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Malaga to Manchester flight GPX tracklog - aborted landing
This flight was a cracker, made extra special not only for the fact it was the first I was able to fully record on my GPX logger for later analysis - but for the added drama of the flight.
First off the skies that day were a bit congested so we had to do an extra loop over Warrington whist we were waiting, but next there was great excitement.
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Amsterdam Schiphol to Manchester flight GPX tracklog
My next blog entry from a string of flight inspired posts is another flight GPX tracklog.
This time from my weekend city break in Amsterdam. I initially thought this info might be a bit unique and interesting, but in the search to find some of the other flight details I came across Flightaware.com. It has some great info there, including to my more »
Free water at Manchester Airport Terminal 3
Another bug bear here, one of several about Manchester Airport! The biggest issue with them is pickups - the sheer cheek of charging for you to go and collect your friends and familys from the termial is bordering on criminal.
Not content with charging an arm and a leg for airlines to use the airport they impose additional pain of 'just' more »
Manchester to Paris Charles de Gaulle flight GPX tracklog
I don't fly that often so it took me a while to perfect the technique of logging my aeroplane journeys, but I've now cracked it and am getting good results so long as I've got a window seat.
Back in the early days of my Windows mobile powered HTC phones I had GPS available to me but unfortunately this was so early on in the smartphone era that use more »
Best place to sledge in Manchester
The only real source of places to sledge I've found is this article from the Manchester Evening News. There's a couple of good spots there but there appears to be a glaring omission - there's nothing in the Peak District, but you are probably not going to find a great hill without a bit of local knowledge!
Lyme Park comes close to it obviously but more »
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