Bristol: Airport - Video Thread

[Aviador]

Great footage @Jerry I didn't make it around to that side of the airfield when I visited a couple of years or so back. Can you get there easily enough from the where the terminal is?

 

[Jerry]

Great footage @Jerry I didn't make it around to that side of the airfield when I visited a couple of years or so back. Can you get there easily enough from the where the terminal is?

Thanks! Yep it's not too bad! Follow the sign for the golf course and then follow the fence.
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[Aviador]

Thanks for the map @Jerry , did you walk from the Downside Road onto a path around the perimeter or is there a road, I can't quite tell?

(I take it you didn't really walk along the parallel taxiway 😆 )

 

[Jerry]

Thanks for the map @Jerry , did you walk from the Downside Road onto a path around the perimeter or is there a road, I can't quite tell?

(I take it you didn't really walk along the parallel taxiway 😆 )

No I took my car! Need that for the ladder to get over most of the fence!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I lived at Redhill (bottom of map in attachment) until I was 20 - before that I lived in the nearby village of Wrington until I was six.

The lane shown coming up from Redhill at the bottom of the map used to go straight on to meet up with the existing lane coming up from Downside Road. This was before the runway was extended in the 1960s (it used to be considerably shorter than its current stunted length). The lane was then diverted in the loop around the end of the extended runway - marked in red by Jerry on the left hand side of the map.
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[superking]

Also on sunday afternoons the ice cream man is there serving ice cream. Word of warning. If you being served with ice cream and a aircraft takes off or lands you have to wait till that's finished.

 

[Jerry]

 

[Jerry]

 

[superking]

I wonder if the airport had any noise complaints when it was at the airport.

 

[Jerry]

 

[Jerry]

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Thanks Jerry. Part of the future historical record of UK airports operations during the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic.

A pity the weather was murky shutting out the spectacular view of the Severn estuary below the western end of the airfield with the Welsh coast and mountains beyond.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Storm Francis at Bristol Airport last Tuesday. The local rag made a feature of this video.

I don't know how long the videographer was at the airport but in the 14-minute video there are eight easyJet landings and three take-offs; three Ryanair landings; one TUI landing and one TUI take-off plus some bizjets. Almost makes things look near to normal.

 

[JENNYJET]

.......and what was the 'public interest ' in highlighting a ropey landing in difficult conditions? To frighten or inform? One assumes all other traffic was as normal this of no interest of course. Apologies to TLY, I am having problems with video player on all devices, always oversized for the screen and unable to reduce accordingly. Is this a Windows 10 issue?

 

[Jerry]

.......and what was the 'public interest ' in highlighting a ropey landing in difficult conditions? To frighten or inform? One assumes all other traffic was as normal this of no interest of course. Apologies to TLY, I am having problems with video player on all devices, always oversized for the screen and unable to reduce accordingly. Is this a Windows 10 issue?

Simply clickbait for their website.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

.......and what was the 'public interest ' in highlighting a ropey landing in difficult conditions? To frighten or inform? One assumes all other traffic was as normal this of no interest of course. Apologies to TLY, I am having problems with video player on all devices, always oversized for the screen and unable to reduce accordingly. Is this a Windows 10 issue?

I don't know if you are aware that Reach Plc (formerly Trinity Mirror) that owns well over 200 regional newspaper titles as well as some national ones sends many of its finest (often young and inexperienced 'journalists') surfing the internet all day for stories. They particularly seem to favour social media sites and YouTube. It's not journalism as respected members of that profession in the past would know it, but merely an inexpensive way of filling space in their web editions.

Reach's Bristol title spends a lot of time surfing YouTube for BRS events because the airport's hilltop position often offers some spectacular action when the weather misbehaves.

Storm Francis didn't provide that much stomach-churning entertainment compared with some weather events at BRS but that didn't stop Reach's Bristol edition headling its story, Video shows scary moment planes land at Bristol Airport during Storm Francis.

I regret that I'm unable to help with your Windows 10 issue. I am an Apple user from an iMac desk top.

 

[JENNYJET]

I also have an Apple MacBook that has seemingly locked me out as my passcode is not accepted. Just collecting dust now. I know where I am with Microsoft products as I started with Win95. Oh so simple those days!

 

[JENNYJET]

Is REACH in any way connected to NEWSQUEST? The publisher of my local freesheet. On a purely personal note, I think it is totally unacceptable for Journalists to trawl social media for stories. I no longer have any accounts with those sites since I was hacked and someone accessed and altered content of a personal nature on Facebook causing no end of trouble for me. Social media is a supposedly safe place for people to congregate without risking the wrong people making mischief with information freely shared.

I am hoping F4A is more secure and sensitive information is only shared through the private message section. I just do not trust Journalism and have good reason.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I also have an Apple MacBook that has seemingly locked me out as my passcode is not accepted. Just collecting dust now. I know where I am with Microsoft products as I started with Win95. Oh so simple those days!

I began with Microsoft too, and AOl Dial-Up, beginning with Windows 98, then ME, then XP and might have had Windows 7 (I can't remember now) before transferring my allegiance to Apple which I prefer.

Is REACH in any way connected to NEWSQUEST? The publisher of my local freesheet. On a purely personal note, I think it is totally unacceptable for Journalists to trawl social media for stories. I no longer have any accounts with those sites since I was hacked and someone accessed and altered content of a personal nature on Facebook Groups causing no end of trouble for me. Social media is a supposedly safe place for people to congregate without risking the wrong people making mischief with information freely shared.

I am hoping F4A is more secure and sensitive information is only shared through the private message section. I just do not trust Journalism and have good reason.

Newsquest is a similar organisation to Reach Plc but the two are not connected in any way.

My remit on F4A doesn't lie with the technical side - thank goodness both for members and me. Ashley who sometimes posts to the BHX forum is the expert and Aviador is also well versed in such matters.

I'd better get back to the subject of BRS videos. On a fine day or at sunset on a clear evening the western end of the airfield overlooking the Severn estuary six hundred feet below and Wales beyond that can be a stunning background to aircraft landing or taking off at that end of the field. There are some superb examples on YouTube and elswhere on the internet.

 

[Jerry]

If anyone is planning on flying from Bristol this video might give you an incline in what to expect measures wise for Covid19.