Doesn't happen often enough 😭.

Thanks, you are welcome.

As they say, no pain no gain.

Yes.

Yeah, it's a good spot when it's open.

@@sivideoaviation that's the viewing platform

Just a point to indicate this. VA 1889 rotates at 33.55 but QF 582 sits a full minute before being cleared for take off at 37.00. Wake turbulelence et al, but is 30 seconds wait not enough because rotation of QF 582 is now a full 1 min 50 seconds after VA 1889? So a departure every 2 minutes almost, whereas, 45 seconds is the norm in the US at busy times?

Obviously if wake turbulence is an issue, we have to give the correct wake turbulence spacing for safety of the following aircraft. Wake turbulence comes with a whole host of different separation minimas which I wont cover here. Then there are plenty of other factors to consider - if a slower aircraft (eg: a F100 is considered slower than a B717 or B737) departs first and the second are following the same SID or going a similar route, we need to give the departures controller extra spacing. If they turning different directions (first turns to the west and second to the east) then even if first aircraft is slower we can use what we call tower separation and get them airborne making sure we can visually see and separate them until they have both turned their opposite directions and a radar separation exists. (Therefore in bad weather, low cloud etc, we can't do that and need to give a radar separation making sure the aircraft don't get closer than the required radar separation provided). Hence we push traffic closer on clear days compared to bad weather days. Then there is other factor of traffic crossing (arriving and departing Jandakot airport) so the departures controller will hold our traffic on the ground until they ready to accept the next aircraft in order to get the required separation airborne with that traffic. So it sometimes seems we holding aircraft unnecessary but I assure you, we getting them airborne as quick as we can according to all the rules and procedures we have to follow.

Thanks for the information.

@@christwine Thanks for the reply Chris. Yes, I get this. I once flew an Archer into the wake of a Lear Jet at Jandakot, that was fun. I was on base, while he was on long final and I wondered if I had enough separation. It was the most acrobatic final I ever made to be sure. Just saying, that I have actually heard SFO approach use the term "you better scoot, or boot" to a UA (Skywest US) RJ that I was on,being a bit slow to turn into base after ATC communication, when you could hear live ATC on United. They really pump them in quickly there with two sets of parallel cross runways. Another thing, the airlines will make quite steep turns rapidly on take off at about 200 feet to keep themselves out of each others way. It does seem Oz ATC is much more conservative, and that is not a criticism, just an observation.

Snowbird 1.... Skytraders A319, they have 2.

Are they a charter airline? I've seen them before at Perth Airport back in 2017.

Charter for Australian Government. g.co/kgs/GsPXiG

Aah, that's the airline that does the flights between Hobart and Antarctica, gotcha. Thanks for the long video, keep em going ✈️

Weekdays are propably better, lots of Fokkers going in and out all day. Between 11am and 3pm there are QF, SAA, SQ, ANZ heavies arriving. The Emirates A380 arrives between 5-5.30pm daily.

Air Band radio.