In my mind the best day to fist the RIAT is always the departure day, sure some things you only see from a long distance as they take off straight in to the air (not only helicopters do this, (stupid Euro fighter pilot's!)) but some time it's reasonable good.
The only thing that could spoil the day was the sun (which we probably had for 40 percent of the day unfortunately)
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Canon 1D MKIII 500mm+1.4 400sec/F13
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Canon 1D MKIII 500mm+1.4 2000sec/F7.1