Powerscourt today

jimbis

I was walking in knocksink wood today and could hear a plane doing what sounded like circuits out of powerscourt. It was only when I got a small gap in the trees I seen a small single engine plane doing loops, stalls, barrell rolls etc. looked and sounded like great craic.
Anyone know was there something on there today or was it just someone out having fun. Is there any regular user of that strip? I haven't heard anything about it since the accident a few years back

I have a very short video from between the trees I'll post up as soon as YouTube stops acting up

_dof_

I don't know, but if it was around 5:45 yesterday evening, there was some interference on the LiveATC Dublin feed, it was picking up some pilot doing aerobatics and commentating on it over the radio, explaining to the crowd what he was doing. Must have been doing it accidentally on one of the frequencies the Dublin LiveATC scanner picks up (or else the scanner is including some non DUB frequency). You should be able to find it on their archive.

Xpro

What colour was the aircraft?

jimbis

It was so far in the distance I couldn't tell (no glasses on). YouTube still won't upload for me but I'll try Vimeo or something.

The times match up with what _dof_ says, I had a listen to the atc from 17:30 to 18:00 but didn't hear anything.

jimbis

Oh ffs I give up trying to upload this vid, got it on Vimeo but it's somehow upside down it's not much of a video anyway, but it's sounds great

https://vimeo.com/132035208

Xpro

More then likey it was CAP 231 that operates around that area.
You can hear the powerfull engine and theres only two of those type of aircrafts around.

http://youtu.be/-qDpOCXYTYQ

jimbis

Sounds like it alright. Some noise off them.
Raging I was in a tree covered valley with no chance of seeing it.

_dof_

jimbis wrote: »

It was so far in the distance I couldn't tell (no glasses on). YouTube still won't upload for me but I'll try Vimeo or something.

The times match up with what _dof_ says, I had a listen to the atc from 17:30 to 18:00 but didn't hear anything.

It's there alright, but the time in LiveATC are UTC, so to get the 5.30 to 6pm recording you need to select the 1630-1700Z recording.

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/eidw/EIDW3-Jun-27-2015-1630Z.mp3

jimbis

_dof_ wrote: »

It's there alright, but the time in LiveATC are UTC, so to get the 5.30 to 6pm recording you need to select the 1630-1700Z recording.

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/eidw/EIDW3-Jun-27-2015-1630Z.mp3

Ah cool, got it now. Starts around 8 mins in

N7777G

It was this one:- https://flic.kr/p/cZK3kE