PIA 743 AP-BFW "Garden of the Mughal" at Madinah

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PIA 743 AP-BFW "Garden of the Mughal" at Madinah

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Here are some shots of VPIA flight PK1417, as it operated a scheduled Hajj flight
from Lahore to the Holy city of Madinah.
Departing Lahore in the afternoon, it arrived at Madinah at dusk, so please excuse the
darkness of the pictures.

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On approach to Madinah Prince Mohammed International.....

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Entering airport territory.....

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Pakistani 1417 heavy, short finals runway 35.....

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About to touch down.......

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The sun about to set.....

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O yeah keep the nose up!

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1 second to touchdown.....

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She's down...hmmm someone didnt complete their checklist.....

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whoa big fella.....reversers and spoilers visible.......lets see if the slats really
break off!

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nope slats are still there....

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ATC and 2 jumbos.......

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He didnt have to burn his brakes and make it off here, he could have taken the highway.......

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vacating the active......

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Ohud mountain back there......

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taxiing to the ramp.....

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taxiing to the parking area, this Saudia heavy is parked just behind the small Hajj terminal...

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maintenance hangar in clear view, note the 767 wearing the old Saudia livery....

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Hajj traffic......

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Negotiating the ramp, Pakistan 1417 heavy.......

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Parked alongside 3 jumbos and a couple of 320s......

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Lovely ATC........

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The other side of the ramp, with 2 777s, a leased 747 and 767 and an A300 at the far
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Foxtrot Whisky - The Garden of the Mughal at her parking, as an Iran Air 310 approaches the airport....
Soon the Hajjis will be offloaded, the airplane will be refuelled and head back to
Lahore as Pakistan 2407 heavy under the same crew.......
The angle of arrival is inversely proportional to the probability of survival.
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Post by AbdulAziz »

Great shots ... with great a/c

Thanks for sharing.

A.Aziz
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Post by Hamad »

GREAT SHOTS, as we know from you.
My favourites are Picture 9 and 10.
Best Regards
Best Regards / Wa´alaikumusalam
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Post by PIA10001 »

nice shots buddy, seems like hajj operation on the the top of the world.. lovely traffic in Madina. I hope Madina is not as busy even in Hajj seasaon, as u ve made it...... excellent work, so do we gonaa see the shots of flight which is back to LHE???????
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Post by cpt_747 »

Nice shots!

One thing, everytime I look at your shots, I wonder how much time it must have taken you to do these flights, because they're so many of them (shots). I personally get tired of taking screen shots, uploading them and then writting descriptions etc etc... ufff (this is one difficult job) something you're good at.

Great shots, thanks for sharing! :)
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Which means we're travelling 97 times the speed of sound. And yet we can't feel the motion,
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Post by VirtualPIA »

thanks guys for appreciating the work.....

believe me it takes nearly 3 or 4 times as long as it would take most of you to take the shots.......
my system is getting really old, FS crashes every few times, then removing the sharper edges in the shots, adjusting the lighting, putting the right traffic there, uploading the shots from a 56k modem and adding comments.........it takes me a long time to do this......

but ur guys comments always make it worthwhile...........

as for the return shots, I'll do that at Karachi, not Lahore......with a newly repainted 310.........AP-BEG, plus I've added a lot of GSE and trees, etc. to madinah........a couple of days, and I'll have the shots out.....
The angle of arrival is inversely proportional to the probability of survival.