Miami Plane Spotting

Real World Aviation Spotting
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Hello IFC’ers. This is a topic I should’ve posted a few days ago but my laziness has taken over. But now I have gathered up the motivation to make this topic. On the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, after dropping my mom off at the airport for her flight to Cali @NonStopsAviation summon, my dad and I made our way over to the viewing area by runway 9. Enjoy these shots you’re about to see!

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Starting things off we have a go around! Pilot decided it would be better to attempt the landing again

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Next up we have a KAL Cargo 777 departing for Campinas, Brazil

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After that is an Avianca Cargo A330-200 touching down after a long overnight trip from Santiago de Chile

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2 straight AA 737-800s. The first one was from San Juan which was the one that did the go-around. The second one came from Detroit

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After that I was able to call myself lucky enough to see this. One of the last remaining MD-80 series aircraft that are still in service to this day.

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Another AA 737-800 this one coming in from D-F-W @Mason_Lennox summon

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next up it’s the queen of the skies stealing the spotlight! this Atlas Air 747-400 departing for Chicago O’Hare

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I was watching flight radar and I literally dropped down to the floor and started sobbing and having my daily crashout (those in the tuff chats know) when i realized it was on approach for runway 12 rather than runway 9 but regardless I was able to catch its arrival from Dubai

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And concluding this topic we have an Atlas Air 747-8 on takeoff

I hope you enjoyed this topic. I will be sharing the spotting video here once it’s finished. Stay tuned and have a great rest of your day!

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Nice pics!

My favorite is the 747 ;)

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Hope she has a good and safe time!

I’m going to Cali for Spring Break via Cartagena on JetSmart really excited to try them out!

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These are pretty common over in MIA lol.

This is by far my favorite picture

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yep first time there in 3 1/2 years

she said depending on how things are there she might go back with me over the summer. Enjoy JetSmart!

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they sure are. Remember I’m more of an FLL person 😂

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Well atleast you get to see the ZERO G 727

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Amazing photos Adam!

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yeah that’s true i’ve seen it quite a bit

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Thanks Benny!

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@Jger @SoFloAviator

Old aircraft are pretty common at MIA in general

Old 767-200s used to fly to Santo Domingo with the Eastern Airlines startup every month

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lol like every aircraft uncommon to the world is common at MIA, ex: remember the cargo DC-8s?

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Oh yeah, they are really common on the north side of the airport

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the north side of the airport is where you’ll find all those planes sitting around. Here are some bonus shot I was able to capture

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I thought only American aircraft occupied that area (I was mainly referring to the very north side past the runways)

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yeah I thought that too idk what the SAS plane was there and ik what you were referring to. I saw the dreamlifter and AN-125 sitting there i couldn’t get a pic tho 😭

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I’ve also seen some obscure stuff there to

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I love this liveries - very reminiscent of Frontier.

Great shots, @SoFloAviator !

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thanks @Mort!

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I was in that exact spot when I was in Miami 😈

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