Flightradar24 Thread

FR learjet is out and about

http://www.flightradar24.com/RYR1/28cb0a2

homerjay2005 wrote: »

spotted that a few times this week, but never that far away. would o'leary use it himself or is it just for engineering purposes, for airports that may not necessarily have direct routes from Dublin?

hard to know where it took off or where it is going, as the routes are not clear on FR24

Generally just engineers to and from different hubs and bases and ferrying parts around, o' Leary uses it the odd time but not too often, he doesn't believe in wasting the fuel on the biz jet if there is a 737-800 going the same place

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I'll have you know Luton is a fine part of the world, indeed the best, everyone who's ever been here just moans till they're blue due to not wanting the world and his mother to turn up. Saving its richness for ourselves, we are.

Think the Ryanair learjet touched down at Stansted.

billie1b wrote: »

Its house is in STN dude

Yeah, I thought either that or Prestwick.

Maybe if I catch it taking off again it'll fly over this way - I see a lot of FR's out of STN fly right over Luton.

homerjay2005 wrote: »

the Beluga is on its way back to Toulouse again from the Hamburg base, presumably delivering another plane.

think its the 3rd delivery there today, they must be churning out some amount of gear from the place.

would all planes have final assembly in Toulouse or is it just primarily the A380?

There's a plane inside that plane?! :eek:

fr336 wrote: »

There's a plane inside that plane?! :eek:

yep, its used to deliver planes to their factories, which are premade elsewhere. for instance the wings could be made in the UK, fuselage in Bremen and the Tail in Hamburg.

the A380 however,needs to come by sea and land, once a week.

fr336 wrote: »

Wow. I'm guessing everything on a Boeing is made in the US?

i think boeing has the largest factory in the world, so i assume everything is done there, but they still would need to ship certain things in.

so i assume everything is done there

Not true, why do you think that they built the huge B747 transporter?

b757 wrote: »

You guess wrong.. :P

http://www.newairplane.com/787/whos_building/

Same for every aircraft in production, not just the 787. Parts are built all over the world and shipped to the assembly lines.

Ahh. Interesting site, many thanks

paulfosters wrote: »

whats wrong with Luton ?

Nothing much as long as you stay inside the airport grounds :pac:

Built 500ft amsl so its affected by weather earlier than surrounding airports, lousy crosswinds and turbulence on arrival, relatively short runway, single entry taxiways to runway, incredibly irritating immigration personnel, luckily we drive to London for layovers, rather than staying in Luton.

The_Wanderer wrote: »

As Mary Kenny found out recently. http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-was-stripsearched-at-uk-airport-says-journalist-mary-kenny-29897017.html

Why would she want to leave Luton?

Anybody know or have an idea as to why EI - REI, aer arran, man - dub is currently head in away from dub, last seen it over carlow! ?

gumbo1 wrote: »

Anybody know or have an idea as to why EI - REI, aer arran, man - dub is currently head in away from dub, last seen it over carlow! ?

Previously on this thread this question like this has been addressed

'Flightradar only has so much coverage - its provided by volunteers with units. ADS-B coverage is much better than the Mode S multilateration (MLAT) but even it has its limits'. Courtesy of MYOB

I dont think that many people have MLAT receivers which track Aer Arran and other aircraft that do not have ADS-B. As a result these flights pop up and dissapear as they fly from A to B. I think once below 15,000 feet they are lost.

Edit: After saying that I think the latest ATR-72's may have ADS-B