this subject instead.

But as the German Wehrmacht (The Air Force, The Army and The Navy) was under direct command under Adolf Hitler and his nazis they also became a tool for his struggle to become "The Third Reich". Tools like The Waffen-SS and Gestapo kept the German people and soldiers in an irongrip.

One can always discuss how many of these soldiers were nazis, and how many of them just did their duty to their "Fatherland"..?

   At the beginning of the end if the war when the victories of the allied troops became overwhelming, there is no doubt that more and more of the Generals of The Wermacht realized that this enemy he was forced to fight against,  was in fact too powerfull to be defeated. Some pilots could even sense that already in the beginning of the war.

In the Luftwaffe I´m sure that both pilots and senior officers and ace-pilots saw this, but were given no or very little  response of the higher commands in the Naziparty or Hitler himself, what so ever, to make some clever changes to do so, albeit they had skills and the technologies for new airplanes and weapons. But The German Luftwaffe had aces too.

A Good and Intresting film, and gives you some aspects of WW II and The German pilots that you seldom hear.

(There somethings wrong with the sound in the film; sometimes and occationally it drops in speed, just for a short time, there is nothing wrong with your computer)

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(HD)

 

Nazi Pilots Reflect On Last Days Of The War

Hawker Typhoon / Tempest - Pierre Clostermann

(HD)

Typhoon pilot Albie Götze 

(HD)

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  Hawker Tempest

 

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Typhoon/Tempest

Pierre Clostermann

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Clostermann

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(HD)

Interview with PC in French 

  I´m not that good in French, but what can undestand, he talks about the time he flew in WW II, and at the beginning of the end of the war every combatpilot was tired, on both sides, and became more and more scared to go on further missions.

- After 25 or 43 missions ; you say "Never again " !

-"And it doesent matter if your a pilot from Australia, Russia, Poland, England, France or the Luftwaffe youré never get those experieces of combat as we got in the WW II".

- "But till the end you get scared and tired...espescially if you once have seen an explosion from your cockpit of a granade just behind you and experienced your marvelous luck that you didn´t got killed. 

-"Even if your confidence in fighting is high, and you know your skills, You hated it as the pest, but when you´re into the fight, it was like a drug and you flew as an addict to this drug......"

He speaks very fast too, but he also talks about how close they flew in combat, and in fact that, 

-"Sometimes you could actually see, and even wave to the enemy pilot..."

That´s a little bit that I understand of his french.

 

Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot ( James Stewart )

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Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot,

Major General,

and 

  one of the greatest

Movie actor from

Hollywood ever!

RIP Mr Stewart.

Check the links below 

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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart

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362nd Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolts over Germany in Color -- New Edition

(HD)

 P-47 Thunderbolts over Germany

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Check the grey link below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_P-47_Thunderbolt 

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Lightning P38 & Corsair Display , La Ferte Alais , 19 may 2013

Lightning P38 & Corsair F 4U. Display , La Ferte Alais , 19 may 2013 

(HD)

XH558 Vulcan with The Reds one last time - 'Feel the Pride' / Cirrocumulus clouds

Southport Air Show - XH558 with The Red Arrows one last time - 'Feel the Pride' (HD)

 Cirrocumulus

 Cc

 High Altocumulus and distant Cc

Karlskrona Sweden

2015 Oct 3rd

(Photos: R Jedemark)

These are very Beautiful clouds and often very shortlived..

For more info check the link below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrocumulus_cloud 

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Sopwith Camel and Spitfire flying in formation

(HD)

Two Classics together!

 

The Cloudpictures in the earlier article

was indeed a little difficult....

It was high clouds, mostly Cirrocumulus, 

these clouds are very beautiful and not very often to be seen.

Their shape are also very quickly changing. 

So you might see both cirrus and cs at the same time.

Unusual is that they stay for a long period of time in the sky too.

Sometimes they resolves into cirrus and somtimes into cs. 

You can for sure know that at this level that they are to be seen, there is strong turbulence and strong winds.

Flying in these will be like a ride very fast on a big washing-board. For all safety, both for the plane and passengers you avoid them if you can. Thats why you do not notice any contrails either in the pictures, even if those pictures are taken at a point in the sky were it use to be an ordinary flight corridor.

 

 

Clouds, their form and base / Ride in a Glider

Time for a Meteorology Class?

Let´s start with an easy Cloud defenition, shall we?

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Defenition I :

The Hight of the Cloudbase

Low level

Medium level

High level

Defenition II :

The Form of the Clouds

Stratus 

Cumulus

Nimbo  (containing Waterdropplets of some kind depending on the temperature)

and  also combinations of these,

Stratocumulis, (Sc) Nimbostratus (Ns) or Cumulonimbo (Cb)

Remark that all these types sometimes can occur at the same time, and that has mostly to do with the atmospheric, upper winds and moisture conditions or frontalsystems. 

Check these clouds out, what kind are they?

Click on the pics.

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Karlskrona Sweden

2015 Oct 3rd

Photos: R Jedemark 

 

Take a Ride in a Glider! 

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Boeing 737 landing in The Bahamas. Cockpit view with ATC audio

(HD)

 

Check all these  beatutiful layers of clouds..

This is a pilots work enviroment !

A pilot has many professionals to rely on during a flight, both before and in the air on route.

If you want to make your work experience better you should try to have a good work environment around you.

Some of these pros are used to be called "the pilot´s best friends" can you guess who those pros and experts are?

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Crepuscular rays and two popular Meteorologists visiting Karlskrona

Crepuscular rays

 Photo: by R Jedemark  in Palma  de Mallorca , Spain (Cumulus that are about to lose "power"  and collapse in late afternoon)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Crepuscular rays /krɨˈpʌskjʉlər/ (also known as sunbeams, Sun rays or God rays) in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight, and their apparent convergence is a perspective effect (similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance).

The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight.

Two Popular Meteorologists from SMHI in Malmö visiting a local Radiostation in Karlskrona Sweden (Radio Blekinge P4)

 

Mats Andersson and Anna Krahner from The Swedish

Meteorological and  Hydrological Institute in Malmö

 

Weather Forcast for South of Sweden

 

Do you think it will clear up in the afternoon?

Altocumulus Floccus (3)

over Karlskrona in September

Anna Krahner

 

Airpressure records from DMI 1st of October 2015

 

 Mats, Anna and Håkan Karlsson Karlskrona a flighthistorian and a very famus airplane-modeller. (Photo Radio Blekinge)

Mats and Anna was forcasting the weather for the afternoon and tomorrow directly to their listeners with reporter Lina Nilsson.

 

 

- Well, the forcast for this day was almost correct..

The wind as usual in Karlskrona, windy.

Temperature moderate 15-17 degrees

But sparesome with sunshine in the sky though.

Stratus from the morning became mostly stratocumulus instead, that kept coming from the inland...  NorthWesterly wind.

 Smiles and sunshine from my Friends and Sunbeams on the

ground, and smalltalks with a lots of curious people instead.

An unusual  high highpressure was notably for Mats and Anna today, not just because of the crowd that visited them, but also for in one of these days we passed a highpressure record at 1041 Hpa in south of Sweden.

  

Photos: R Jedemark.