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Flightradar24 - Question

  • 13-11-2013 1:01pm
    #1
    chinwag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭


    Recently, I was using Flightradar24 on my PC to look at aircraft and their flights in progress. I was looking in particular at an EI flight coming from Lanzarote. As it was north of the island, I seemed to lose the signal from the aircraft (transponder as far as I'm aware) for no apparent reason. I checked other flights in the area and I could see their ID no prob. I tried for a while to regain the EI signal but had no luck.

    Is there a simple reason why this might happen, or did I possibly slip up somewhere myself? I've wondered about it since.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Dublinflyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Dublinflyer


    Flightradar24 takes it's feed form a number of volunteers, like myself, who have ads-b receiving equipment and make the information they gather to fr24. There could be any number of reasons for a flight to disappear ranging from a feeder issue to a problem with the website itself. It is unusual for a flight to completely disappear and not come back but not unheard of. Did you have a look on the plane finder web site as it is very similar to FR24, it's a bit more reliable IMHO. I don't think it would have been anything on your side if you could see other flights in the area. You are not actually "receiving" anything on your pc, just viewing a webpage.

    http://planefinder.net/

    Hope this helps.


  • #3
    chinwag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭chinwag


    Thanks for that Dublinflyer, I didn't know about the plane finder site but will give it a try soon.

    I probably used the wrong terminology and gave the impression that I felt I was 'receiving' a signal rather than viewing a site.

    It's quite fascinating looking at the flight progress of so many planes, good for you that you are involved in providing this info, it sounds interesting but I'm not at all familiar with such equipment.

    Thanks again.


  • #4
    fat-tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭fat-tony


    Some flights from the Canaries (Aer Lingus typically), take a track north and will seem to disappear as they head over the Atlantic and go out of range of the feeder location. I've noticed this myself. Other flights track over towards Africa and up the coast of Portugal and they don't seem to go out of range of the feeder stations.


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