Flightradar24 (and other trackers) Thread Part IV

**Timbuk2** · 20-02-2021 9:23pm

https://twitter.com/von_sassy/status/1363174977621655553?s=21

Departed 18:20, also Blocked. Sounded loud - anyone know what type of plane it was?

ohlordy · 20-02-2021 10:15pm

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

https://twitter.com/von_sassy/status/1363174977621655553?s=21

Departed 18:20, also Blocked. Sounded loud - anyone know what type of plane it was?

I saw that on it's final approach, from baldoyle, glanced at fr24 and didn't see anything. I decided it must be the air corps casa as from where I was it had similar silhouette, but I did think it looked a bit big. So, basically, I haven't a clue what it was!

EchoIndia · 20-02-2021 10:17pm

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Departed 18:20, also Blocked. Sounded loud - anyone know what type of plane it was?

Gulfstream III

Bsal · 20-02-2021 11:05pm

N196PA heard it departing from RWY16 this afternoon made a hell of a noise

ohlordy · 20-02-2021 11:25pm

EchoIndia wrote: »

Gulfstream III

No longer blocked

ohlordy · 20-02-2021 11:30pm

Belting along here, 760mph. Serious jet stream assistance. Is that as fast as it gets?

22-02-2021 12:42pm

VLJ505X giving some crazy readings and an about turn over the Midlands just now, was heading North-North-East out of France, currently heading for Wexford. Readings show a loss of altitude, and a climb back. Sure hope that’s an instrumentation error.

HeidiHeidi · 22-02-2021 12:47pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

VLJ505X giving some crazy readings and an about turn over the Midlands just now, was heading North-North-East out of France, currently heading for Wexford. Readings show a loss of altitude, and a climb back. Sure hope that’s an instrumentation error.

I searched that flight number and it shows a perfectly normal-looking flight out of Knock heading SE??

sparrowcar · 22-02-2021 8:04pm

Folks, I saw 2 light aircraft in close formation heading north east close to Blakes Cross/Lusk direction at 1609 today. Nothing on flight radar when I looked. They weren't PC9's from the air corps as they looked like high wing light aircraft.

Any ideas?

cameramonkey · 22-02-2021 9:41pm

sparrowcar wrote: »

Folks, I saw 2 light aircraft in close formation heading north east close to Blakes Cross/Lusk direction at 1609 today. Nothing on flight radar when I looked. They weren't PC9's from the air corps as they looked like high wing light aircraft.

Any ideas?

next time try https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4ca41e
It show military aircraft.

Hogzy · 24-02-2021 12:30am

Theres a NASA 747-SP flying up the east coast now at FL430.

EchoIndia · 24-02-2021 12:33am

Hogzy wrote: »

Theres a NASA 747-SP flying up the east coast now at FL430.

A nightly event of late. SOFIA programme.

Hogzy · 24-02-2021 12:37am

EchoIndia wrote: »

A nightly event of late. SOFIA programme.

Thats mad iv never noticed it once and id be on a fair bit in the evenings.

glenfieldman · 24-02-2021 10:03pm

That A300F was very loud flying over Lucan just now

SmashingPilot · 25-02-2021 12:36am

Hogzy wrote: »

Thats mad iv never noticed it once and id be on a fair bit in the evenings.

I've found it out flying again tonight. Just reading up on SOFIA now.

Sgt. Bilko 09 · 25-02-2021 10:03pm

Major military activity in the Uk involving US and UK air forces,
I can’t upload the photos but apaches typhoons hercs and rivets

b318isp · 26-02-2021 12:54pm

An124 RA-82044 about to fly over Dublin.

roadmaster · 26-02-2021 1:13pm

A Nato MRTT doing circuits over shannon

dashoonage · 26-02-2021 1:39pm

roadmaster wrote: »

A Nato MRTT doing circuits over shannon

Seems to be heading for iceland now

https://www.flightradar24.com/MMF99/26ece120

took on look at shannon and went , **** that lads....

Oscar Bravo · 28-02-2021 6:35pm

AN 12 ,UR-CKM approaching Wexford coast on the way into Shannon

10-10-20 · 01-03-2021 12:55pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

AN 12 ,UR-CKM approaching Wexford coast on the way into Shannon

Departing now. US bound?
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=5082a8

smurfjed · 01-03-2021 3:31pm

If the Dublin weather is clear tomorrow, there might be an opportunity to get high altitude photos of a 787BBJ around noon.

de biz · 02-03-2021 10:40pm

@smurf M*8 tracked close tonight but no cigar!

Recliner · 03-03-2021 6:37am

Any idea what this is?

smurfjed · 03-03-2021 7:04am

Looks like a new Gulfstream G650 as per FlightAware departures for KSAV.

Nqp15hhu · 03-03-2021 2:49pm

Royal Air Force P-8A appears to have landed in BFS with some BAE 128 T.3 circling over the Isle of Man.

03-03-2021 4:03pm

Norwegian 737-800 test flight from Dublin out over the west coast and then back again.

https://www.flightradar24.com/SERPA/26f8b910

03-03-2021 4:57pm

Also just spotted what looks like a U.S. Navy Poseidon on its way to Spain.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae67a6

https://liveuamap.com/en/2020/10-december-blacksea--us-navy-p8-poseidon-ae67a6-usaf-rc135v

MikeD22 · 04-03-2021 10:32pm

Anyone know why theres so much military activity over the uk the last while? Sky full of us air force and RAF aircraft.

Has flightradar only recently been given access to those flights?

smurfjed · 04-03-2021 10:45pm

Requirement to have ADS-B Version 2

Psychlops · 04-03-2021 11:19pm

MikeD22 wrote: »

Anyone know why theres so much military activity over the uk the last while? Sky full of us air force and RAF aircraft.

Has flightradar only recently been given access to those flights?

There has always been a huge amounf of Mil traffic over the UK, it is very active, even on the weekends, Flightradar24 has a terrible habit of not showing Military, your best bet is to use ADS-B.

Alpha Romeo · 05-03-2021 6:18pm

Virgin Atlantic A350-1000 approaching DUB now

https://fr24.com/VIR521/26fea27c

PinOnTheRight · 05-03-2021 7:33pm

Alpha Romeo wrote: »

Virgin Atlantic A350-1000 approaching DUB now

https://fr24.com/VIR521/26fea27c

Due out again 1900.

No Bills · 07-03-2021 10:50am

Alpha Romeo wrote: »

Virgin Atlantic A350-1000 approaching DUB now

https://fr24.com/VIR521/26fea27c

The Virgin A350 is back in Dublin from Heathrow this morning.
Why are they using this aircraft on such a short route?

trellheim · 07-03-2021 11:58am

cargo connector iirc

RadioRetro · 07-03-2021 1:44pm

No Bills wrote: »

The Virgin A350 is back in Dublin from Heathrow this morning.
Why are they using this aircraft on such a short route?

This might explain all.

https://flyinginireland.com/2021/03/first-airbus-a350-1000-visit-to-dublin/

smurfjed · 07-03-2021 9:12pm

This guy is far from home.

13-03-2021 2:04am

I'm surprised that Google's project Loon is still going. I thought by now, it would join the list of other products and ideas they've tried and then killed off.

https://www.flightradar24.com/HBAL297/270f9818

smurfjed · 13-03-2021 6:53am

They killed it off a few weeks ago, but I’m not sure if they gave a final date.

Ish66 · 14-03-2021 10:25pm

Why would Aer Lingus send an A330 to London and back {EI 179}. Not that busy is it ? They did it on the 8th of March too. Just curious !

EchoIndia · 14-03-2021 10:27pm

Ish66 wrote: »

Why would Aer Lingus send an A330 to London and back {EI 179}. Not that busy is it ? They did it on the 8th of March too. Just curious !

That's been happening for months - to carry extra cargo, I think.

Ish66 · 14-03-2021 10:32pm

EchoIndia wrote: »

That's been happening for months - to carry extra cargo, I think.

Thanks. That trip would not even warm her up !

Hogzy · 14-03-2021 10:36pm

Ish66 wrote: »

Why would Aer Lingus send an A330 to London and back {EI 179}. Not that busy is it ? They did it on the 8th of March too. Just curious !

I was wondering that myself. I thought it might have been to allow passengers actually socially distance whilst onboard.

L1011 · 14-03-2021 10:45pm

Almost certainly for cargo capacity

HTCOne · 14-03-2021 11:02pm

Hogzy wrote: »

I was wondering that myself. I thought it might have been to allow passengers actually socially distance whilst onboard.

Thats just an added benefit (it is done I believe). There should have been 14 or 15 A330s crossing the Atlantic each direction each day if not for COVID, now there's 2. All that cargo needs to get to the states via LHR with BA now.

L-M · 14-03-2021 11:05pm

I was talking to a chap working for Lufthansa and he said they were rotating all their planes so they wouldn’t clock up the houses to require major service work. Wonder if that has any influence.

HTCOne · 14-03-2021 11:19pm

L-M wrote: »

I was talking to a chap working for Lufthansa and he said they were rotating all their planes so they wouldn’t clock up the houses to require major service work. Wonder if that has any influence.

Maintenance schedules, leasing ts & cs, power by the hour contracts etc will all feed into it. Rolls Royce are suffering particularly badly right now, power by the hour was their baby and they're very heavily exposed as a result.

L-M · 15-03-2021 1:34am

HTCOne wrote: »

Maintenance schedules, leasing ts & cs, power by the hour contracts etc will all feed into it. Rolls Royce are suffering particularly badly right now, power by the hour was their baby and they're very heavily exposed as a result.

Yeah, he reckoned it was going to be September this year when it was going hit the fan, if things didn’t open during the summer again. It’s a pity really, I’ve already met an aircraft engineer from Shannon out of work. As in job gone, not just on Covid payment

15-03-2021 3:52pm

This flight seems to be happening often always off the coast of Waterford and following the same pattern.

BIO02 from Chester https://fr24.com/BIO02/2716c044

It's some sort of survey flight, anyone know what they are looking for.

ozzy jr · 16-03-2021 6:41pm

There's a Qatar A330 on its way from Chateauroux to Dublin. Any idea why? A new plane for Aer Lingus?

Flightradar24 (and other trackers) Thread Part IV

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