QF A380 - YSSY Arrival Info - Sun 21 Sep
 

The Qantas A380 will leave the Airbus factory midnight on Friday , central European summer time , and touch down in Sydney on Sunday September 21 approx 0900 AEST.

Will update with flight number when I get it.

Thanks for the info Gerald. :)

So I'm guessing most folks will be out there by around 7am? Let's hope this time there won't be the parking/traffic problems that occured for SQ's first commercial flight. :)

oh no no no haha.... im going to be out there earlier.:p

I'm told it will be calling itself "Qantas 6008"

touch down between 0855 and 0900
 

there might be a couple of low laps of the harbour from 0830... maybe;)

anyway i gotta go get ready to welcome it to SIN, and familiarize myself with it. see you in hangar 96:cool:

From the Singapore Changai Airport Flight Information Board .......

QF6008 is confirmed as the flight number.

The Arrivals Board
http://www.16right.com/MessageBoard/...QF A380 01.jpg

The Departures Board
http://www.16right.com/MessageBoard/...QF A380 02.jpg

It has just arrived......18.45 local time.

SYD Arrivals has QF6008 arriving 09:30am

Route info: DCT ANITO B470 PKP L895 TATAN/M085F390 L895 SAPDA A585 PD
T21 LEC J141 PKS H319 TARAL Y59 SY DCT
ALT = YMML
ETD WSSS: 1500z (11pm local / 1am SYD)
FL: 370
Cruising speed: M 0.85
Flight time = 06:51

So, out of WSSS @ 11pm (1am SYD). 6:51 FT. Could arrive any time after 8am, probably around 8:15 to 8:20am if it actually gets out on time.

Excluding any rumoured flyovers of course!

Indeed. I just edited my post and brought the arrival forward to the earliest possible time assuming a straight up run out of WSSS. I don't want to get blamed for people being late!!

You're right, I reckon it might do a flyover or two...

As mentioned, arrived SIN 20R at 1845 hrs local time, following a Swiss A343.

http://www.tungsten.per.sg/images/pl...-web-small.jpg

-OQA was airborne outta SIN right on 2320.

Taken from Sydneyairport site:
QF6008 Toulouse 21/09/2008
09:30am 21/09/2008
09:30am -na-

My guess is there will be a fly over of some sought....probably media purposes and with the weather looking good out west...

Oh well, off the see her arrive..

She is currently being heard in cruise on the live ATC satellite audio feed

To listen click the Australian ATC - Satellite feed at this URL:
http://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php...ternational-oc

Or put this URL directly into WinAMP:
http://74.200.85.149:80/au_sat

Cheers,
Mark

Just flew pass Parramatta area and turn right to do the flyover of the harbour.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/

anyone wanting to view the video of her takeoff from TLS, its in the video section.

Surprise!
 

Yes - I was just taking the dog for a walk 'before' it arrived and saw it cross Cockatoo Island at about 2500 feet on a heading of about 140 degrees at 08.15.

By the way, what's the reason for the sixty zero eight flight number?

She just flew over Balmain heading west

Just lining up for final approach on 16R - cameras ready everyone!

Who will be the first to post a photo?

Just watched it on Channel 7...arrived @ 9.00am.

http://i38.tinypic.com/35dayx2.jpg

two for the price of one...

There she is:

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/n...ASep213600.jpg

Here is one of the latest addition to the QF fleet on final approach:

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6363064

Cheers
Mark

I reckon it looked much better than the Singapore Airlines one. Here are my 2.

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6363067

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.p...6363065&nseq=1

PS. Krzysztof, congratulations on your 200th photo in the JP.net database. My 200th was the A380 too;) We had the same plan haha.

Tim

Hi Mark

Terrific shot and I'm wondering where you took it from and the equipment you used ?

I'm travelling to Sydney in two weeks and plan to spend a few days spotting and hopefully fill in many empty spaces in my photo albums.

Cheers

Bob

Thanks Bobby. I was parked just inside the gate on Qantas Drive. You can see thi location on the following site:

http://www.spotterswiki.com/index.ph...port_(SYD/YSSY)

I was using a Canon 450D with a 70-200mm 4L IS lens

Cheers
Mark

Here's my contribution.

Nikon D300, AFs24-70 lens, 400 ISO, taken from grass carpark Qantas Drive

http://www.castleimages.helpwise.com...0/_3021838.jpg

Steve

ooh that is a FANTASTIC shot Steve!

It was a good turn out at Qantas drive, here are two of mine.

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=2130165

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=2130168

How did you get your photo on there so quick, mine are 5000th in the queue:o

http://www.shakesbeare.com/gallery/d...2/IMG_2114.JPG http://www.shakesbeare.com/gallery/d...2/IMG_2117.JPG http://www.shakesbeare.com/gallery/d...2/IMG_2121.JPG http://www.shakesbeare.com/gallery/d...2/IMG_2161.JPG

Great to see plenty of people out for the arrival of the first Qantas A380.

http://www.16right.com/cpg143/albums...-09-21_059.jpg

http://www.16right.com/cpg143/albums...-09-21_065.jpg

http://www.16right.com/cpg143/albums...-09-21_095.jpg

http://www.16right.com/cpg143/albums...-09-21_097.jpg

http://www.16right.com/cpg143/albums...-09-21_100.jpg

http://www.16right.com/cpg143/albums...-09-21_113.jpg

http://www.16right.com/cpg143/albums...-09-21_114.jpg

Video - 38.4MB
 

My very rough video of OQA ("Qantas sixty zero eight") crossing the Parramatta River on final to RWY 16R:
http://www.argystar.com/argystar/002.MOV

Sorry for the poor quality - will have to practise a bit more to make these better given my [once filming] fixed zoom fixed focus camera!

The quicktime video needs to be viewed as small as possible to make up for the graininess. If you do that you'll be rewarded with what are almost distrails in its own vapour clouds off the back of the wings.

Grahame, were you one of the guys who jumped out of the patrol car in the fluro vest and ran up the mound? It was quite funny to see from Qantas Drive.

Not me Carl, no fluro vest, I was parked in the canal side reserve just off Qantas Drive with the other 50 cars. I did take a couple of shots off my ladder on the grass mound to the east, and then around near the hanger the A380 was towed to.

Good spot by the looks of it, where exactly is it?

Carl, Go to www.16Right.com then Spotting from the Menu and Qantas Drive. The grass mound is just east along Qantas Drive in the first photograph.

Looks like a lot of us were up at Qantas Dr. Really happy with the 16R landing. You've seen all these before, but I thought I'd share...

Credit to my Dad for most of these. I was shooting video while he was taking photos. A couple of the shots here were taken from my video camera.

http://www.eurofordclub.com/gallery/...serialNumber=1

http://www.eurofordclub.com/gallery/...serialNumber=1

http://www.eurofordclub.com/gallery/...serialNumber=1

http://www.eurofordclub.com/gallery/...serialNumber=1

http://www.eurofordclub.com/gallery/...serialNumber=1

http://www.eurofordclub.com/gallery/...serialNumber=1

Welcome VH-OQA, Qantas Sixty-oh-eight.

Dan