Hong Kong 25R Arrivals

Pilot_B · November 25, 2019, 1:41am

Hello all,

I went spotting at HKG yesterday afternoon and saw some nice 25R arrivals. Let me know what you think! (All of these photos are 1280px, if you would like to see full resolution please pm me.)

Mike Golf arriving from Munich.

Yankee Kilo from Frankfurt.

“Mystery Girl” coming in with a mismatched nose cone.

My first time seeing Velocity!

UPS 767 arriving from Taipei? I think?

SQ’s beautiful Star Alliance 777-300ER.

One of HK Airlines’ few A350’s on final from Vancouver.

Swiss from Zurich.

G-XLEJ making some final adjustments after a flight from Heathrow.

Cathay 77W bringing some vacationers home from Bangkok.

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Czechoslovaki · November 25, 2019, 1:42am

I see HK, I like.

Lovin’ it.

Pilot_B · November 25, 2019, 1:42am

Thank you!

KPIT · November 25, 2019, 1:55am

Just curious what sort of equipment did you use?

Pilot_B · November 25, 2019, 2:10am

Canon T1i (500D) and Canon 70-300 IS USM

AndrewWu · November 25, 2019, 2:24am

The L version or the all-black version?

Pilot_B · November 25, 2019, 2:27am

All-black one

TOGA · November 25, 2019, 2:30am

Hey, fellow hong konger here, were you near avseco? I tried getting there but the exits from the airport express were sealed off.

Pilot_B · November 25, 2019, 2:35am

Yes I was on Cheong Yip rd

TOGA · November 25, 2019, 2:38am

And did you get there by bus? It seems like this is the only way to bypass security.

Pilot_B · November 25, 2019, 2:43am

Yeah I got the S1 from Tung Chung

DutchPilot1 · November 25, 2019, 10:33am

Nice pics, gonna post some of my HKIA 25R arrivals pics here too; I’ve got tons.

8SmartFlying · November 25, 2019, 10:34am

Shame they closed the sky deck, spotting at home must aint as easy anymore…anyway great pics! Love VHHH!

DutchPilot1 · November 25, 2019, 11:34am

Yes, especially with all this going on. We can’t even go into the terminal without showing our boarding pass to an ‘officer’.

TOGA · November 25, 2019, 1:22pm

Yeah that annoyed me big time when I had to return home after taking the airport express.

Pilot_B · November 25, 2019, 1:23pm

Yeah it’s a shame, however this spot is actually very good!

TOGA · November 25, 2019, 1:34pm

I really wished I could’ve utilized the observation deck better before it was closed. Now I just have to rely on some road near 07R for 07R ops…sad. What I dislike even more is the lack of decent planespotting spots at VHHH. Take EDDF for example, they have a darn platform for taxiing aircraft, would it pain them to install something similar near HAECO? The platform would be heavily utilized for 07R and 25L ops so usage is not an issue. Here’s the platform at EDDF:

Pilot_B · November 25, 2019, 1:35pm

Who knows, maybe something like this will come now that the SkyDeck is closed.

TOGA · November 25, 2019, 1:47pm

Even a skydeck like at Tokyo Haneda would be appreciated very much, but looking at the renders of the third runway proposal I doubt this would happen. There used to be a thing where you could rent a boat to planespot by 25R, however due to construction of the third runway it’s now off limits, hopefully it may reopen when the third runway is completed or else we will barely have any planespotting locations to use.