Bristol: Airport - Video Thread

[TheLocalYokel]

If anyone is planning on flying from Bristol this video might give you an incline in what to expect measures wise for Covid19.

Fascinating video, Jerry. Thanks for posting. I guess it's pretty much like that with most airlines and airports.

I've watched one or two of the aviation videos made by this couple in the past and they are usually worth a look.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

A very good video taken last Monday (26 July) at BRS depicting the first wave of departures in the first two hours of the operational day. About 20 airline departures are shown including a couple of Jet2 B737/800s, two easyJet A321s and a TUI B737 MAX8. There is almost a sense of normality after such a long period of closure or near closure.

In pre-pandemic times at this time of year around 30-35 airline departures (depending on the day of the week) might be expected during the first wave of the day.

 

[Jerry]

The landing video from my flight to Bristol from Inverness last month

 

[Jerry]

Lufthansa E190 arriving and departing from Bristol from the other week.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

 

[Jerry]

This is from the end of September.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Excellent! Thanks Jerry.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Some shots of aircraft landing at BRS on 7 December 2021 in Storm Barra including a Ryanair from Budapest that performed a go-around.

A more detailed video was also posted on YouTube by the same videographer Mraviationguy regarding the Ryanair decision to go-around. It landed safely 25 minutes later.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

30 minutes of activity at BRS taken on Wednesday of this week including around 25 take-offs/landings. Most of the action concerns easyJet and Ryanair - no surprise there - and includes a couple of easyJet A321neos landing and one taking off. The crew of a Lufthansa Regional E190 reported a windshear.

The weather, whilst perhaps not typical of BRS in winter was nevertheless not uncommon, with wind gusts up to 35 knots, a wet runway with an abundance of spray and a moody feel with the surrounding hills and Severn estuary often obscured or partially obscured in the murk.

Once again the video shows the impressive skills of the pilots. If we were beginning from scratch with no financial or environmental impediments I think that the windswept and often mist-laden Broadfield Down with its 600-plus feet elevation would be one of the last places in the city region to be chosen for an airport.

It certainly makes BRS an interesting place for aviation aficionados.

 

[BRSflyer]

The YouTube algorithm was at work (probably to do with browsing the BRS videos above!), and found that a channel had uploaded the episodes of a documentary about Bristol Airport filmed in the early 2000s.

Enjoy!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Thank you for posting that video link, BRSflyer. Although it was filmed after the new terminal was opened in 2000 the airport has expanded greatly since then.

The narrator said that 'last year the airport handled four million passengers'. 2003 saw 3.887 million and 2004 4.603 million so it looks as though the series was filmed in 2004 or 2005. I can remember the series when it was broadcast on the local tv channel (ITV I think). I found this episode particularly interesting because it concentrates on the operational side, albeit the baggage system breakdown wasn't the sort of thing the airport management would have wanted given such widespread publicity.

easyJet had just five aircraft based then - this year it looks like 17 or 18.

It was fascinating to see airlines co-operating to deal with the baggage problems with an Air 2000 Boeing 757 captain agreeing to convey the bags left behind from a MyTravel A320 (half its baggage load) on the Palma route.

We were also told that the airport planned to spend £100 million over the next ten years 'to boost services and facilities'. In the event a lot more than that was spent.

A comment was made that the airport was planning to handle another 13 million passengers in the next 25 years (ie around he year 2030). I think it should have been a total of 13 million. They weren't to know then that the major planning expansion approved by the local authority in 2011 came with what has turned out to be a troublesome 10 mppa passenger cap.

I'll try to search out the other episodes on YouTube now you've whetted my appetite.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Here are the other five episodes from the BRS documentary series of the early 'noughties'.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

The West Country caught the edge of Storm Dudley and it's been blowing hard all day. Mr aviationguy was there to record the events as usual and published this trailer of one landing at BRS this afternoon. A full video is to follow.

It's a rare day at BRS when at least some wind is not blowing across the 600-foot AMSL Broadfield Down plateau that looks out on the Severn estuary below.

However, if the forecasters have it anywhere near correct Friday will host the strongest winds in the area for 30 years when Storm Eunice (such an old-fashioned, gentle name too) takes to the stage. Parts of the South West have forecasts for 100 mph gusts, with 70 mph widely expected. If that transpires some disruption to flights is all but inevitable.

 

[jfy1999]

The West Country caught the edge of Storm Dudley and it's been blowing hard all day. Mr aviationguy was there to record the events as usual and published this trailer of one landing at BRS this afternoon. A full video is to follow.

It's a rare day at BRS when at least some wind is not blowing across the 600-foot AMSL Broadfield Down plateau that looks out on the Severn estuary below.

However, if the forecasters have it anywhere near correct Friday will host the strongest winds in the area for 30 years when Storm Eunice (such an old-fashioned, gentle name too) takes to the stage. Parts of the South West have forecasts for 100 mph gusts, with 70 mph widely expected. If that transpires some disruption to flights is all but inevitable.

Here’s the full video - it seems there are a lot of Aer Lingus Regional training flights happening at the moment,

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Here’s the full video - it seems there are a lot of Aer Lingus Regional training flights happening at the moment,

Always an interesting airport for pilots to land so I'm told by those who know. Good practise for the ATR pilots no doubt as they will meet those conditions in revenue service when landing in the North Somerset mountains on occasions.

 

[Aviador]

Great footage. I suspect most flights will be cancelled tomorrow across much of the UK. I would hazard a guess, pun intended, that the wind will be out of limits for most if not all operators.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

First Storm Dudley then Storm Eunice two days later. Mraviationguy was at BRS again for Eunice and captured more incredible footage. There were a number of weather-related go arounds on the day.

The first video is of an easyJet A319 inbound from Edinburgh that actually made a touch and go with the wheels touching the runway but not at the same time. An amazing piece of flying and yet again shows the immense skill of airline pilots.

The second go around was an easyJet A321 from Faro that attempted to land at the height of the gales with a 68mph wind blowing. One of the YouTube comments re the Faro flight was from a passenger who said the video does not capture how uncomfortable it was on board with some passengers being sick and crying.

Perhaps more amusingly another comment was from someone who didn't know that Bristol even had an airport. He or she is probably not alone as everything is under-stated in the West. John Betjeman whose favourite city was Bristol said, "It's a city that likes to keep itself to itself". Not much has changed over the 60 plus years since he wrote that.

Mraviationguy will produce a longer video of the day in due course.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Mraviationguy has now produced a full video on YouTube of the events at BRS associated with Storm Eunice.

He has also produced a clip of an Aer Lingus A320 from Dublin landing at BRS this morning during Storm Franklin which shows another superb piece of flying.

Both videos can be accessed via the YouTube links shown.

Thanks to Mraviationguy for some incredible pictures of the intense storms as they affected aircraft at BRS over the past few days.

 

[A330]

Mraviationguy has now produced a full video on YouTube of the events at BRS associated with Storm Eunice.

He has also produced a clip of an Aer Lingus A320 from Dublin landing at BRS this morning during Storm Franklin which shows another superb piece of flying.

Both videos can be accessed via the YouTube links shown.

Thanks to Mraviationguy for some incredible pictures of the intense storms as they affected aircraft at BRS over the past few days.

While watching some of the LHR videos from last Friday, the following video appeared on Youtube suggestions. It's an easyJet flight from Edinburgh to Bristol. The first attempt (around 11 minutes 40 seconds) is a go around actually it's almost a touch and go.

The reason for posting is the passenger perspective can give the impression of a near miss or a scary ordeal. Then I remembered about this thread and the same approach was captured by Mravaiationguy in the first posted above by TheLocalYokel.

If you're short on time forward to about 13 minutes 40 seconds to watch. Although a challenging scenario for the pilots, they dealt with the situation very well.

Thanks to Mraviationguy and others for braving the weather and producing videos for us to enjoy and thanks for TLY for highlighting to the forum.

 

[BRSflyer]

For those after nostalgia, season 2 is out on YouTube.

Does anyone have pictures/details of the Iberia A300 that went off the runway they mention?