Hi,

I thought this was interesting news..

 

One of LHs A350 flew from Munich to the Falkland Islands (LH2574) as part of a crew supply effort for the Antarctic expedition ship Polarstern. Flighttime 15hrs 36minutes!

Also the flight track has been published.

https://twitter.com/lufthansaNews/status/1355115722377195520/photo/1

 

 

I caught a glimpse of that plane the other day as it came in over Munich. It was coming in at such an unusual angle over the city, it must have been on radar vectors. I just happened to be out enjoying the sun, and perhaps the pilots got vectors over the city to give the polar explorers a nice view. Thanks for confirming that BTW, it's what I had suspected, that the flight had something to do with Antarctica.

I whipped out my phone and managed to just catch a shot using zoom, and then went straight to Flightradar24 to see who it was. When I saw MPN Mount Pleasant as the origin, I at first thought some place in the US South that I wasn't really familiar with, maybe South Carolina. Maybe a charter flight for BMW employees or something. But then I checked the airport on Wikipedia  "Oh cool! The Falkland Islands." Funny they have EGYP as their ICAO code, so far away from the bulk of EG.. airports like EGLL and such.

"The world's longest corridor, 800 metres long, links the barracks, messes, and recreational and welfare areas of the station, and was nicknamed the "Death Star Corridor" by personnel."

One of their notable features. It really is just the kind of place I would love to visit, I love somewhat obscure destinations.

The ofp package was 20mb for each sector. 😁😉

 

  

Edited February 8, 20215 yr by fluffyflops

On 2/6/2021 at 10:36 AM, Antipodeslonghaul said:

I caught a glimpse of that plane the other day as it came in over Munich. It was coming in at such an unusual angle over the city, it must have been on radar vectors. I just happened to be out enjoying the sun, and perhaps the pilots got vectors over the city to give the polar explorers a nice view. Thanks for confirming that BTW, it's what I had suspected, that the flight had something to do with Antarctica.

I whipped out my phone and managed to just catch a shot using zoom, and then went straight to Flightradar24 to see who it was. When I saw MPN Mount Pleasant as the origin, I at first thought some place in the US South that I wasn't really familiar with, maybe South Carolina. Maybe a charter flight for BMW employees or something. But then I checked the airport on Wikipedia  "Oh cool! The Falkland Islands." Funny they have EGYP as their ICAO code, so far away from the bulk of EG.. airports like EGLL and such.

"The world's longest corridor, 800 metres long, links the barracks, messes, and recreational and welfare areas of the station, and was nicknamed the "Death Star Corridor" by personnel."

One of their notable features. It really is just the kind of place I would love to visit, I love somewhat obscure destinations.

Yes. I am glad you had the opportunity to spot the A350 on arrival to EDDM.👍

 

BTW- the Mount Pleasant base where the LH A350 landed is a huge military complex! It was interesting to see the RAF A400Ms also take off from there.

My wife and I were on an Antarctic cruise prior to the Corona virus epidemic exploding in January last year and one of the ports of call was the Falkland Islands.  Its  a very interesting place to visit.

If you have an opportunity to visit I would certainly recommend it. You can really touch nature there.There's more penguins than human inhabitants!

 

 

On 2/8/2021 at 10:28 PM, fluffyflops said:

The ofp package was 20mb for each sector. 😁😉

 

  

😮!