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This time another car…

Car photography continues.

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Car photography, take two

Last Wednesday I did some location scouting with Mikko (see his photos too), and the following two photos resulted. Now I just need more cars to shoot, with same car this gets a bit boring in the long run…

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Visiting Helsinki-Vantaa ATC

On May 5th, I visited Helsinki-Vantaa’s air traffic control facilities, a visit organized by SVIL.

We were given a short presentation about how air traffic control works at Helsinki-Vantaa. After the presentation we first visited the radar control room and then in the control tower.

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Views from the radar control room. The current Eurocat radar system has been in use since 2000 and is planned to have an update in the near future.

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Some additional tools used by air traffic controllers. From the top: ground radar, maestro(system used to calculate traffic flows) and WODA (displays current weather, ATIS and runway usage etc.)

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Views from the control tower. Actual tower positions are at lower level and upper level has the ground and clearance delivery positions.

I also couldn’t help my self to take few photos of aircraft when offered such a good vantage point.

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And lastly, a view towards the non-schengen terminal Finnair’s heavy birds waiting to depart to Mumbai, Bangkok and Beijing. As you can see there’s huge construction going on.

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