Hello everyone, I’m Jaysen. Former USAF Crew Chief on the KC-135 and RC-135 (1997-2005), and worked for Boeing on the 787 and 737 production lines (2011-2019). I’ve been an aviation enthusiast since about 1982, and doing aviation photography since about 2003. I discovered FlightAware in 2008, and it has been an indispensable asset for my aviation needs.
I also run an amateur photography group called Sterling Aerospace Photography, formerly known as Midwest Tail Chasers.
Well, we’re a small group. A group of one, actually.
Yeah, I’m the group at this point.
Since late 2021, I’ve resided near the Idaho County Airport (if you couldn’t tell by my pics here so far). It’s a very quiet airport most months of the year, but gets relatively busy in the summer months. It’s certainly not the large and multiple airfields I’m used to being around, but it’s a nice change.
I look forward to interacting with you and seeing your photos when I click on a specific flight!
Welcome aboard! Retired from Network Engineering and gathering FlightAware data here in central Florida as a way to stay challenged and interact with interesting people from all around the world.
Thank you, sir! I basically retired a year and a half ago myself, thanks to an old back injury from '02. My camera is my means of keeping my sanity partially intact nowadays…though that’s a bit more difficult in the winter months out here.
Hoping to hit up some SeaFair action at BFI in about a week, and had some fun at SKA last month. Other than that, just trying to find affordable ways to entertain myself as I get older.
Hence, here I am with my first FlightAware post after being here sixteen years. HAHA
Thanks for that! I’m sure even with some 25 years of aerospace experience, I’ll be throwing an occasional dumb question or statement out now and then myself.
Seems a fairly good bunch here, so I’m looking forward to it!
Welcome to the pleasuredome, here’s a still active IT guy and private pilot from the other side of the pond. Living near EHAM it’s a nice hobby alongside the flying and spotting.
With a lot of different setups I tend to keep myself busy in my spare time (sometimes a rare commodity) and have some decent numbers of flights on the ADSB receivers.
Remember, there are no stupid questions so fire away when you do need to know something. It’s a nice bunch overhere that will try to assist you in anyway possible.
AMS would’ve been a nice outing while I was over that way. Best I did though when I wasn’t at Mildenhall or Lakenheath was mostly STN and LHR. I started with a Fuji, then went to a 400D. Have been slowly upgrading over time.
Using a 7D with 70-200 and 100-400 now, but still always trying to learn.
This is the guy that has been kind enough to guide me through my early days of Linux flight training and I have a lot to be thankful for with Tom’s support. He’s a good man with lots of knowledge to share. I expect I will be leaning on him for some time to come if he is willing.
I have 2 70D’s with 28-135, 70-200, 70-300, 100-400 and some variations between that. At AMS one runway is a 28-135 fine for widebody and then you might need the 100-400 minutes later. ATC sometimes runs sometimes a game of “ runway roulette “ as we call it so they do surprise you sometimes with runway assignments for incoming traffic. Oh well that’s the fun in the game
Oops, apparently I forgot to hit reply directly to you and then angered the automatic discussion monitor when I tried to sort it. lol
Nice! I’ve heard pretty good things about the 70D. Until I come into about $20k, I’ll have to stick to the 7D with the 100-400 for air shots and the 400D with either the 70-200 or the 28-70 for ground stuff. HAHA
My original 400D died two years ago (not long after I gave it to my kids, honestly lol) so I replaced it last month so they could learn to shoot DSLR with me. Despite its relatively low resolution, it’ll make a good secondary camera for ground shots. Debating whether to use that for any air-to-air I may encounter in the future, or to be brave and actually switch lenses on the 7D for such an adventure.
I’d probably switch lenses though, as the 7D produces better quality images overall…as long as the photographer doesn’t suck, anyway.
so fire away when you do need to know something. It’s a nice bunch overhere that will try to assist you in anyway possible.