The little Airbus, seen ahead of the mighty 744s of BA, (G-BNLI and G-BNLM), heads in a completely different direction to that of the runway! As can be seen by the other aircraft there's an obvious sidewind component today to deal with. The Air Malta has left behind an enormous wake as can be seen in the cloud behind it. Spectacular effect to capture and witness.

A Cool Example of Wake Vortex . . .

Cool

One of these almost got me at Nashville. My turbo Saratoga was tossed like a ping pong ball, even though I only touched the fringe of the wake turbulance. It only takes once . . . . never again will I get close to the "heavies".