Flightradar24 (and other trackers) Thread Part IV

millb

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=109799599&postcount=7685

Bioflight P68 OY-SNS coming towards the east coast (s wicklow n wexford)- looks like doing surveys

Royal Legend

Just seen two lufthansa cargo jets following each other, is that unusual

Gael23

What level of subscription do people have? My gold is up for renewal but I’m thinking silver is enough for way less money

dkd21

RCH340 a C5 Galaxy taking a quite large eastbound detour around Ireland also initiated it just on entry to Irish controlled airspace

EchoIndia

dkd21 wrote: »

RCH340 a C5 Galaxy taking a quite large eastbound detour around Ireland also initiated it just on entry to Irish controlled airspace

Must not have had diplomatic clearance. USAF C-5s and C-17s are a relatuely rare sight over Ireland these days in any case.

dkd21

EchoIndia wrote: »

Must not have had diplomatic clearance. USAF C-5s and C-17s are a relatuely rare sight over Ireland these days in any case.

I had thought the same , must have chanced their arm anyways

EchoIndia

dkd21 wrote: »

I had thought the same , must have chanced their arm anyways

I'd say they knew but had to keep to filed oceanic track and then re-route once they left oceanic airspace (which operates under procedural rules and outside radar coverage.

d15ude

Hey, aviation noob here.
But doesn't this one look a bit strange?

GBX

d15ude wrote: »

Hey, aviation noob here.
But doesn't this one look a bit strange?

There's a of calibration and surveying flights going on. Perfect time with less commercial flights.

RadioRetro

EchoIndia wrote: »

Must not have had diplomatic clearance. USAF C-5s and C-17s are a relatuely rare sight over Ireland these days in any case.

This intrigued me yesterday... a C130 overflight.

Suckit

Anyone know why this is going back an forth so many times?
https://www.flightradar24.com/PHLAW/248fec93

LXFlyer

This has been asked already in this thread.

It’s doing an aerial survey.

Growler!!!

Suckit wrote: »

Anyone know why this is going back an forth so many times?
https://www.flightradar24.com/PHLAW/248fec93

Its a survey aircraft from the AFOC company. Heres some of the details of their work from their website.

http://afoc.nl/web/services.php

Suckit

LXFlyer wrote: »

This has been asked already in this thread.

It’s doing an aerial survey.

Growler!!! wrote: »

Its a survey aircraft from the AFOC company. Heres some of the details of their work from their website.

http://afoc.nl/web/services.php

Thanks.

HTCOne

dkd21 wrote: »

I had thought the same , must have chanced their arm anyways

They’re not allowed in the territorial airspace (within 12nm of the coast) without diplomatic clearance. Controlled airspace beyond the 12nm from a country is delegated by ICAO and is actually international airspace, so they’re perfectly entitled to be in that airspace regardless.

What often happens is they flight plan further north into Scottish but get a re-route south by Gander or Shanwick into Shannon which doesn’t ideally suit them. It’s always THEM that tell US (or Shanwick) they can’t enter the territorial airspace and need a re-route, as sometimes they have the clearance and sometimes they don’t.

blindsider

ADBS Exchange has a U2 over Birmingham UK now.....

RadioRetro

blindsider wrote: »

ADBS Exchange has a U2 over Birmingham UK now.....

There was one over the Irish Sea earlier.

crushproof

Looks like all the recreation pilots are out and about for the first time in a long time in England. Southern skies are full of them!

Finnair A330 on it's way in.

scudzilla

Aer Lingus A330 just taken off for Beijing, guessing to pick up more cheap PPE equipment

colbarr

scudzilla wrote: »

Aer Lingus A330 just taken off for Beijing, guessing to pick up more cheap PPE equipment

First time in this thread?

scudzilla

colbarr wrote: »

First time in this thread?

No, is it yours?

Oscar Bravo

AN - 124 due Shannon at 1420. Reg RA-82043

gaz wac

Anyone know what the reason could be for a small Cessna Reg PH-LAW non stop circling and not landing atm?

Irish Steve

gaz wac wrote: »

Anyone know what the reason could be for a small Cessna Reg PH-LAW non stop circling and not landing atm?

It was posted about 10 posts back, it's doing survey work, the absence of a lot of commercial traffic is making it easier to facilitate access to controlled air space that would normally be much more restricted. A lot of flights over Ireland and the UK being performed at the moment.

Growler!!!

Bsal wrote: »

PH-LAW over the house today, must be hard work in that wind you can visually see the wings rocking all over the place every time they pass by

faoiarvok wrote: »

I’d assume there’s some sort of gyro stabilisation on the camera, though who knows what the limits of that are.

Growler!!! wrote: »

If its a dedicated Digital camera or LIDAR scanner then it will be gyro stabilised. Having flown survey for an Irish company in the past, our limits where plus/minus 5 degrees in pitch and roll. I can't recall the speed limitation but it was based on ground speed. Camera system could cope with up to 20 degree drift in a crosswind situation.

Sorties were flown at 8000 feet (FL080) if the weather was good enough. At 3000 feet if not but the amount of lines flown was usually trebled.

Suckit wrote: »

Anyone know why this is going back an forth so many times?
https://www.flightradar24.com/PHLAW/248fec93

LXFlyer wrote: »

This has been asked already in this thread.

It’s doing an aerial survey.

Growler!!! wrote: »

Its a survey aircraft from the AFOC company. Heres some of the details of their work from their website.

http://afoc.nl/web/services.php

gaz wac wrote: »

Anyone know what the reason could be for a small Cessna Reg PH-LAW non stop circling and not landing atm?

Survey flight taking advantage of the good weather.

x567

Funny...
https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/status/1265641616787767302

Board Walker

Funny oul path. Took off from Waterford.

This is just north of Newcastle west in Limerick

10-10-20

Four AWACS sitting over Europe just now:

NATO02 looping over SW France: https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4d03c6
ROXAN25 looping over Central France: https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3b77dd
NATO06 was looping over central North Sea: https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4d03c4
NATO31 was looping over central North Sea, now looping over Scotland: https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43c3a4

joujoujou

Is that one owned by PSNI?

https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4064bd

Some loops!