Low flying bridish airways plane fly circuit around castletroy

irbx

Hey guy anyone know what the flying so low and slowly ? I presume it for Shannon it looped around going back over the city again going for Shannon.

Henry Ford III

It was a new A350 doing circuits at Shannon.

bazz26

Shannon airport makes an excellent facility for both plane testing and pilot training. It's runway is wide/long enough for big planes and is of international standard while it also has quiet periods to allow training/testing. I remember as a child watching the Air France Concorde do regular pilot training there including dust offs where it would touch down and then take off again in the one run.

washman3

irbx wrote: »

Hey guy anyone know what the flying so low and slowly ? I presume it for Shannon it looped around going back over the city again going for Shannon.

Check out Flightrader24; Live Flight Tracker and you can watch all the trial runs it did today over Clare,Limerick,South Galway and North Kerry.
Its been virtually on the go all day long with an odd touchdown, probably for refueling.

washman3

washman3 wrote: »

Check out Flightrader24; Live Flight Tracker and you can watch all the trial runs it did today over Clare,Limerick,South Galway and North Kerry.
Its been virtually on the go all day long with an odd touchdown, probably for refueling.

I love that app. Can spend all day watching it. Better again when I know someone is on a flight.

I clearly live a very exciting life

gozunda

irbx wrote:

Low flying bridish airways plane fly circuit around castletroy

Bridish?

Eire-Dearg

I noticed this too over Birdhill so got it up on Flight Radar to see it was looping back into Shannon. Assumed there was an issue on board, didn't realise it was going around all day.

Mango Joe

gozunda wrote: »

Bridish?

I'll never forget the day that young wan Bríd got her pilots license....

bazz26 wrote: »

Shannon airport makes an excellent facility for both plane testing and pilot training. It's runway is wide/long enough for big planes and is of international standard while it also has quiet periods to allow training/testing. I remember as a child watching the Air France Concorde do regular pilot training there including dust offs where it would touch down and then take off again in the one run.

I read somewhere that Shannon is often picked for training runs where they want to assess handling with a strong crosswind on the runway...... Presumably the flat terrain/shannon estuary combined with our lovely weather helps with this.

phill106

bazz26 wrote: »

Shannon airport makes an excellent facility for both plane testing and pilot training. It's runway is wide/long enough for big planes and is of international standard while it also has quiet periods to allow training/testing. I remember as a child watching the Air France Concorde do regular pilot training there including dust offs where it would touch down and then take off again in the one run.

So long that its a designated emergency landing runway for space shuttles.

Phileas Frog

phill106 wrote: »

So long that its a designated emergency landing runway for space shuttles.

Except that there is no such thing as a space shuttle anymore.

Insect Overlord

Phileas Frog wrote: »

Except that there is no such thing as a space shuttle anymore.

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