Flightradar24 Thread Part II

Navanboyo · 13-10-2015 12:19PM

Apologies as I am sure this has been noticed and asked about before. Just looking at Flightradar to identify a plane overhead, and having done that noticed that a British army plane is visible on the radar but it appears to be crisscrossing the border and sometimes flying into the republic.

Is this just a case of the positioning of the plane on the radar being slightly inaccurate? It was active around Crossmaglen and flying at around 3,000 feet.

Thanks

Tabnabs · 13-10-2015 12:37PM

An RAF KC2 tanker currently doing interesting things off the west coast of Scotland.

http://www.flightradar24.com/TARTN21/7b058a1

BZ · 13-10-2015 12:49PM

French air force A340 due to land at SNN in 10 minutes time.

aphex™ · 13-10-2015 01:03PM

Cold war about to go hot?

beer enigma · 13-10-2015 01:08PM

Tabnabs wrote: »

An RAF KC2 tanker currently doing interesting things off the west coast of Scotland.

http://www.flightradar24.com/TARTN21/7b058a1

There's a Hawk up there too, so must be an exercise of some sort http://www.flightradar24.com/HAWK/7b0a070

Growler!!! · 13-10-2015 01:20PM

Without having to trawl through Google, does anyone know what the refuelling procedure is in regards to TCAS and collision avoidance? As refuelling is a visual manoeuvre will the aircraft being refueled have its transponder turned off?

Ie. Will they both show up on FR24?

arubex · 13-10-2015 01:27PM

Andip wrote: »

There's a Hawk up there too, so must be an exercise of some sort http://www.flightradar24.com/HAWK/7b0a070

Exercise Joint Warrior, big NATO all-arms exercise. I think this is the tenth day of this round, takes place a couple of times per year.

Re: AAR, procedure is that receivers Mode-S is turned off and they use TACAN for the join-up. So you won't see the receiver actually hooking-up on Planeplotter or whatever. However when the CV-22s are practising low-level dry hook-ups they often show up near their tanker.

Growler!!! · 13-10-2015 01:46PM

Cool. The aerial refueller has its own VOR type transmitter onboard for the guys to track to. Makes sense.

fr336 · 13-10-2015 03:29PM

aphex™ wrote: »

Cold war about to go hot?

I knew there was a reason I followed this thread!

pfurey101 · 13-10-2015 05:57PM

Growler!!! wrote: »

Without having to trawl through Google, does anyone know what the refuelling procedure is in regards to TCAS and collision avoidance? As refuelling is a visual manoeuvre will the aircraft being refueled have its transponder turned off?

Ie. Will they both show up on FR24?

Most military do not have the ADS configuration that would allow for a proper and reliable plot. And if they did, FR24 blocks 95% of them - wheter they are full ADS or not, along with most bizjets being blocked.

I'm not sure why the odd military slips thru their filters.

I've observed plenty of refuellers over the top over the years with an MLAT plot, but have never seen a refuel in progress online. I would assume they refuel locally out over the Atlantic or even the North sea. Well out of range of any FR24 or other feeders.

smurfjed · 13-10-2015 07:47PM

VOR type transmitter onboard for the guys to track to

Does it make sense that they broadcast their position? I always thought that they were controlled by AWACS or had predetermined fuelling locations. Once close to the aircraft I believe that they have the equivalent of lead in lights.

Growler!!! · 13-10-2015 07:56PM

smurfjed wrote: »

Does it make sense that they broadcast their position?

Of course it does. They have TACAN on aircraft carriers too! They use UHF for comms. I'll take a wild guess and say they are using frequency hopsets similar to the Sincgars Man-packs. No hopset no navigation.

Bit of googling reveals:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_air_navigation_system

Have a look under Drawbacks.

JCX BXC · 13-10-2015 08:12PM

Alot of holding at Alicante airport, seems thunderstorms are causing problems.

Trebor176 · 13-10-2015 09:11PM

JP McManus is out and about again!

http://www.flightradar24.com/7b16f3f

Xpro · 14-10-2015 09:14AM

Is Fr24 app down?

Can someone please check on their iphone if the app is working? I have fr24 premium on my iphone and for some reason the app is stuck on logo, or when reinstalled it wont let me sign in??..:mad:

cheers

pepe the prawn · 14-10-2015 09:16AM

Xpro wrote: »

Is Fr24 app down?

Can someone please check on their iphone if the app is working? I have fr24 premium on my iphone and for some reason the app is stuck on logo, or when reinstalled it wont let me sign in??..:mad:

cheers

Working fine for me, iPhone 6

Bummer1234 · 14-10-2015 09:25AM

Xpro wrote: »

Is Fr24 app down?

Can someone please check on their iphone if the app is working? I have fr24 premium on my iphone and for some reason the app is stuck on logo, or when reinstalled it wont let me sign in??..:mad:

cheers

Im on three and i think there is something wrong with there 4G this morning,Everything working on 3G for me but you maybe a different network/issue

Xpro · 14-10-2015 09:30AM

Its working now again, must have been some issue or so, as I tried it on my ipad too and It didn't work either.
All good now:)

Irish Steve · 14-10-2015 10:06AM

Had problems yesterday afternoon with flight details not showing on smart phone via 3 (or IKEA WiFi) , so the flight was being shown on the map, but no departure or destination information was coming up, it seems to be working correctly again today though

Bummer1234 · 14-10-2015 12:35PM

Irish Steve wrote: »

Had problems yesterday afternoon with flight details not showing on smart phone via 3 (or IKEA WiFi) , so the flight was being shown on the map, but no departure or destination information was coming up, it seems to be working correctly again today though

Actually now that you mention that i was getting the same, No flight paths or pictures where displaying on the desktop page....Back to normal today anyway.

BarryM · 14-10-2015 03:08PM

highlydebased wrote: »

I host near Shannon. It took a few months to get going from the time I registered but it's fairy simple. You just have to provide them with lat/long coordinates and pictures of where the antenna will go basically. Antenna arrives in the post and you install, plug in and away it goes.

Hi,

I live in an "interesting" place, I think, at 51.5N and 09 W approx, under the great circle from Europe to US tracks via 50N to 55N. Open site, no problem with siting antenna.

I have registered an interest but nothing, so far. Perhaps too obvious a spot?

Do you mind if I ask what sort of (nominal) bb speed you have and are you hardwired to your router?? I suspect my fixed wireless is a drawback.

highlydebased · 14-10-2015 03:11PM

BarryM wrote:

Do you mind if I ask what sort of (nominal) bb speed you have and are you hardwired to your router?? I suspect my fixed wireless is a drawback.

Dreadful rural broadband. 3mb offpeak. Won't really matter what kind you have, the fr24 box uses a tiny amount of upload bandwidth only. The box must be connected via ethernet though to the router

Shannon757 · 14-10-2015 03:55PM

Xpro wrote: »

Its working now again, must have been some issue or so, as I tried it on my ipad too and It didn't work either.
All good now:)

Thinly veiled "I have an iPhone/iPad" boast.:D

Xpro · 14-10-2015 05:20PM

Shannon757 wrote: »

Thinly veiled "I have an iPhone/iPad" boast.:D

Im full of gadgets:) But hey, who doesn't have an iPad this days

Shannon757 · 14-10-2015 05:56PM

Xpro wrote: »

Im full of gadgets:) But hey, who doesn't have an iPad this days

Me

:(:(

Pat Dunne · 15-10-2015 12:18AM

Just spotted this British Army Air Corps, Britton-Norman Defender BTN2, out of Brize Norton, doing circuits of Cardiff.
The photo shows some "very interesting bulges and antennae".

fr336 · 15-10-2015 12:21AM

Pat Dunne wrote: »

Just spotted this British Army Air Corps, Britton-Norman Defender BTN2, doing circuits of Cardiff.
The photo shows some "very interesting bulges and antennae".

Was out last night as well.

Pat Dunne · 15-10-2015 12:25AM

Pat Dunne wrote: »

Just spotted this British Army Air Corps, Britton-Norman Defender BTN2, out of Brize Norton, doing circuits of Cardiff.
The photo shows some "very interesting bulges and antennae".

And now its gone.

masit · 15-10-2015 07:57PM

See the BAE systems Hank's over Wales, are out late enough. First time I seen them flying this late.

Pat Dunne · 15-10-2015 11:03PM

A bit of action around Brize Norton at the moment, with 2 x C130's operating at low altitude.

Flightradar24 Thread Part II

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