THREE MINUTES to reach the North Sea coast line from this point above Breda

            ► ▓░█    This Airbus A380-861 belonging to Etihad Airways EY67 A388, flight ETD1VW, took off from Abu Dabi 6 and half hours prior to this moment. The half of this flight was at leaving the Turkish coast and entering the air space above the Black Sea at Amasra. In this image she still has the maximum cruise height and ground speed of 40.000 ft. and 472 kts reg. although it will land in London LHR just over 40 minutes. Above Breda Noord at the moment of this capture, pilots will start reducing the speed and begin descending very soon - in just three minutes, exactly when they reach the North Sea coast line above Renesse. When they will have crossed the sea in a strangely winding fashion and reached the British coast at the tip of Foulness island (Foulness Point) at 15.725 ft / 357 kts, it will take them another 21 minutes above the mainland – having flown passed North London and making a full U-turn just short of Reading – to finally land on Heathrow. 

Interesting enough, there is another plane in this image, low down left. The flight UAE70M of Emirates has so many similarities with Etihad that it is almost uncanny. The aircraft is also an Airbus A380-842, flying with the identical speed and just 600 m lower, it also left the Gulf (Dubai) 6 and half hours prior to this capture, it will also land on London Heathrow in 40 minutes, the difference is only a couple minutes both in departures and arrivals. But this plane is at this moment about to fly across south Antwerpen, which is way further from the camera – a major city in Belgium. It is a 100+ km ride over the highway and it takes 1 - 1,5 hours to get there by car. 

So much about my obsession with the navigation. I took this photo for the way the bare branches were "drawn" over a wintery mood canvass, but got intrigued by the airplane while developing it. The sun had set for me on the ground 17 minutes prior to the shot, and the astronomical sunset was 11 minutes before, triggering the blue hour palette. But in the airplane they were bound to still seen the Sun due to 12,2 km height at which the aircraft was cruising.

֎⃣E-M1 gen.1 with OM 12-45mm f4 pro at 21 mm. Overexposed for 1⅓ of a stop. AWB, aperture priority f4.0 resulting in 1/40 and ISO 200. Handheld. Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 2.4 ...I am rather unhappy with the sky colors I got... I got them wrong here. The Haze removal filter changes it. Mostly for the worse, with some unnatural tints. I am not a big fan of pink... ;) But the river has this color also in the sooc jpeg. 

Flight data: Flightradar24

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Taken on: March 1, 2025

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