SCL Santiago de Chile Spotting Pics 3/16 + 3/22

[Iberia A340-600]

For spring break 08 I've been accompanying 37 Vassar Students, to whom my mother is the director of the trip, touring throughout Chile. I'm adopted as some of you know and my birth-father was from Chile so I was looking forward to this trip a lot. One of my favorite airports also happens to be SCL so I was very excited about getting a chance to finally visit. The design of the terminal and airport is really something.

Anyways I had a free day today in Santiago and my father and I rented a car and headed out to the airport around 7:30 in the morning. We stayed until 3:00 in the afternoon because a lot of clouds were rolling in. Figures, the one day that I chose to spot the clouds come. It has been ridiculously sunny here!

Enjoy!

[wunaladreamin]

Beautiful work Gordon.

[LGA777]

Outstanding shots and locations Gordon, looks like you where able to get really close to the action.

Cheers

LGA777

[SoPictureThis]

Nice work, Gordon, I'm very pleased! I think you've done a good job of capturing aircraft from a variety of angles available at that airport, which is something to be proud of.

Glad you caught my EC-JPU, on which I flew a few nights ago!! (Had another lovely Iberia A340-600 flight tonight back to JFK :D )

- jMay

[tipek]

Wow, great stuff! How is the spotting situation down there? I've always wanted to go there :)

Rafal

[CX777]

Gordon some great stuff. Thanks for sharing. :D

[njgtr82]

Very nice shots Gordon, I love the background.

[Iberia A340-600]

Well I'm sitting in the SCL terminal waiting for my flight to Miami, connecting to JFK, and I just saw the LAN A340-300 departure to MAD and FRA takeoff and a LAN A340-300 just arrived as well.

I spent an hour at the airport earlier today to get a shot of the Air Comet A340-300 departure to MAD and to my surprise the Russian IL-96 was also here parked over by the maintenance center. It has been like UN week here the last two weeks with the Ecuador 727-100, Air Force 2, Italian A319, and now the IL-96 here at SCL.

Thanks for the comments guys and SCL is such an amazing airport for spotting. Zero problems and amazing spots.

[JZ1]

Great shots Gordon. I notice that the TAM A330 in your shots all had PW engines while the ones we caught at JFK all had GE engines. Wondering why?

[PhilDernerJr]

That Air Comet is gold. Good work, Gordo.

[mirrodie]

Great stuff Gordo. THanks for sharing!

Loving the 340s and esp. those 732s!

[Iberia A340-600]

Thanks again, guys. :)

Great shots Gordon. I notice that the TAM A330 in your shots all had PW engines while the ones we caught at JFK all had GE engines. Wondering why?

TAM recently took delivery of 2 new A330-200s which are PT-MVM and MVN which have different engines then the rest of the fleet.

[Ari707]

notice the old PBY behind the Russian..