JFK runway use Jan 30 2006 and its effect on LI

Just WOW. I almost crashed the car on the way to the office at 12:16 PM today.

was anyone working in the Farmingdale area today? I was just floored with the way the sky looked.


It was crystal clear out, not a cloud in the sky. And right over what looked like the intersection of rt 109 and Pinelawn Rd, I saw what looked like a

Lufthansa 777, maybe 8000 ft up, heading Northeast, I assume to JFK and

passing overhead, heading northWEST, an unidentifiable A 340. I'd guess they have no more than 5000 miles separation since their relative size was very similar.


It was a surreal phot- op but the whole day presented such pics. Anyone catch that today?

Didn't get any pix, but I was at our Hickville subsidiary in the morning, and heading back to Melville, it looked like an AF 777 was inbound, along with a red-tailed 747, couldn't make out the markings.

When JFK uses arrivals on either 22L or R the arrivals will pass over the south shore and up over Seaford, Farmingdale, and then turn final into 22R or L . At the same time any departures on the same runway they will climb out over Five Towns then turn left bringing them again over seaford and farmingdale but at a much higher altitude. Living near Bethpage,I see them cross paths all the time. What make it interesting is the occasional arrival heading north into FRG that is a lot lower then the JFK traffic.

Lufthansa doesn't have a 777, so I'm guessing Air France as well. Maybe gulf Air?

or an LH 330

Lufty 777???

CO (from EWR) and Lufty look verrry close at 8K!

maybe Ari has it, an LH 330 perhaps.


Just kills me though, it was such a perfect scissors crossing of the one about 300 feet above the other. and with a crsytal clear sky too!

shame it changed so dramatically though!

so I'll pretty much expect that anytime the 22s are both being used?