Phoenix-Sky Harbor, AZ, USA - 24/01/2009

Armed with some tips on where to take pictures from at Sky Harbor we headed down to Cutter Aviation, where we'd heard there was a balcony looking out onto the apron. A quick ask at the desk provided the information that it'd been closed, so we moved on to the next spot on the list - some elevated wasteland off 40th Street.

Separating us from the airport was a dry river bed but the location looked great. The only problem was that the sun was obscured by the cloud. It didn't take long to clear though and before we knew it we were shooting US Airways after US Airways, with the odd Southwest and others thrown in.

Around 1100 the runways were switched - not because of a change of wind, but simply to minimise the noise disruption on the city. It didn't really work for us, with the majority of traffic now landing on the runway on the other side of the terminal building.

We called it a day slightly earlier than planned and made our way to Gateway, via a brunch stop at Jack In The Box :-)