DFW

[Scooterman]

A few grainy shots of what flies over my head every day, as long as they're using the south as approach!  When heading out this way, they're too high for my cheap digi to get.  I'm 12 miles SE of DFW, but close enough that you'll see two airliners lined up to land on L and R at the same time.

Looks like a MD series and a 737NG.  I think I see a winglet on the Boeing.  Oh and the helo might be a Bell 407?  Some of the local TV stations base their birds out at Grand Prairie, about a mile west.

[B777LR]

The MD-80 is American Airlines, and the 737 is a 737-800, and fitted with winglets! Oh, and its American Airlines too!

[Sentinel Chicken]

South approaches are infrequent as most of the prevailing winds in this neck of the woods are from the south and most flights will approach from the north.

Even stranger days come when we get very strong NW winds. Then they'll use the two diagonal runways 13L/31R and 13R/31L. We had two days in February that had those nonstandard ops days with aircraft landing on BOTH 31L and 31R- landing on 31L isn't all that odd, but to have aircraft landing on 31L is- they have to come in over the the west parallels and I've only seen it a few times in the last 10 years. It's so unusual I've seen small crowds form in the parking lot of the West Air Cargo complex and the Simuflite Center to watch the landings.

Usually the crosswinds across the parallels are too strong and it'll make 13R/31L look like a carrier deck with all the planes lining up for takeoff.