London LHR to Karachi on Qatar 22-07-2020

[Zulfiqar]

Some photos from my travels in Qatar Airways from London to Karachi. Flight was from Terminal 2 instead of T4. Business lounges were not available due to COVID-19. QR was handing £20 food vouchers for business passengers to redeem from couple of food outlets that were open. The flight was half full and the overall experience was excellent. A359 Q-suite seat 4A was very comfortable and relatively private but the old business class seats on 77W on DOH-KHI section was not too bad either, especially for a shorter journey. However, a seamless inflight experience would be better.












View of economy section - one business class section was also empty.


At Doha-view of AP-BLS from lounge unloading mangoes.

Business lounge was open.

Could only eat the appetizer as was too full.














Overall, on-time, excellent flight and service.

[baberblues]

Thanks for the great pictures and glad you had a good flight. I was dismayed at the fact at how dirty these air bridges were in Karachi.

[Abbas Ali]

Thank you Zulfiqar for sharing.

Does anyone have info about the device/instrument seen in this photo:



I think same thing is also visible in this photo from eighties.



Maybe some old historic equipment/device preserved?

Abbas

[Zulfiqar]

Most welcome Baberblues and Abbas.
They have a lot of time to clean the place in the last few months.

Perhaps these aircrafts also need to be preserved or place on a museum.

[Blackbird]

My guess is that device was used in old days to denote direction of active runway. I have seen similar shaped devices at small airfields in UK but we hardly ever rely on them.

[Abbas Ali]

^ Thank you for the info.

Abbas

[baberblues]

I sincerely hope too, I went to karachi after 16 years and I was very dissapointed with the state of the airport. The awful cobbles outside of the airport need to go, there is no need for this.

[Squawk_1200]

The device is called Wind T . It is still used to observe the wind direction.

[Abbas Ali]

^ thank you for the info



Wind Direction Indicators

it is possible to determine wind direction and runway in use by visual wind indicators. A pilot should check these wind indicators.

The wind direction indicator can be a wind cone, wind sock, tetrahedron, or wind tee. These are usually located in a central location near the runway and may be placed in the center of a segmented circle.

Wind tees and tetrahedrons can swing freely and align themselves with the wind direction. Since a wind tee or tetrahedron can also be manually set to align with the runway in use, a pilot should also look at the wind sock for wind information, if one is available.

https://www.flightliteracy.com/wind-dir ... ndicators/