flightradar24

[Janine]

Yup, is that the aircraft that supply internet to places that are pretty much off the grid?

I think so. Can't see any at the moment. They are Project Loon.

 

[monzer]

I think so. Can't see any at the moment.

There's a strange balloon type thing a bit North West of Bruge. No idea what exactly it is.

 

[Janine]

There's a strange balloon type thing a bit North West of Bruge. No idea what exactly it is.

A UFO!!

 

[ivorantony]

I


I've got an amazing trip coming up.... Flight to Scilly isles and back via superyacht to Portsmouth I your interested.....

I've asked the same thing in the superyacht forums to see if there are any takers.

Please bring your plane.....!

Cheers James

Have been to St Mary’s Scilly isles a few times now, in fact I posted a you tube video a few years back of me taking off there, search the registration G-IVER and it should come up,

 

[Diabalo]

During first lockdown sitting in the garden I was watching a light aircraft flying parallel back and forwards getting closer all the time, I fired up the tracking app and it was the aircraft doing the arial mapping for Google earth.

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[63720]

Here an anthem for all frustrated flyers like myself and much respect to those who managed to achieve their dreams.

 

[Diabalo]

Why do some aircraft have limited info showing on the app

 

[ivorantony]

Because you can withhold information if you are the registered owner, but you have to formally request this,
Pretty much the same with Google earth if you don’t like what it shows you can have it blurred out,

In the UK unfortunately you can put in a registration and get the owners home address and other personal information, this is used by unscrupulous people to track aircraft to small airfield or farm strips,
This can give them engine type and hours run so rich picking for the thieves,
A Rotax 914 with low hours would sell for £15,000 and can be removed in minutes with a disc cutter,
Imagine a hanger with 20 aircraft on a farm strip in the middle of nowhere, perfect scenario for the light finger brigade,

 

[ElliesBoss]

Looks like FR24 rally is called for!

 

[cyberyacht]

I had an acquaintance who was a pilot for Missionary Aviation Fellowship - 'the third worlds favourite airline'. He said you always did a low level flyby of the strip to chase any livestock off the runway as finding a water buffalo having a kip half way along was a bit disconcerting.

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[monzer]

Bit of yank activity at their RAF Midenhall base tonight. USAF globemaster, one of those osprey twin rotor thingys and a Lockheed Martin Commando II, whatever that is have just arrived.

 

[Wee Bold Davy]

I watched the Red Arrows display at Jersey streamed live on Youtube last week and watched it on flightradar24 at the same time, a bit different!

I used to live under the flight path for aircraft approaching Glasgow Airport and often listened on my airband radio to the pilots communications with air traffic control, also I could hear aircraft over flying from Europe to the US and kept a log of what I was hearing, it was very interesting, but if I had Flightradar24 then it would have taken my hobby to a whole new level.
I've still got my airband radio and live less than a mile from Mid-Wales Airport but hearing 3 Cessnas a day going nowhere in particular is like watching paint dry

 

[Wee Bold Davy]

Why do some aircraft have limited info showing on the app

Much of it has to do with the aircraft not being on a scheduled commercial service

 

[Wee Bold Davy]

There's a strange balloon type thing a bit North West of Bruge. No idea what exactly it is.

The MOON

 

[Jamesh]

Bit of yank activity at their RAF Midenhall base tonight. USAF globemaster, one of those osprey twin rotor thingys and a Lockheed Martin Commando II, whatever that is have just arrived.

Lockheed MC-130 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Specialist 130 Hercules.

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[Garfields]

Herculean have been in and out of Oban airport last few days
Not great when last left about midnight last night when you are camped close by.
Impressive otherwise

 

[63720]

Has anyone found a way to track the Red Arrows live, I've had no luck with ether ADSB or FR24? Tia.

 

[Clarky]

Has anyone found a way to track the Red Arrows live, I've had no luck with ether ADSB or FR24? Tia.

I think they switch off their transponders when in transit.
A lot of very popular display aircraft do the same.
You often can’t follow BBMF aircraft.
I remember one of our Vulcan pilots saying that the last thing they needed when transiting at quite low level was loads of ‘puddle jumpers' trying to fly alongside to get a look and photos.
Given the very poor visibility from the cockpit and lack of any sort of collision radar they had to be very cautious about gliders etc.

 

[Richard n Ann]

Plenty of traffic down to the canaries

 

[EML]

What is so interesting about these flights? I get that military aircraft might get a bit of interest but sometimes there are 500+ people following a passenger flight to Hamburg or some such. Why is that?

I generally get up FR24 when when I get bored or have a coffee... nerds, basically. I guess that includes me. The miltary flights are generally more interesting, but I don't normally bother with them. During the Afghan pullout you could follow pretty much everything going in and out, but it looked like they mostly turned off their ADS-Bs towards the end, so it went a bit dark. There could be several thousand people following those flights. We had 4, I think, Globemasters going in and out regularly over the week, plus the odd Hercules and A400M. The yanks had about 20 Globemasters plus lots of other military stuff.

The other big draw is the distress call (7700), which may get 1000+ following, and people even follow 7600's. A hijack is a 7500, but you'd have to wait a while to find one of those.

The ones I tend to look at are the single-engine and fixed-undercarriage ocean crossings, which must take some cojones. Some of the long-distance ferry flights are like going on holiday - it can take 5 or 6 days to get a Twin Otter between the Falklands and Canada, or a few days more to get it back to base in the UK, via Greenland and Iceland.

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[Janine]

Sometimes something quirky comes up.

Yesterday, this was flying close by and it sent me down a wormhole of discovery.

There's one for sale if you have £79,500 spare https://www.ataviation.co.uk/product/christen-eagle-ii-2/

 

[Phileas Fogg]

Have been to St Mary’s Scilly isles a few times now, in fact I posted a you tube video a few years back of me taking off there, search the registration G-IVER and it should come up,

Well you wont be allowed to go again if you call them the Scilly Isles, it is the Isles of Scilly.
In 1970's I was station manager for Westward Airways flying Islanders in to the Isles of Scilly from Gatwick and Heathrow, no flightradar24 then!
I often use it as we are not far from RNAS Culdrose so a lot of helicopters that are unknown to me.

 

[ivorantony]

Good point but the call sign for St Mary’s is Scilly isles as

listed below
Beautiful place to visit in summer but perhaps not so good in the winter months

 

[Jamesh]

Sometimes something quirky comes up.

Yesterday, this was flying close by and it sent me down a wormhole of discovery.

There's one for sale if you have £79,500 spare https://www.ataviation.co.uk/product/christen-eagle-ii-2/

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[Jamesh]

Watching a Quest documentary about the Sierra Nevada triangle very interesting....

Cheers James

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[monzer]

Over 6000 people following Amsterdam to La Palma. In fact a lot of the aircraft in that area are being watched.

 

[Bonsaiman]

Over 6000 people following Amsterdam to La Palma. In fact a lot of the aircraft in that area are being watched.

Probably to do with the volcano that is erupting on La Palma

 

[monzer]

Wonder what this drone is up to. Flying at a fair old height.

 

[HarryML7]

There is a naval exercise taking place in that area at present.

 

[icantremember]

I generally get up FR24 when when I get bored or have a coffee... nerds, basically. I guess that includes me. The miltary flights are generally more interesting, but I don't normally bother with them. During the Afghan pullout you could follow pretty much everything going in and out, but it looked like they mostly turned off their ADS-Bs towards the end, so it went a bit dark. There could be several thousand people following those flights. We had 4, I think, Globemasters going in and out regularly over the week, plus the odd Hercules and A400M. The yanks had about 20 Globemasters plus lots of other military stuff.

The other big draw is the distress call (7700), which may get 1000+ following, and people even follow 7600's. A hijack is a 7500, but you'd have to wait a while to find one of those.

The ones I tend to look at are the single-engine and fixed-undercarriage ocean crossings, which must take some cojones. Some of the long-distance ferry flights are like going on holiday - it can take 5 or 6 days to get a Twin Otter between the Falklands and Canada, or a few days more to get it back to base in the UK, via Greenland and Iceland.

You may already be following., but if not Google "FlyZolo" .. 19 year old girl who recently qualified is going for the record for youngest round the world solo in a single engine craft.

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