What plane is that up there??

Steyr

This will help ya!

http://www.radarvirtuel.com/



Merry Christmas!
Dave.

Our man in Havana

Good old Air Canada.

Good to see that there are loads of flights today.

Jammyc

Even spotted the USAF over Hungary on this last night around 2 am!
See attatchment.

Plowman

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Steyr

Jammyc wrote: »

Even spotted the USAF over Hungary on this last night around 2 am!
See attatchment.

I see 2 of them there!

Steyr

Plowman wrote: »

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Your very welcome.

Jammyc

Fantastic stuff. Thanks a million Steyr

Bodhisopha

Cool, i'm always wondering where the planes i see might be going.

Thanks.

Jammyc

There they are there now!

One just passing over southern England, the other East Germany.

I'd love to know what they're upta!:pac:

refusetolose

looks like one will fly over dublin soon enough on the way to new york from belguim

edit: maybe not so close to dublin but somewhere near it

EchoIndia

Jammyc wrote: »

There they are there now!

One just passing over southern England, the other East Germany.

I'd love to know what they're upta!:pac:

These may be civilian aircraft under contract to the USAF and using the latter's "Reach" callsign.

As to what they're "up to", the USAF has a large force of transport aircraft and for as long as I can remember these have been active in European and of course Irish airspace, on transatlantic and intra-European transport duties. No great surprise when you consider the major overseas military commitments which the US has at the moment.

Jammyc

EchoIndia wrote: »

These may be civilian aircraft under contract to the USAF and using the latter's "Reach" callsign.

As to what they're "up to", the USAF has a large force of transport aircraft and for as long as I can remember these have been active in European and of course Irish airspace, on transatlantic and intra-European transport duties. No great surprise when you consider the major overseas military commitments which the US has at the moment.

Cheers. Was just curious is all.:D

CaptainSkidmark

that link entertained me all the way to dublin last night lol

pclancy

Nice on Steyr! Good find.

andy_g

usaf military airlift command about to pass over rosslare harbour in a few mins. ok guys she's headed for shannon callsign REACH 476

Our man in Havana

South of cahir now.

ian_m

andy_g wrote: »

usaf military airlift command about to pass over rosslare harbour in a few mins. ok guys she's headed for shannon callsign REACH 476

I didn't think you would be able to see military traffic...

EchoIndia

andy_g wrote: »

usaf military airlift command about to pass over rosslare harbour in a few mins. ok guys she's headed for shannon callsign REACH 476

= N351AX B767-300 of Omni International

paddydriver

Another Gem from boards.ie...

Can see many hours sat out in the garden with the kids trying to identify what planes are overhead. We are right below one of the flight paths into Dublin.

Thanks OP.

diverdriver

They're not military. They're civilian aircraft chartered to transport US miltary back and forth from Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere no doubt. There are often several flights a day into Shannon.

biblio

I had a look at that site last night, there was quite a few DHL and FedEx planes out in the wee small hours mostly 767s and MD-11s

Our man in Havana

Peak time for those guys.

Essexboy

Several jet aircraft flew over North Sligo at intervals this afternoon, all headed West.

I counted a dozen before going indoors and saw more later on. We do not see many aircraft in this area so this number is striking.

My first thought was they were American military planes but I thought they usually went via Shannon. Can anyone suggest what they were?

Steyr

Essexboy wrote: »

Several jet aircraft flew over North Sligo at intervals this afternoon, all headed West.

I counted a dozen before going indoors and saw more later on. We do not see many aircraft in this area so this number is striking.

My first thought was they were American military planes but I thought they usually went via Shannon. Can anyone suggest what they were?

Could be anything especially US and European Haeavies ( 777, 747 ETC )

searescue

Not as many ryanairs showing up as I hear on the scanner?

SR

Danbo!

How accurate is this?

I see planes along the taxiway at dublin, so it would seem quite accurate, but this Avro seems to be heading for RWY 11.

Plowman

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Steyr

Stee wrote: »

How accurate is this?

I see planes along the taxiway at dublin, so it would seem quite accurate, but this Avro seems to be heading for RWY 11.

Perhaps in a circuit to land?

diverdriver

Essexboy, the routings change by the day to take advantage of favourable winds etc. Usually a lot of this traffic passes over the Galway area. Sometimes they actually appear in formation, they're so close. But it's all civilian or mostly so. They obviously were a bit further north that day.

Essexboy

diverdriver wrote: »

Essexboy, the routings change by the day to take advantage of favourable winds etc. Usually a lot of this traffic passes over the Galway area. Sometimes they actually appear in formation, they're so close. But it's all civilian or mostly so. They obviously were a bit further north that day.

Thanks.
It was the numbers and formation that surprised me - we don't normally see anything like that up here - but I know nothing about aircraft traffic.

refusetolose

anyone notice some planes go missing?

i was tracking one that was heading my way a few minutes ago but then it just disappeared

katnia

Hi

Is this radar real? If so, where does the info come from & how do we have free access to this in an age of terrorist attacks etc, I'm not trying to disbelieve it, I find it interesting but can someone give me a little bit of info on where this data is coming from etc & how do we have access to it.

I'm the curious type!

Thanks

FlutterinBantam

erm... we do live in the free world, last I heard.

EchoIndia

The site is hosted in another country and is fed by people uploading data from their SBS receivers. Despite the amount of data provided on the site, I find it hard to see what additional benefits it would afford to terrorists. The USA allows similar information, from the FAA itself, to be displayed on the Flightaware website (presumably for a suitable charge). If we decided to stop doing everything that conceivably might have terrorist applications, I think we might as well all wind the clock back 50 years or so.

katnia

Thanks for this EchoIndia, I'm not being ultra paranoid or anything like that, it's just I didn't know where this info came from, so your reply has been very useful thanks for this. Is it possible that this doesn't record all the planes coming & going as they do. Please forgive me ignorance if this is a stupid question.

I'm interested in aviation, although I'm an absolute beginner in this respect as you may have guessed, I am trying to learn though.

Thanks for your insightful reply FlutterinBantam, that type of answer is so needed..

EchoIndia

katnia wrote: »

Is it possible that this doesn't record all the planes coming & going as they do. Please forgive me ignorance if this is a stupid question.

Correct - not all flights are captured, and in any case the data displayed on the site is only as good as whatever users supply to it. Hence some areas/countries are devoid of or have incomplete coverage.

Steyr

katnia wrote: »

Hi

Is this radar real? If so, where does the info come from & how do we have free access to this in an age of terrorist attacks etc, I'm not trying to disbelieve it, I find it interesting but can someone give me a little bit of info on where this data is coming from etc & how do we have access to it.

I'm the curious type!

Thanks

Hi there, the realtime flight tracker ( http://www.radarvirtuel.com/ ) gets its Data via people sharing their data via their sbs-1 and radarbox contributions. You can only pick this information up when an Aircraft transmits thats how the SBS1 and Radarbox picks it up. Also you wont get Military Traffic on it but you will see the USAF Callsign "REACH/RCH" Followed by a number EG "RCH123" that will 99.9% of the time be an Omni Air International Aircraft as they are on contract to the US Military.

katnia

thanks for your replies folks, great help

Steyr

**ALSO**

The odd time you will see Irish Coast Guard S61N Helicopters on the link below

http://www.shipais.com/showship.php?map=Ireland&mmsi=311593000

They will show up on screen as:

Shannon: R115
Dublin: R116
Waterford: R117
Sligo: R118

On the left of the screen click the drop down menu where it says Ireland and choose a place of interest to you. If you move your mouse over any coloured object it will tell you what it is at a glance and for more detail if you click on any coloured object it will give allknown info in a box on the left of the screen.

mwrf

That's a fantastic resource, thanks for posting

Steyr

Your welcome.

Danbo!

Steyr wrote: »

Perhaps in a circuit to land?

At that altitude?!?

It came up over south dublin and it looked like it was turning too late for rwy 10, so it caught my eye. It disappeared after that screenshot though. I assume some are being tracked more accurately than others.

Anyway, cheers OP, this got me through a long first day back to work today..

vulcan57

Is this fella lost??? (the highlighted in orange) Heading SW across Ireland and look at the info! From Manchester to Dalaman?

Podman

vulcan57 wrote: »

Is this fella lost??? (the highlighted in orange) Heading SW across Ireland and look at the info! From Manchester to Dalaman?

Maybe it's his first day?

Steyr

Shannon Stopover:pac:

Podman

Thank you for the radarvirtuel link

Steyr

Your very welcome Chompy.:)

Steyr

Here is what the more detailed version looks like via AirNav Systems utilising Radarbox 3D Software:



Pretty cool:cool:

FlutterinBantam

katnia wrote: »

Thanks for this EchoIndia, I'm not being ultra paranoid or anything like that, it's just I didn't know where this info came from, so your reply has been very useful thanks for this. Is it possible that this doesn't record all the planes coming & going as they do. Please forgive me ignorance if this is a stupid question.

I'm interested in aviation, although I'm an absolute beginner in this respect as you may have guessed, I am trying to learn though.

Thanks for your insightful reply FlutterinBantam, that type of answer is so needed..

I didn't realise.

Please accept my apologies, that was an insensitive and stupid reply.


Sorry.

highlydebased

vulcan57 wrote: »

Is this fella lost??? (the highlighted in orange) Heading SW across Ireland and look at the info! From Manchester to Dalaman?

Sometimes the flight numbers get mixed up or lost in translation somewhere and hence it all appears wrong.....Plenty more of em there!

EchoIndia

vulcan57 wrote: »

Is this fella lost??? (the highlighted in orange) Heading SW across Ireland and look at the info! From Manchester to Dalaman?

I would treat the stated linkage between flight numbers and routes with a bit of scepticism, especially where charter companies are concerned, as these are liable to change with the seasons.