Airbus A340-600 (EC-JCY)

Great Shot Brian!

WOW! Super shot! Beautiful sleek bird

Nice Shot Brian!

Thanks guys.

Well positioned, Brian.
The nose is still in full flare, all the main wheels are on the ground but the tyre smoke hasn't passed under the tail yet.
And the thrust reversers are deployed already.
You got it all.

Beautiful Photo and my favorite Airbus

Some photos just have an immediately recognizable quality. I get the weekly digest email and the Flightaware page loads a bunch of thumbnail pictures. I always do a quick scan to decide which photo I want to look at first. This photo grabbed my attention out of all the fighter jets, commercial airliners and oddballs.

Real pro picture Brian!! well seen.

Impressive shot, great timing and position, thanks Brian.

Seems like a high flare to me? Is that normal? Belly almost touching.

Nice picture

Brillliant picture/

Picture was damn good, but the PILOT was better. Come on, gives us a break...

I agree it is a great picture. However, this Captain would have failed his Line Check. Never, Never should the reversers be deployed with the nose wheel off of the ground! If an outboard reverser fails to deploy when reverse thrust is applied the airplane will be in the grass within 3 seconds. This is old aerodynamic braking that stopped when airplanes were equipped with thrust reversers.

Robert Petrasek wins the prize!

Brilliant shot Brian!
Looks to me by the position of the aircraft that it was possibly taken from the Rennaisance Hotel? Through the window? No?

Regarding Robert Pretrasek's below comment, I feel that deployment of the reversers upon touchdown is authorized by the manufacturer based on my experience flying as a passenger, and, having experienced the pilot's advancing the throttles almost all the time prior to nosewheel touchdown.
Furthermore, my private pilot and USAF training re mechanical braking was a minimum 60% of slowing the aircraft over the 40% thrust reversers.
Petrasek wrote:
I agree it is a great picture. However, this Captain would have failed his Line Check. Never, Never should the reversers be deployed with the nose wheel off of the ground! If an outboard reverser fails to deploy when reverse thrust is applied the airplane will be in the grass within 3 seconds. This is old aerodynamic braking that stopped when airplanes were equipped with thrust reversers.