Sorry It's been a bit quiet lately as I have just returned from two weeks in the Greek island of Crete. We were in fact, located about 7 miles out on the approach to Heraklion airports runway 27. I have to say, I have never seen a holiday airport as busy as this. At times there were arrivals every few minutes, but at least I was treated to a great view of the wide variety of aircraft that operate in and out of this airport.
Everything from regional turboprops such as ATR's and Dash 8's which appear to be operated on flights from other islands such as Rhodes to the usual Airbus and Boeing models carrying holidaymakers. I think there was also some Tupolevs (154's?) carrying Russian and/or Ukrainian holidaymakers
I didn't dare take my radio scanner (Uniden Bearcat BR330T) as the Greeks don't look to kindly on that sort of thing if they should discover it, but I'm sure it would have made interesting listening. That's all I have time for right now, but if you have any info you would like to share regarding holiday airports or otherwise please hit the comments button, thanks. Mark.
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