Flightradar24 Thread Part II

nomdeboardie

Calina wrote: »

You did miss a 777 and a A320 as well as all those 737s in procession though.

Bah! (South approach?) Saw the 737s. Maybe the A320 (assuming South approach) was quiter than last pair I heard 2 days ago (maybe low wind = less interesting sounds)

Bendihorse

Lufthansa LH506 FRA-GRU turning back, squawk 7600 Lost Comm (Radio Failure)

arubex

08:55 Virgin B789 about to pass over Swords heading SE

http://fr24.com/VIR12E/56f6a9a

Reoil

Two DLH 380s currently over Ireland and an Air France one just approaching.

toonarmy1

For anyone interested a live feed of the transasia rescue operation is on youtube at the moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8GmxMGCDh4#t=6923

arubex

Reoil wrote: »

Two DLH 380s currently over Ireland and an Air France one just approaching.

1,568 seats by my calculation!

homerjay2005

Turkish Airlines Boeing 77& LA to Istanbul has descended rapidly and is diverting into London.


http://www.flightradar24.com/THY10/56f6209

AGC

It landed OK anyway.

paulhardman

arubex wrote: »

Royal Mail, for example, are very particular that domestic mail be carried on dedicated aircraft of a particular specification. They don't permit it to go as hold freight. Edit: for scheduling and security reasons I think.

Really? Didn't know that. Why do some BA planes have a Royal Mail logo on the fuselage then?

arubex

paulhardman wrote: »

Really? Didn't know that. Why do some BA planes have a Royal Mail logo on the fuselage then?

They have a contract for international mail carriage; less critical on schedules than domestic. BAW incorporated the RM crest as part of the overall livery, as they are entitled.

For domestic operations RM changed their aircraft specification a few years ago and put a few smaller players out of business ( or forced them to evolve, like Channel Express -> Jet2 ).

All domestics must now use dedicated* jet equipment with Cat II capability and something like 10 tonnes minimum payload, though they often go out much lighter. Only at Christmas do they relax that and contract some small turboprop operators to handle the surplus.

* i.e. can only convey RM payload when on RM contract flight

h3000

http://fr24.com/HBFVA/5704d3a

Pilatus PC12 squawking 7700 south west of London

Bummer1234

Busy day today so far for Flightradar notifications.

EB_2013

A Jordanian Government A318 passing over the east coast at the moment after travelling from Camp Springs heading to Luton.

I presume this is the president on the way back to Jordan.

http://fr24.com/RJA973/5707196

tom_k

An-124 over Clare at the moment.

fricatus

tom_k wrote: »

An-124 over Clare at the moment.

Caught it myself passing over Kilkenny... just looked like a 747 or A340 from my vantage point, but the whine of the engines is subtly different... one for us nerds!

weisses

fricatus wrote: »

but the whine of the engines is subtly different one for us nerds!

Nerd ..Nah Only if you told here you love the different smell

EB_2013

Jet2 752 about to land in Dublin from Leeds.

http://fr24.com/EXS118C/5741295

RebelButtMunch

Battle of britain!

http://www.flightradar24.com/LF363/5744ab0

Aircraft(HURI)
Hawker Hurricane Mk 11C

arubex

A bit late on the notification but Virgin's third B789 is approaching Drogheda now on delivery

http://fr24.com/VIR827P/5745c70

Oscar Bravo

on descent into Galway

weisses

Did not know this was a regular route with this AC

http://www.flightradar24.com/SAS951/57703f3

Ilyushin76

Adb 2788 (antonov 124) on approach to Shannon having problems with ils

A Dub in Glasgo

That AN-124 looks like it is heading right over Dublin

JCX BXC

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

That AN-124 looks like it is heading right over Dublin

Wow they have a really bad climb rate. Its not even 20,000ft yet and its near dub.

arubex

Carnacalla wrote: »

Wow they have a really bad climb rate. Its not even 20,000ft yet and its near dub.

I couldn't find info for the An-124, but the original non-M C-5 at a 'standard' TOW apparently required 35 mins to reach 25,000 ft and another eight hours ( ! ) to top-out at 38,000.

arubex

Interesting reg, N980GG, this GLEX. What does it signify?

http://fr24.com/GLEX/57834e7

Registered to Lucky Fives LLC, with two employees in Concord MA. That just made me suspicious, so...

Some digging through the associations of a director of that company reveals that the GG stands for 'Gagosian Gallery'.

Opened in 1979 in New York by Larry Gagosian, Gagosian Gallery is one of the world's foremost modern and contemporary art galleries with nine locations worldwide

http://www.gagosian.com/

New York, Athens, London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Geneva... I can see how they can afford a GLEX!

JCX BXC

Ei 693 go around at dub.

Zcott

That's the second go around today. The EI flight from AMS did the same thing. What's the weather doing?

JCX BXC

Zcott wrote: »

That's the second go around today. The EI flight from AMS did the same thing. What's the weather doing?

What I noticed about the Lufthy coming in after the EI was that it wasn't granted landing clearance until it was at 450ft. An A330 had just taken off as well, maybe the A330 was taking to the runway so it forced EI693 to go around?

The nature of the go around (hard turn before the runway) reminds me of the avasive action I have seen before on avoiding a runway with a plane on it. In fairness its hardly good for the plane on the ground to have an A320 2000ft above you with full power.

JCX BXC

Returning to Knock from Dublin after a diversion from STN this morning. Probably was fog. I can't see anything here in Clare Still.