LGA spotting 4/22/07

[AirtrafficController]

runway 31 landings. I happen to live in Middle Village where the arrivals pass right over my house. The zoom on the camrea was bad so i had a great idea of using my binoculars to zoom in.

AirTran Airways 737-700


Frontier Airlines A320 from Denver


United 757-200 from Denver also


Northwest A320


Comair CRJ-100


Geico banner over the city


American Airlines MD-88



U.S. Airways Express ERJ-145


Midwest 717-200




a rare U.S. Airways A321


ATA Airlines 737-800


Delta MD-88


rare American MD-80


Delta 757-200

[cancidas]

that is a TZ 737-300, the -800s have winglets and the NG wing. i'll give you an A for ingenuity though!

[PhilDernerJr]

Good pictures of the deps. Though the quality wasnt great :D

[AirtrafficController]

uh it was arrivals

[ATAIndy]

So if these were arrivals, I'm guessing you were five or so miles out?

[AirtrafficController]

sadly no it was around 1 or 2 miles out

[ATAIndy]

Really? I'm surprised that so many planes still have their gear up. I live under the approach to runway 14 at IND and the planes here starting lower their gear right above me, and I'm 5 to 6 miles from the field.

[hiss srq]

That is because it is the expressway visual to LGA. Because of the way the approach is flown it is very well possible as I see some planes drop the gear right before they make the base to final turn on occasion in the tower. Here is the chart for the Expressway visual.

[stuart schechter]

+10 for creativity!
+6 for quality

Get a better lens! Those would be great shots!

[ATAIndy]

Wow, the pilots have little time to go-around if the gear fails then.

[hiss srq]

It is not a normal occurance. Most of the time they have it down well before they start the turn from base to final. On another note today was out and about on a break wondering and a Colgan Saab came in from the North and made a turn in to land on 31.

Slow day but some intresting traffic and ocurances.