Flightradar24 Thread

airuser · 04-01-2015 11:00AM

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

Cargo ship capsized in the Pentland Firth, 8 people missing

Aberdeen Airport is also the main heliport for the oil & gas rigs in the North Sea

Yes, I know the oil rigs situation. Just commenting on the fact the helo look like ants.

Growler!!! · 04-01-2015 11:07AM

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

Cargo ship capsized in the Pentland Firth, 8 people missing

Aberdeen Airport is also the main heliport for the oil & gas rigs in the North Sea

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A passing ferry has found the ship, search for the 8 crew is on going.

airuser · 04-01-2015 11:10AM

That ,photo does not look good. Believe it was carrying concrete.

Weather was poor in that area last evening.

sjb25 · 04-01-2015 11:23AM

Rescue s92 searching hopefully the find them

Growler!!! · 04-01-2015 11:30AM

Unfortunately, depending on how quickly it happened many may still be on board.

04-01-2015 11:38AM

Growler!!! wrote: »

Unfortunately, depending on how quickly it happened many may still be on board.

It would have had to have been very quick, but I see your point. If no sat nav response from an EPIRB then it's not looking good.

sjb25 · 04-01-2015 11:48AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It would have had to have been very quick, but I see your point. If no sat nav response from an EPIRB then it's not looking good.

Looking bad alright

Growler!!! · 04-01-2015 11:56AM

Deleted User wrote: »

It would have had to have been very quick, but I see your point. If no sat nav response from an EPIRB then it's not looking good.

Ships are fitted with float free EPIRB's and one to be carried to the lifeboat usually in the wheel house. Unless she rolled over on the side where the EPIRB was attached and it got fouled it would appear they didn't have time to send a distress call or activate the EPIRB.

The ship was only found when a passing ferry spotted it so I don't think the EPIRB activated.

With any luck the air search will generate results as a recovery from a ship in that state will be hazardous.

billie1b · 04-01-2015 01:56PM

Anyone elses flighradar acting up on the iphone/ipad app?

h3000 · 04-01-2015 02:08PM

billie1b wrote: »

Anyone elses flighradar acting up on the iphone/ipad app?

Nope. Seems fine.

JCX BXC · 04-01-2015 02:56PM

owenc wrote: »

Actually that plane has a very irratic flght path?? Hmm

Oh my gosh now its flying in zig zags

Haha that's a flight radar mistake. The signal in that area is poor, it often happens to plane. BTW planes can't do zig zags;)

airuser · 04-01-2015 03:07PM

billie1b wrote: »

Anyone elses flighradar acting up on the iphone/ipad app?

My iPad Ar 2 was acting up last evening. Lost a flight over Irish Sea. It may have been the Tracking Station.

Rebooted and then came back. NoFlight

owenc · 04-01-2015 03:08PM

Carnacalla wrote: »

Haha that's a flight radar mistake. The signal in that area is poor, it often happens to plane. BTW planes can't do zig zags;)

Well I thought it was a ruder problem. It kept going south from Montreal and then I thought it was diverting to NYC but then it started going towards the atlantic.

Anyway I knew it was wrong when I checked on Dublin airport's website and it said a due arrival at 9am.

cjk photos · 04-01-2015 03:31PM

my fligtradar is linked to my sbs for a feed anyone else a feeder

billie1b · 04-01-2015 03:35PM

airuser wrote: »

My iPad Ar 2 was acting up last evening. Lost a flight over Irish Sea. It may have been the Tracking Station.

Rebooted and then came back. NoFlight

I deleted the app and reinstalled it, seems to be good now

Shannon757 · 04-01-2015 04:15PM

Maltese Legacy 600 from Lyon (Air X Charter) headed to Shannon I think.

JCX BXC · 04-01-2015 04:31PM

Shannon757 wrote: »

Maltese Legacy 600 from Lyon (Air X Charter) headed to Shannon I think.

It was. Was their a problem with it on the runway? EI381 had to loop instead of doing an approach. Not good for a flight already 3 hours delayed.

airuser · 04-01-2015 06:27PM

billie1b wrote: »

I deleted the app and reinstalled it, seems to be good now

I do not know if its the App or the iPad

billie1b · 04-01-2015 06:32PM

airuser wrote: »

I do not know if its the App or the iPad

It was the same on the iPhone, working grand now so its all good

Shannon757 · 04-01-2015 06:39PM

Off topic but SAR helicopter over O'Brien's Bridge Co.Clare .
anyone know whats up?

de biz · 04-01-2015 08:01PM

http://www.flightradar24.com/DJT100/531da5d

Unscheduled stop into Shannon.

fr336 · 04-01-2015 09:04PM

Bit of holding and diverting going on in South East of England - very poor visibility with fog. London City especially hit.

fr336 · 04-01-2015 09:14PM

E.g. Go around at LCY http://www.flightradar24.com/CFE50L/531efcd

airuser · 04-01-2015 09:18PM

Many delays into Heathrow as well

airuser · 04-01-2015 09:20PM

http://en.allmetsat.com/metar-taf/north-atlantic.php?icao=EGLL

Weather at Heathrow

FWVT · 04-01-2015 10:08PM

It's fine at Heathrow and City. It got down to just below 1 km vis at Heathrow for an hour and 2.5 km at City, but these are totally doable. Heathrow was down to 100 m for a few hours this morning alright...

pepe the prawn · 04-01-2015 10:21PM

Heathrow station manager contacted Dublin station manager about an hour ago asking them to suspend all departures to LHR, they had a good few aircraft holding due to low vis, suspension was lifted about 30 minutes ago, a shamrock and a speedbird have since been released from Dublin and are currently LHR bound.

Bo91 · 04-01-2015 10:30PM

Qatar airways about to take off from Dublin again , a sign of things to come ?

FWVT · 04-01-2015 10:30PM

pepe the prawn wrote: »

Heathrow station manager contacted Dublin station manager about an hour ago asking them to suspend all departures to LHR, they had a good few aircraft holding due to low vis, suspension was lifted about 30 minutes ago, a shamrock and a speedbird have since been released from Dublin and are currently LHR bound.

Why would LHR suffer that severely from conditions that were not THAT bad. 800 metres is as low as it got. Is it to do with the dual runways? Dublin operates well in conditions much worse than that.

pepe the prawn · 04-01-2015 10:53PM

FWVT wrote: »

Why would LHR suffer that severely from conditions that were not THAT bad. 800 metres is as low as it got. Is it to do with the dual runways? Dublin operates well in conditions much worse than that.

Was 800m the forward or vertical vis? The vis as reported on metars can't always be trusted, may have deteriorated significantly for a short period of time which caused all the holding. The RVR may have been too low, chances are conditions were below the authorised CAT limits for their runways.

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