There's a lot to see if you take the time to look out the window.
While on a HNL layover I arranged for and flew on a HNL/HKO Hawaiian Airlines jumpseat. 1/8/07
Great crew, you'll find there pictures under the crew tab.
Great crew, you'll find there pictures under the crew tab.
Scenes along the way from LAX to HNL in a B-757-300
1/8/07, Aircraft 5812, N592NW, MSN 32992, mfg 6/30/03.
1/8/07, Aircraft 5812, N592NW, MSN 32992, mfg 6/30/03.
Airline pilots are often accused of never looking out the window.... Says who?
Buckle up and follow along as we approach SEA (from HNL) in a 757-300 at sunrise. 7/4/07
Views from my 1946 J-3 Cub
These three photos, taken in SEA, (11/19/05) were taken over a five minute time span. How the WX changes!
"Welcome to good old Boston, home of the bean and the cod, where the Cabots only speak with the Lodges and the Lodges speak only with God" The Boston Prayer, 1910 Holy Cross Alumni dinner.
From BOS we'll fly 3º N and 22º W (1,200 miles) to MSP to land on runway 30L in light snow. 1/18/07
Landing on 4 at LGA
Have you ever wondered what it looks like to land on runway 4 at LGA? It's only 7,001 feet long.
The pics on the right are what the captain would see from his seat as they get closer to the airport.
The pics on the left are (close) to what the captain would see if he looked out his side window at that time.
BOEING 757-200 CONFIGURATION
Gear would be down, flaps at 30º, speed brakes armed, auto brakes at medium, speed Vref+5.
but before we get into the approach...
Have you ever wondered what it looks like to land on runway 4 at LGA? It's only 7,001 feet long.
The pics on the right are what the captain would see from his seat as they get closer to the airport.
The pics on the left are (close) to what the captain would see if he looked out his side window at that time.
BOEING 757-200 CONFIGURATION
Gear would be down, flaps at 30º, speed brakes armed, auto brakes at medium, speed Vref+5.
but before we get into the approach...
Now let's take a look over here from the control towers perspective.

If you were in the LGA control tower and looking over towards where the DAL 757 above is about to land, you'd see this. There's runway 4 with the old Pan Am Hangar just beyond and Manhattan beyond that. The USAir Airbus is touching down where the 757 will momentarily. You can also see the orange/white blast fence here as well as in the top right photo too.

Hopefully you've decelerated quickly enough to turn off onto taxiway Papa, just prior to runway 13/31 as they're using that for departure today. Your FO has already called LGA Ops to tell them your on the ground and they advise that your gate is open. (Really!! This is LaGuardia.) LGA Ground will now clear you to the gate via Bravo and Zulu. Taxiing down Bravo parallel to 13/31 by taxiway Kilo you'd see this iconic NY sign. Keep your eyes open, it's tight down here with a lot of ground traffic.
Join me as I catch a ride from Saipan to Nagoya in the jump seat of a B-757

This was the end of a 12 day trip in 2008 while flying "inter-Asia" on the 757. Technically I'm supposed to layover in NGO and deadhead back to DTW tomorrow. But I've waived my rest requirements and crew sched has cleared me to jump on this afternoons 747-400 back to JFK and get home 24 hours early. At JFK I'll have 35 minutes to connect with a jetBlue A-319 to BOS. The 12-hour flight in a 1st class seat should provide sufficient rest. It's interesting what you'll do when your nose is pointed home.
Across the North Atlantic: Boston to Amsterdam in a 757-200-OW.
LGA to MSP then continuing to SEA in a 757-200.

Landing on 12L at MSP as many aircraft congregate at the de-ice pad off to our right. Although snowing most of the day MSP does a great job clearing their runways. Weather is 600 overcast, a mile and a half in snow with light winds. Picked up a little ice on the approach as seen on the wiper bolt. Yeah... this is fun.
London Gatwick (England)
Taxiing out and waiting to depart runway 26L, 8/23/08, 1100L
LGW or EGKK to KDTW
Taxiing out and waiting to depart runway 26L, 8/23/08, 1100L
LGW or EGKK to KDTW
We're so close to our OEP that we shut down our engines to conserve fuel, advise our passengers, brief our takeoff, departure and oceanic entry procedures and then ask for coffee and chocolate chip cookies to enjoy the airshow. You'll see arrivals off our left and departures off our right from our B-757-200-OW as we critique European airman. 26L has a very long displaced threshold which precluded me from getting "smoking tires" touchdown photography.

ATC gives us a ten minutes heads-up. We started our engines, spoke to the folks with an updated DTW arrival time, ran our checklists and reviewed our takeoff and departure procedures. We'll be underway in a moment. Winds from the west are light today so Dispatch increased our cruise speed from .80 to .81 and we anticipate an "On Time" arrival in DTW saving all of our domestic connections. You can see here the long displaced threshold that I'd mentioned earlier. We're heavy today so you can see that I followed the yellow line that provided the most possible runway. Not that I wouldn't anyway.
Older jet airliners thru the windscreen. All of these airplanes, except the 757 below have been retired.
DTW to TPA in a 757-300 with a few weather diversions. 6/22/09
It's unusual to have a -300 on this route.
It's unusual to have a -300 on this route.
MSP to ANC: NWA Flight 845, 757-251,6/29/08
- Ship# 5534, N534US, MSN 24265, mfg 10/88 -
- Ship# 5534, N534US, MSN 24265, mfg 10/88 -
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Through the windscreen.