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Flightradar24 (and other trackers) Thread Part IV

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    #62
    [Deleted User]
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    smurfjed wrote: »
    I would have guess that it had to do with a lack of long range navigation facilities and equipment. But these days I’m ready to be “bored”, so go ahead :)

    I don't want to take this thread off course (no pun intended!) but a brief explanation is here in good old Wikipedia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airway_(aviation)#cite_ref-1

    In my early days, the airways (in the UK at least) were colour coded. Red 1 went east from London to Clacton, then crossed the north sea towards Amsterdam - west it went to Southampton then down to the Channel Islands.

    There's some old charts showing lots of the UK and much of Ireland here

    https://atchistory.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/uk-airways-1977/

    And a good video is here

    https://vimeo.com/239777948


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    #63
    b318isp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭b318isp


    Slovian AF C-27 Spartan over Irish sea currently @ FL270. Looks like it's tracking over / into Dublin.

    Edit: Now landed in Dublin. Got a decent view of it on approach.


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    #64
    Boxcar_Willie
    Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭Boxcar_Willie


    b318isp wrote: »
    Slovian AF C-27 Spartan over Irish sea currently @ FL270. Looks like it's tracking over / into Dublin.

    Edit: Now landed in Dublin. Got a decent view of it on approach.

    Did you get a pic ??


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    #65
    b318isp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭b318isp


      Boxcar_Willie wrote: »
      Did you get a pic ??

      Yep, but it's quite a distance away. Will post it tomorrow.


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      #66
      Mech1
      Registered Users Posts: 5,072 ✭✭✭Mech1


      Deleted User wrote: »
      I don't want to take this thread off course (no pun intended!) but a brief explanation is here in good old Wikipedia.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airway_(aviation)#cite_ref-1

      In my early days, the airways (in the UK at least) were colour coded. Red 1 went east from London to Clacton, then crossed the north sea towards Amsterdam - west it went to Southampton then down to the Channel Islands.

      There's some old charts showing lots of the UK and much of Ireland here

      https://atchistory.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/uk-airways-1977/

      And a good video is here

      https://vimeo.com/239777948

      Tell us some more, you choose the aviation subject to talk about, get as boring as you want im sure a mod will sort out what thread your info should be in but sure just start here. We are all ears open for experienced posts.


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      #67
      smurfjed
      Registered Users Posts: 10,030 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


      Totally agree with Mech1, i have already opened the linked pages and started to educate myself.


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      #68
      Yellow Dog
      Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Yellow Dog


      Two flights from Budapest arriving in Dublin within two minutes of each other.

      SP-RKO formally EI-FIL
      SP-RKS formally EI-FIS

      Both Originally Ryanair and now Buzz


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      #69
      Irish Steve
      Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


      Another busy day for the Peking shuttle service, 5 330's in the air between Dublin and Peking or reverse.

      Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



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      #70
      Salmon Leap
      Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Salmon Leap


      Finn Air A350 on the way to DUB as well. Due 5:30ish


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      #71
      millb
      Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭millb


      RAF new
      120 Squadron delivers the first RAF P-8A Poseidon MRA1 to the UK. Feb 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_P-8_Poseidon

      Flying over the Irish Sea

      [IMG]<a href="https://imgur.com/ezu2A0A"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ezu2A0A.png&quot; title="source: imgur.com" /></a>[/IMG]

      <a href="https://imgur.com/ezu2A0A"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ezu2A0A.png" title="source: imgur.com" /></a>


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      #72
      Salmon Leap
      Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Salmon Leap


      RA-76503 Volga-Dnepr IL76 en route to Shannon from Athens. Due in around 1:20.


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      #73
      Tabnabs
      Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,692 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


      A bit of variety headed into Dublin, an Alenia C-27J Spartan coming in from Bratislava.

      https://www.flightradar24.com/SQF102/2480caa8


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      #74
      nomdeboardie
      Registered Users Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭nomdeboardie


      rvr7ne at it again https://www.flightradar24.com/RVR7RX/2480e4cb (see posts 58-60) - would love to know if this is essential activity (by Irish or UK standards)...maybe they really are surveilling the Dubliners


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      #75
      marno21
      Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,344 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


      Salmon Leap wrote: »
      Finn Air A350 on the way to DUB as well. Due 5:30ish

      Loaded up with PPE. Came from Guangzhou via Helsinki

      https://twitter.com/mikahissa/status/1261202402562265089


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      #76
      goingnowhere
      Registered Users Posts: 4,132 ✭✭✭goingnowhere


      nomdeboardie wrote: »
      rvr7ne at it again https://www.flightradar24.com/RVR7RX/2480e4cb (see posts 58-60) - would love to know if this is essential activity (by Irish or UK standards)...maybe they really are surveilling the Dubliners

      Great time to map airspace you normally wouldn't be allowed in

      Guidance has been issued specifically to cover flights to comply with maintenance requirements for private operators

      Aircraft used daily are a known item, park for weeks you have to undertake significant maintenance. Crew have to make a certain minimum number of take offs/landings, if they don't they have to undertake training and be signed off again. There isn't the simulator capacity to allow for this nor is there maintenance capacity to check the entire fleet.


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      #77
      nomdeboardie
      Registered Users Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭nomdeboardie


      goingnowhere wrote: »
      Great time to map airspace you normally wouldn't be allowed in

      Guidance has been issued specifically to cover flights to comply with maintenance requirements for private operators

      Aircraft used daily are a known item, park for weeks you have to undertake significant maintenance. Crew have to make a certain minimum number of take offs/landings, if they don't they have to undertake training and be signed off again. There isn't the simulator capacity to allow for this nor is there maintenance capacity to check the entire fleet.
      Thanks.
      So this heavy 'coverage' would be happening normally (to get higher resolution photo data than from satillites?), but maybe spread out more across the year?


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      #78
      millb
      Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭millb


      AMG1988 wrote: »
      X280 Irish Air Corps PC12 currently showing heading south from Casement

      PC 12 #280

      On route now from Luxembourg .. over Bristol Channel atm


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      #79
      RadioRetro
      Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


      Salmon Leap wrote: »
      RA-76503 Volga-Dnepr IL76 en route to Shannon from Athens. Due in around 1:20.

      Thank you, heard the crew check in with Shannon whilst over St George's Channel then heard her as she flew overhead nice and loud.


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      #80
      donvito99
      Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


      millb wrote: »
      PC 12 #280

      On route now from Luxembourg .. over Bristol Channel atm

      Did it do some sort of touch and go at Cardiff?


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      #81
      10-10-20
      Registered Users Posts: 6,648 ✭✭✭10-10-20


      U2 spy-plane over North-Sea.
      https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae094c

      18km alt too.


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      #82
      smurfjed
      Registered Users Posts: 10,030 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


      Good catch, I didn’t realize that they were still in service :)


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      #83
      EchoIndia
      Registered Users Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


      I saw a screen shot of that today when it was still over the North Sea, at more than 78,000 feet.


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      #84
      blindsider
      Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭blindsider


      I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm not going to trawl the thread....

      Do Emergency Service aircraft not appear on Flightradar? I've often looked out my window at a Sikorsky flying overhead, and it's not on FR at all. Ditto with the Red/Yellow community Air Ambulance...never appears on FR.


      Thanks.


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      #85
      glenfieldman
      Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭glenfieldman


      blindsider wrote: »
      I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm not going to trawl the thread....

      Do Emergency Service aircraft not appear on Flightradar? I've often looked out my window at a Sikorsky flying overhead, and it's not on FR at all. Ditto with the Red/Yellow community Air Ambulance...never appears on FR.


      Thanks.

      They mostly do, but if you download RadarBox, thats they only one I have that tracks the Garda chopper and a lot more


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      #86
      blindsider
      Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭blindsider


      Thanks! I'll give it a go!


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      #87
      EchoIndia
      Registered Users Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


      blindsider wrote: »
      Ditto with the Red/Yellow community Air Ambulance...never appears on FR.

      Thanks.


      The community one does appear on FR24 when it comes to Dublin - for low-flying aircraft it depends on whether there are people in an area feeding data to the service.


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      #88
      RadioRetro
      Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


      blindsider wrote: »
      I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm not going to trawl the thread....

      Do Emergency Service aircraft not appear on Flightradar? I've often looked out my window at a Sikorsky flying overhead, and it's not on FR at all. Ditto with the Red/Yellow community Air Ambulance...never appears on FR.


      Thanks.

      Rescue 117 (Waterford) does and, I think, R116 or 5 also, the others don't due to lack of transponders. I was told the rest of the fleet will have them installed when in for major overhaul.


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      #89
      Growler!!!
      Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Growler!!!


      RadioRetro wrote: »
      I was told the rest of the fleet will have them installed when in for major overhaul.

      Are you sure that's true? Even a small R22 has a transponder. It could be that the Rescue helicopter are operating below the FR24 receivers coverage and therefore not showing up.

      The helis often show up on maritime AIS software if you want to see them operate out of FR24 range.


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      #90
      RadioRetro
      Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


      That's what I was told. All the SAR helicopters show up on MT.


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      #91
      Salmon Leap
      Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Salmon Leap


      A Kam Air 767 ex-Dublin currently over Eastern Germany. That’s an odd one.... it’s normal route seems to be Kabul-Istanbul.


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