Rainy Day Plane Spotting at Funchal Airport, Madeira | 24-04-17

Well, finally at long last, after requests I have visited the famous Funchal Cristiano Ronaldo Airport, famous for its sporadic approaches, landings, and some times go arounds. Sadly, upon arrival winds were not in our favour, which meant Runway 23 was in use for most of the time. However there was a short period whereby RW05 came to use, of which benefited us as we were there at the time.

Weather wise, we didn't see much sunshine lets put it like that. Out of all the forecasts and METAR's I looked at, none said that it would rain. So we went spotting, and within about half an hour, a large band of heavy rainful came, and pretty much dominated into the evening, getting worse with fog later on. (Causing problems for the airport after we left). Fortunately it created a wet runway, so some nice spray on landings and departures when 05 is in use

It was nice to visit Funchal finally, and I will definitely be visiting here again in the future, in the hope of a more sunny day. There wasn't much movement wise here, a lot of the more interesting movements such as Easyjet and Monarch had arrived and departed before we got to the spotting area. And the other interesting stuff, Transavia, British Airways etc all had to divert due to the bad weather later on. The last clip on this video, a TUI Netherlands 737 was one of the first to land in about 3 hours due to the heavy rain and thick fog which rolled into the airport. Transavia, which was scheduled to arrive at around 17:30 diverted to Porto Santo and didn't return till the following morning. Pretty much widespread delays hit the airport this evening.

Video includes: Thomas Cook Scandinavia A321's, Thomson Airways (TUI) 737-800's and 757-200's, Jet2 737-800's, Finnair A321, TAP Portugal A319, SAS 737-800, Condor A320, SATA Azores Dash 8 Q400 and an Aero VIP Jetstream 32

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Видео Rainy Day Plane Spotting at Funchal Airport, Madeira | 24-04-17 канала Casey Planespotting