Front view of F class suites	Leaving SYD for LAX route
It tells you!	Me	Fall into sleep
Some of the most experienced crew I have met!!!	Into LAX	LA downtown in a partly cloudy day.
My seat back to forward position after we landed.	A 600mm shot from Imperial Hill 25R departure to NRT. JA8071, geared up.	Royal Scott King and his family, and my family in In and Out Burger which I found the quality dropped.

More people busy gambling than see the great dam!!	Downstream.	Vechile Check is required before you drive onto the dam.

Fence wide open, I drove 5 miles down the parking yard to get this one.	Total of 3 TWA L1011 there, this one without the engines, and title stripped off!	Bunch of B727, but Kingman also have lots of Jetstream31s which it made famous for.
3 United ATPs there	Cool to see this 727 from Spain enjoy even more sun!

 

3 Fire Bombers there, you can swing the car to take 50mm shots.	African Queen still there.

New revised scheme after 9-11
	Quite a few DC-10 AA and UA in Goodyear.	Take while you can!

Cessna N3532T took off RWY10 Tucson for Pinal.	Tucson Downtown	Pinal is also Evergreen Maintance Center.
A part of United B747SP along with AA DC10, Sun Country 727 and UA N160UA B747-238B	Canadian Singature DC-10 lay there	VIASA!
Economy gone softball, sad sight.
	Speical Anti-Rust coating applied to this RP-C8830
NASA B747 there too!
	N728DA
MD-80/DC9 line up.		ARMAC C-141 line up.
B52 chopped up, to show the Russians/Soviets during the cold war.	Scrap Yard.	Tucson Int'l
Planes parked at Tucson Int'l.	Me, and pilot, Bob Shane not pictured.

XU600 Kampchuea parked there	Many Vanguard there but unphotographable due to the tightness, only this ex-TWA 727 ok!

Credit: Speical thanks to Mojave Airport provide me 1 hour + ramp tour.
 
 

VH-RMO now in Mojave!		Bunch of Hawaiian DC-9 just got there!
	B-18172 awaiting for FedEx?
MD line up exact the first is B757 National.
India!

Oh that Classic AA T4 and Tom Bradley Int'l		Trans long haul flight parked remote stand, funny red tailed 747 airline, familiar with?
Employee for United in one second before boarding the B763. F class all the way is the only way to travel!	Approaching SCL. 11am arrival. Snow all melted.

LA283 flight to Southern Most city in Chile (2nd Southern most city in the world)  A320. CC-COD	Stop at Puerto Montt, was allowed to take 1 shot.	Punta Arenas inbound Rwy25 landing.
A beautiful restaurant to dine, cheap food, very nice seafood $5 for a chunk Fillet Salmon!!!	Penguin Colony
Map about where I am.	Cave Milodon	Torres del Paine-Tower of the plane, see the 3 towers on right hand side!
		Me and Salto Grande!
Wild weather and unbeliable secnery!!!
Glaciers melts and float towards the beach, you can go near it and almost touch them!!!
Llamas in the national park, only a few animals there to mention!	Cross the border to Argentina to see the largest Glacier in the world, a UNSECO reserve!	Enroute, beautiful sight!
Here it is , Perito Moreno!
Sailing, a big ice block behind me!		Grand View of the glacier.
City of Punta Arenas!	IL76 RA-76549 Kras Air ready to take people to Chilean Antartica Territory	LA082 fly across national park in Chile back to Santiago.

View from the ATC tower, Tallest in South America!	LH easy powerful takeoff for Buenos Aires.
	600mm shot, slow A340 climb only to Buenos Aires.
Retro color		For Buenos Aires and Paris CDG.
	ATC Tower inside view.	Super lucky to see this one in Chile!!
New Southern Winds B732 doing daily Aeroparque to Mendoza and Santiago flight.

Eddy Gual and Don Boyd displayed his shot made onto one of many T-shirts for ACES/Avianca Alliance, celebrate flights out of Ft. Lauderdale.	Sanford Orlando is a easy to spot airport.

Nov 29   UA816 SYD-LAX N179UA B747-400 F class
Takeoff Runway SYD  16R
Landing Runway LAX  25L
POB: 288/347

United First class Suite is super cool, but food are rather much the same as their Business class, amenity kit are great and service are very good by some very experienced crew. 1st class have PTV 9 channels and Personal Video Player, can play over 30 title from UA library. Great Variety.

Freguent Flyers 5/5
Seating 5/5
Service 4.5/5
Meal 4/5
Entertainment 5/5
Flying 4/5
Ontime 5/5
Total out of 35 = 32.5/35

Dec 2    Cessna N3532T charter Pinal Air Park and ARMAC/Davis Monthan.
Takeoff Runway TUS  10
Landing Runway TUS  10
 

Dec 7   UA867 LAX-MIA N649UA B767-300 F class
Takeoff Runway LAX  25R
Landing Runway MIA  09R

United B763 F class is not a sleeper bed, but 64 pitch and almost 170 degrees reclinable. This sector count as an Int'l sector, as we continue to Santiago, Chile with the same plane stopover at Miami for 2 hours.
 

Dec 7   UA867 MIA-SCL N649UA B767-300 F class
Takeoff Runway MIA  09L
Landing Runway SCL  17

The plane after ontime pushed back from gate, held at taxiway for over 20 mins, apparently a FA spotted a door not fully shut. So we taxied back to terminal again, the ground crew carried out repairs and made sure the door is fully tightly in place. I have to say some of UA's FAs are very experienced, even a little thing go wrong, they are not leaving any chances, passenger can be assured flying United safety is number one issue. As a result of repair, we are late for takeoff 1.5 hr late at 0115am. Arrived into Santiago 1 hour late. UA have a nice hub in Miami, every night 11pm, it gets very crowded at F concouse, 4 flights to Buenos Aires, Rio, Sao Paulo and Santiago awaits along with Iberia A340 to Madrid.
 

Dec 9   LA283 SCL-PUQ CC-COD A320 Y class
Takeoff Runway SCL  17
Landing Runway PUQ  25
Loading Factor: close to 100%

This A320 have 2 class, with 16 F and 128 Y class I think. Pretty good service, the plane stopover at Puerto Montt enroute to Punta Arenas (PUQ). Total flight time to the Southern most city is 4h 15mins. Mostly clear weather all the way to the South. You can see some volcanoes, snow covered peak mountains enroute. Punta Arenas have 5 Lan Chile flights served per day from Santiago and one to Falkland Islands, most flight were packed as summer is their tourist peak season.

Dec14   LA082 PUQ-SCL VP-BCS A320 Y class
Takeoff Runway PUQ  Unknown
Landing Runway SCL  17
Loading Factor: close to 100%

Again a fully booked almost all tourist flight, this A320 is VP-reg, not CC- . All Y class lay out, felts more cramp than the other one I flown to PUQ. Service was ok, Salmon for lunch, thats all they have, loads of seafood and salmon freshly carried by the plane to Santiago with us!
 

Dec 15  UA866 SCL-MIA N663UA B763 C class
Takeoff Runway SCL  17
Landing Runway MIA  30

Great service, but apparently, we are the only few 'paying' customer in C class were packed with upgraders, I suspect this is because of people rush to cashed out their Mileage Plus miles, UA declared Ch11 when I was in Chile. The crew and all FAs, acts calmly and normal as if they don't know UA is in Ch11. This is real professionalism that I don't see lots of airline have provided the same kind of professionalism. I love the humour and Santa apron and hat wore by the UA FAs. The jokes and humour and relax atmosphere makes UA stands out and that's why I prefer UAL over the well 'oversquared' Asian airlines such as Singapore.

Dec 24  UA419 MIA-DEN N565UA B752 F class
Takeoff Runway MIA  9L
Landing Runway DEN  35L
FL 390
POB: 81/182

Very empty but comfy flight, we have only 7 out of 24 F class pax this time, so I have the luxury to have a spare seat next to me. Purser Anne Mills #189772 is a real charmer that she sat next to me almost 1 hour before landing DEN, we have a good chat and she is a very talented and young sweet and soft voiced UA FAs (only with UA 6 yrs). I told her Singapore Airlines suck big time (IMHO) and she agreed fully with me. I told her I think SQ FAs 'pad their boobs' that got her laughing very long......Excellent time and the captain is a female too!

Dec 24  UA349 DEN-SFO N520UA B752 F class
Takeoff Runway DEN  25
Landing Runway SFO 28L
FL390
Loading Factor: close to 100%

Normal flight, DEN based crew are also very outgoing and warmth, fell into sleep right after took off. Didn't recored much.

Dec 24   UA863 SFO-SYD N174UA B744 C class
Takeoff Runway SFO 28R
Landing Runway SYD 16R
FL360
POB: 333/347

Kinda suprised UA didn't upgrade me to F class as there are some seats opened and C/Y was all full. Very experienced crews again as UA put the most senior crew flying Transpacific! I love their sweet voice when making flight announcement though!! The FAs have very good memory and remember my name from beginning right to the end! I think United depstite the financial trouble, it have some really great assets: Human resources and talents! I have seen every UA employee stay strong, not showing one per cent of worry about their company's future, this is a great team work and touching moment to see the trouble, have not segregate them, but bond them closer than ever!! United will always be on my #1 carrier list for myself and my families. Thank You United for carry us over half the world and safely back again!!!