mikel97 wrote: » Its N2731G (prob CIA) yes Shannon
Built in 1969 😮
I doubt if there's very much older than that in regular service.
That's a ferry flight callisign. I assume it's for painting.
Wonder what's the reason.
Initial issue was an engine shut down, and then there was a problem with a landing gear fire after landing.
https://avherald.com/h?article=4f714feb&opt=0
This guy making his passengers nauseous
I've never seen a transatlantic passenger jet do this. What could be the reason for it?
Possibly a time restriction at the oceanic entry point that they were going to be too early for so a few delaying vectors to bring that time back in line with the restriction.
Just looking at flight radar now, is it a regular thing for flights coming from Spain etc to fly as far north as Nobber in Meath before turning South for Dublin. Is this happening because the airport is very busy?
That woke me up this morning taking off.
knew it was something different so jumped out of bed, didn’t see it tho.
Cool flight path! And yes, I know it's a calibration flight or something. Just haven't seen them do perfect circles before.
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I would assume that it was because there was a pretty brisk south easterly wind yesterday so runway 34 was in use.
If the wind was from the SE I would expect runway 16 to be preferred.
Any definite answer on this, my friend saw it from the ground and is curious.
Delaying tactic to make an oceanic entry time restriction.
Ever decreasing circles. 2 aircorps jets hard at it!
Leeds Bradford crazy this morning. FR152 / EAI39LB
https://www.flightradar24.com/RSD088/2b827e07 big detour for this il96
Gotten kind of used to hearing a US Navy C-130 flying over. Thought I heard it again, but turns out it's New Zealand this time.
Inbound to Brize Norton.
This guy is drawing a nice pattern in the sky over Shannon now
It was not landing at SNN and went direct to Bournemouth.
why did it do the turn over shannon ?
I saw those contrails myself yesterday morning and after checking FR24 was curious about what was going on.
From looking at Twitter that airline are doing cargo runs between the US and Europe including some shuttles between Shannon, Belfast and Bournemouth. One tweet described how an aircraft would land at Belfast, reach its stand, and then depart again without any loading or unloading.
Then there is this over Shannon yesterday. Hard to understand what’s going on, or where the revenue is coming from.
A long time ago, back when turbo prop aircraft (HS748's) were doing the cargo runs, there was a regular flight in with a load of boxes on that was unloaded, the boxes went off the ramp to a warehouse, and the same boxes came back not long after, and it was reloaded and went out again. A while later, there was a complex court case that related a significant cross border VAT fraud that involved a lot of boxes of computer chips.
These flights may be completely above board and genuine, and the stops here may be nothing more than a technical refuelling stop because they can't get out of Bournemouth with a full load and trans atlantic fuel, (as was the case with the London City to New York BA flights that stopped in Shannon when going westbound) but given that there are some very complex VAT issues around the North and Bexit as a result of the UK leaving the EU, with the North still tied into some very complex EU arrangements because of the North South Good Friday agreements, I find myself wondering if there's some sort of manipulation going on that's legal but benefitting someone to the detriment of "the system".
The A340 are only stopping in Shannon from JFK for crew training, sometimes they'll land and taxi around the apron and take off again straight away.
The Bournemouth to JFK stops in Shannon are for fuel as they can't take off full from Bournemouth.
A listen-back to the relevant LiveATC archive might shed light on the dogleg over Ireland.
I think I saw the same one as well, around 8.30 am. Anyone know more as I never noticed a U turn contrail before?
Check out this flight
DEA Aviation doing some surveying over Galway and Mayo this morning
Was going to post the same! Nice cloudless day for it too
