A few hours spent at nice and sunny, yet brisk and at times windy KBDL. Not a whole lot in the way of specials, though I did get to watch a R22 shoot a missed approach so that was something different. This was my first chance to get out with my 100-400L and I was impressed.
Hard to believe that so much of the regional fleet is still in the old colors. There was also a United Express ERJ in the old livery too.
That green fence was a bit maddening. Just translucent enough to see what was going on through it, just opaque enough to totally ruin a good view.
Eagle took about a 15 minute outbound delay at the end of the runway while they burned off excess fuel. Not exactly sure why they overfilled the tanks since there was no wait for departure. They pulled off onto a short piece of taxiway.
There was a pretty hefty crosswind building on 33 by this point. AA caught a really good bounce on the landing.
JetBlue really wanted to land on 33 and started an approach, but ended up deciding to make a 360 and land on 24 instead. By this time, it was a a 20+ kt crosswind at pretty much 90 degrees to the runway making 24 a much better option.
Thanks to Steve Furst for the last minute advice on BDL ops.
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