A.380 over Ireland

TheAnswer

Thought I'd bagged my 1st 380 in Irish airspace yesterday, D-AIMB passed just north of Drogheda according to FlightRadar24 yet on Casper it shows it as D-AIKL, anyone any idea why its showing as two different aircraft?

N7777G

TheAnswer wrote: »

Thought I'd bagged my 1st 380 in Irish airspace yesterday, D-AIMB passed just north of Drogheda according to FlightRadar24 yet on Casper it shows it as D-AIKL, anyone any idea why its showing as two different aircraft?

Lufthansa A380 D-AIMB operating flight LH400 (FRA/JFK) did indeed pass westbound over Drogheda @ 1215 yesterday and was clearly visible from south Dublin.

TheAnswer

N7777G wrote: »

Lufthansa A380 D-AIMB operating flight LH400 (FRA/JFK) did indeed pass westbound over Drogheda @ 1215 yesterday and was clearly visible from south Dublin.

Cheers N7, I photo'd it and N780UA running parallel even though I must be 35-40 miles away. It passed just south of Tipperary eastbound at 08:30ish this morning.

Qantas

Indeed it did you have to love this weather


Here it is passing under United 951 Boeing 772
Sorry bout quality bit far away

TheAnswer

Thanks Qantas for the pic, how far away and what lens?

Qantas

About 25 miles as the crow flies with a canon 75-300

Just looking over europe now and Emirates have 5 inflight at the one time quiet impressive,7 in total over europe 2 from Singapore and 1 from Lufthansa

whyulittle

There was one on Casper Dusseldorf heading towards the English east coast, before disappearing just a minute or two ago. Heading our way.

Visible on Casper UK now.

whyulittle

Heading towards Drogheda now.

TheAnswer

Qantas wrote: »

About 25 miles as the crow flies with a canon 75-300

Just looking over europe now and Emirates have 5 inflight at the one time quiet impressive,7 in total over europe 2 from Singapore and 1 from Lufthansa

Even at that distance your pics aren't bad, what body are you using? I'm using a 450D with a 70-300is which is supposedly superior to the 75-300 and my (long distance/high altitude) pics would be fuzzier than that.:(

TheAnswer

Seeing as this thread is developing into a Hi-Alt one, what's with Martinair?? I snapped a Martinair 767 yesterday morning and this morning going over and neither showed up on any of the radar sites! Does that mean it's transponder is switched off?

St. Leibowitz

Don't know specifically about Martinair, but they may be contracted to NATO.

With the SBS1, usually military and their contracted aircraft only report callsign and altitude, and not report position and heading. So you know that C5's, C17's, Omni Air and Evergreen etc. aircraft are somewhere in a ~200 mile radius, but not exactly where.

mayotom

They fly over Ireland Regularly with Emirates on the New York and Toronto Routes as discussed here A380's in Ireland

The Lufthansa route has only been operating for a couple of weeks

highlydebased

TheAnswer wrote: »

Seeing as this thread is developing into a Hi-Alt one, what's with Martinair?? I snapped a Martinair 767 yesterday morning and this morning going over and neither showed up on any of the radar sites! Does that mean it's transponder is switched off?

Its to do with Mode C and Mode S transponder. They'd be in alot of trouble if their xpndr was turned off.

TheAnswer

UAE 380 over Bristol now heading for NY, looks like its going to take a NE track up over Wexford /Carlow/Kildare! If it does, I may get a Pic.

Boo, looks like she's heading due west now.

Qantas

TheAnswer wrote: »

Even at that distance your pics aren't bad, what body are you using? I'm using a 450D with a 70-300is which is supposedly superior to the 75-300 and my (long distance/high altitude) pics would be fuzzier than that.:(

Yea same body aswell 450D lense is Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM

dowlingm

Emirates would normally use a smaller aircraft into Toronto daily but the government of Canada is p!ssy about giving them more than 3 flights a week so the A380 was switched off some New York runs to meet the need. I don't know if the double bridges at YYZ are used or not.

Oscar Bravo

A380 over Ireland now.Its F-HPJA.Over Tullamore area around now.37,700ft.

mayotom

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

A380 over Ireland now.Its F-HPJA.Over Tullamore area around now.37,700ft.

(D-AIME)DLH-404 Frankfurt to JFK is over Mayo at the moment..

irishgeo

mayotom wrote: »

(D-AIME)DLH-404 Frankfurt to JFK is over Mayo at the moment..

can this been seen at a certain time every day/week.

Andrew33

irishgeo wrote: »

can this been seen at a certain time every day/week.

Yup, twice a day as far as I know, Emirates as well, not to mention Air France. I've managed to photo all three operators 380's over Ireland though they usually pass well to the south or north of Dublin.

irishgeo

Andrew33 wrote: »

Yup, twice a day as far as I know, Emirates as well, not to mention Air France. I've managed to photo all three operators 380's over Ireland though they usually pass well to the south or north of Dublin.

i am in achill, co mayo most USA flight pass over us as they generally fly past the radar beacon near belmullet. i just need a time and to get the binos out.

TheAnswer

irishgeo wrote: »

i am in achill, co mayo most USA flight pass over us as they generally fly past the radar beacon near belmullet. i just need a time and to get the binos out.

It's hard to give you a definite time or track, sometimes they'll use a track 40-50miles south of Cork, other times they're well to the north and an Air France and an Emirates passed directly over my house (south Dublin) in the past couple of weeks, generally the westbounds seem to pass over Ireland anytime between 11am and 2pm and eastbounds usually between 7am and 10am but I've seen the 380's well outside these times as well. Go to www.flightradar24.com. Happy hunting!

SNAKEDOC

does the a380 go by manchester for canada or turn around there and head for uae. one is short while from manchester now