Flightradar24 (and other trackers) Thread Part IV

drdidlittle wrote: »

What flights of large planes do not show up on flightradar. Large plane today over northwest. 4 engine with high tail flying westish about 13.30 7th November

It was a USAF C-17 at FL120, presumably flying unpressurised, hence the lower level. It had suffered damage recently in Afghanistan when it landed with the nose-gear stuck in the retracted position.

AN124 just getting ready to line up for landing on 06 this morning in SNN.

Just heard that take off knew it was big , I’m right parallel with the take off in Shannon.
Look out the window and the front gear was down and rear gear up and it didn’t go up as long as I could see which was about 10 seconds.
Is that normal?
She wasn’t doing much of a climb either lowest take off I have seen.

Edit : 747 coming to land now also.

Edit : she is not coming back by the looks of it so must be ok:-)

cameramonkey wrote: »

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4ca2d5


This shows military aircraft .

On that website you can see everything from f16s to C5 galaxy's. I have never seen are own casas on it . Is the air corps able to prevent there locations being shown ?

hobie14 wrote: »

Suspect that was a 124 heading off for KEF ...

When I checked flightradar24 it said Antonov...

4Ad wrote: »

When I checked flightradar24 it said Antonov...

Yep ..... Antonov 124

Huge Antonov crash

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8946333/amp/Huge-Antonov-cargo-plane-crash-lands-skids-runway-emergency-caught-video-Russia.html?__twitter_impression=true

I noticed this flight earlier while messing around on Flightradar. I assume this aircraft is going into storage?

Also, has there ever been a shorter flight completed by a jet aircraft to a different airport from where it departed?

That's very interesting, thank you for the link. At the right spot on a clear day you could probably catch the take off and landing in one shot!

I heard Emirates use the suffix “SUPER” yesterday for the first time in months, how many of these beasts are still in operation?

TedR wrote: »

I see the rescue heli operating off wexford coast, hope everyone will be safe. Bad windy old night in Dublin anyway.

They were training by doing winching exercises with a cargo vessel and a ferry.

Skyknight wrote: »

Your right:o, I have to admit not the best time to do it to be doing Photographic survey work ..LiDAR mapping is more likely re scanning areas missed/poor elevation data coverage during a track run earlier in the year.



This is more suited for the Flightradar24 (and other trackers) (Note to MODS please move relevant posts there)

Best time to do it for them as they can use busier airspace at nighttime. Several articles about it online in the past few weeks, people wondering why there were low flying aircraft at these late hours.

"The identity of the organisation that hired the RVL Group is still unknown. In a statement issued to the paper earlier this week, RVL said that some of the survey work it undertakes is for environment and government agencies and entities and can only be carried out at night for operational and technical reasons, including the “availability of access to busy airspace” https://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/2020/11/19/english-plane-returns-for-second-survey-of-the-region/

My guess is it's using LIDAR to map flooding for OPW, it seemed to be concentrating on the Suck river catchment areas last night.

I'm looking forward to him returning and keeping me awake another night tonight:)