Ultimate Planespotting Guide to Madeira!

Join us for a very special day out planespotting from several locations around Madeira’s Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport with Pedro who runs @MadeiraAirport Spotting. The ultimate expert on Madeira Airport gives us the full deluxe tour, showing us the best places to watch planes from all over and even underneath the runway. See dozens of takeoffs and landings as we drive all around this corner of this beautiful island. Also: the best runway-side bar, all about the massive pillars that hold up the engineering marvel that is the extended portion of the runway, try some pastel de nata and some probably very dangerous poncha, do a little backcountry hike (but also next to the runway), see the mountaintop vantage point that makes it look like A320s are landing on an aircraft carrier, and get a unique level of insight and access into everything about this incredible airport. Bonus points if you can correctly identify the number of animals that make cameos in this video – it’s a surprisingly high number. Aircraft spotted include: 737NG, 737MAX, A320CEO, A320NEO, ATR-72, CRJ-1000, Cessna Citation Link to follow Madeira Airport Spotting: @MadeiraAirport Some crazy Airberlin moments: SECTIONS: 00:00 Welcome to Madeira 00:31 Spot #1 Meet Pedro 02:11 Driving under the runway 03:45 Spot #2 06:14 The bar next to the runway 07:58 Spot #3 – the mountaintop 09:48 Aircraft carrier landing 10:52 Spot #4 12:18 Spot #5 13:06 Some captains are crazier than others 13:46 Airberlin was the craziest 14:12 Spot #6 14:31 Spot #7 15:02 Poncha break 16:38 Spot #8 17:48 Spot #9 19:16 Fruits of Madeira 19:57 Spot #10 pastel de nata 21:31 History of the runway extension 22:53 Spot #11 24:21 Back at spot #1 25:08 Spotting happy hour #Madeira #Planespotting #Funchal