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- Photo Date: Jul 30, 2009
- Uploaded: Apr 21, 2011
- Istanbul Ataturk/Yesilkoy Int'l Airport - LTBA, Turkey
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The view from Tarkim Flight School is just about as good a view as you could get at a major airport... a great place for great photography, relaxation and wiling away the hours thinking of what might have been. Taking it easy is fellow JP.Net up-loader "Gillingham Rob" or, as I might remind him, Rob "what was that I just hit?" Wilkinson ;-) Among the calamities of our visit to Istanbul was a hired car returned with some Heath Robinson style "creative modifications" such as a "twig adjustable" semi-rigid mirror and "Go Faster Grooves" on the bodywork, all of which made little difference to the state of the vehicle as given. A few days later I found myself behind the wheel and driving across two continents without shoes or insurance because Rob "I've never had Hay Fever In My Life!" Wilkinson neither saw a need for both of us to be insured nor saw anything past tears for the best part of a day and a half because of itching eyes. But hey!... or perhaps I should say "Hay!!"... at least we managed to get the car back to the hire company because hour upon hour of lapping up some great spotting in the summer sun obviously took its toll on both of us as we searched, and searched, and searched some more for the car one evening. Even with Rob's eyesight in tact we determined that; "It was definitely there"... "right there, in that car park", until 30 minutes of frustration and exchanging glances with that "what now?" look subsided in relief as we saw it... in the other car park. Anyway, what else could go wrong?... well, missing the only opportunity we had to photograph an AN124 as we got tied up in a maze of dead end roads around SAW eventually became slightly less irritating to us than Rob's eyes had once again become as we sat on the roof at Tarkim the following day and where, as we later found out, we had arrived exactly 24 hours late. "Where's Captain Airbus and the rest of the IST spotters?" was a question we asked ourselves which was eventually answered by the fact that today was Thursday, not Wednesday. Problems?... what problems when you have a view like this??? (and eyes to see through ;-). Google Earth locator for this spot: Lat. 40°58'26.40"N, Long. 28°48'17.31"E
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The view from Tarkim Flight School is just about as good a view as you could get at a major airport... a great place for great photography, relaxation and wiling away the hours thinking of what might have been. Taking it easy is fellow JP.Net up-loader "Gillingham Rob" or, as I might remind him, Rob "what was that I just hit?" Wilkinson ;-) Among the calamities of our visit to Istanbul was a hired car returned with some Heath Robinson style "creative modifications" such as a "twig adjustable" semi-rigid mirror and "Go Faster Grooves" on the bodywork, all of which made little difference to the state of the vehicle as given. A few days later I found myself behind the wheel and driving across two continents without shoes or insurance because Rob "I've never had Hay Fever In My Life!" Wilkinson neither saw a need for both of us to be insured nor saw anything past tears for the best part of a day and a half because of itching eyes. But hey!... or perhaps I should say "Hay!!"... at least we managed to get the car back to the hire company because hour upon hour of lapping up some great spotting in the summer sun obviously took its toll on both of us as we searched, and searched, and searched some more for the car one evening. Even with Rob's eyesight in tact we determined that; "It was definitely there"... "right there, in that car park", until 30 minutes of frustration and exchanging glances with that "what now?" look subsided in relief as we saw it... in the other car park. Anyway, what else could go wrong?... well, missing the only opportunity we had to photograph an AN124 as we got tied up in a maze of dead end roads around SAW eventually became slightly less irritating to us than Rob's eyes had once again become as we sat on the roof at Tarkim the following day and where, as we later found out, we had arrived exactly 24 hours late. "Where's Captain Airbus and the rest of the IST spotters?" was a question we asked ourselves which was eventually answered by the fact that today was Thursday, not Wednesday. Problems?... what problems when you have a view like this??? (and eyes to see through ;-). Google Earth locator for this spot: Lat. 40°58'26.40"N, Long. 28°48'17.31"ECamera
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SierraMike
Sadly, this location has been closed now ...
Captairbus-ErcanKarakas
Nice shot and congratulations. Best wishes... Captainairbus.
Rob Wilkinson
Fantastic memories of a great trip!
