It was on a hot Saturday afternoon. I was sitting in Maastricht in the Netherlands, minutes before my drive back home, when I decided to check the filed flightplans for Liège airport in Belgium, as it is always worth it to make a little stop over there and have a drive around the field.
Absolutely not much was going on according to the plan, except for one very nice callsign; "4W4425"... An MD-11 Freighter of Western Global Airlines!
At the moment of closing my car´s door the aircraft was just somewhere near Munich, so still enough time to look for a good spot as I did not have a ladder with me.
When I finally arrived at the airport and turned on the scanner I could already hear "MOLDCARGO 8802" calling Liège approach, inbound for a runway 22 ILS approach, currently at FL100.
I got out of the car and walked up the hill to my spot. When I arrived, "MOLDCARGO 8802" got cleared to land in the meanwhile. One minute later I could already hear the characteristic howling of the four PW4000 engines.
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While I was scrolling through my photos of this ex Centurion Cargo beauty, "Four-whiskey-four-four-two-five" could already be heard on the radio while being guided to intercept the localizer. I corrected the last settings on my camera, when the good old threeholer finally showed up behind the trees.
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Despite the really hot air that day and the bad light during that time of the day, I am really satisfied with the results, as there is absolutely no heat haze visible.
A little while later, I put my things back into my car, turned on the air conditioning and had a relax drive back home after spending one hour at this nice regional airport, with some good stuff on the SD.
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