Flightradar24 (and other trackers) Thread Part IV

irishbloke77 · 01-10-2020 9:57am

Alpha Romeo wrote: »

Scheduled for 0730 tomorrow morning

It left around that time this morning. Flightradar says its on its way to QQS, the shuttle landing facility at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

HTCOne · 01-10-2020 6:07pm

Might have been collecting some of the space cadets from Shannon Watch.

Trebor176 · 03-10-2020 1:40am

01:36 and IAC 280 is out late.

hurikane · 03-10-2020 9:27am

Trebor176 wrote: »

01:36 and IAC 280 is out late.

Heading for Germany with Covid samples?

goingnowhere · 03-10-2020 10:41am

MUC has a 2300 local overnight curfew. You can get around that, possibly as its not a jet and a state aircraft?

You would wonder if they are using EI's MUC flights as they fly 3 times a week in the evening

03-10-2020 7:29pm

Flight checking of the Dublin Runway 16 Glide path and the PAPIs for Runway 34 and 16 underway, in preparation for the runway’s reintroduction to service on 8 October.

Routine flight checks of the main runway tomorrow, both ends. Call sign VOR2

keepalive213 · 03-10-2020 7:45pm

Rescue chopper skirting the coast for a while earlier, (mullet peninsula) a mate said it landed on one of the beaches. Training??

Psychlops · 03-10-2020 7:49pm

keepalive213 wrote: »

Rescue chopper skirting the coast for a while earlier, (mullet penisula) a mate said it landed on one of the beaches. Training??

RESCUE118 from Sligo out on a training flight.

EchoIndia · 03-10-2020 9:02pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Flight checking of the Dublin Runway 16 Glide path and the PAPIs for Runway 34 and 16 underway, in preparation for the runway’s reintroduction to service on 8 October.

Routine flight checks of the main runway tomorrow, both ends. Call sign VOR2

R/T callsign is FlightCal 02. Good to see 16/34 nearly ready for use again.

OneEightSeven · 06-10-2020 3:03am

Why is the coastguard scanning the Irish Sea in this crisscross pattern?

https://fr24.com/EIICG/25b16f33

HeidiHeidi · 06-10-2020 9:49am

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Why is the coastguard scanning the Irish Sea in this crisscross pattern?

https://fr24.com/EIICG/25b16f33

I can't see the flight in your link, but I assume this is what you're referring to?

https://hmcoastguard.blogspot.com/2020/10/search-for-missing-crewman-irish-sea.html

From a post in the Maritime forum, sorry, can't figure out how to link the post.

goingnowhere · 06-10-2020 10:26am

Missing crewman off the WB Yeats, https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-ferries-crew-member-missing-5225000-Oct2020/

Shedite27 · 06-10-2020 9:16pm

Someone having a great time over Dublin for the past 2 hours

06-10-2020 9:20pm

Shedite27 wrote: »

Someone having a great time over Dublin for the past 2 hours

Calibration aircraft flight checking the Runway 10 ILS, the lighting on the crosswind runway 16/34 and the ILS glide path runway 16. The racetrack patterns and orbits are likely just holding for other commercial traffic. The arc from near Lusk round in a semicircle to Dublin bay is, I think, called a “semi-orbit” to check the ILS localiser signal for runway 10 - which will become runway 10R tomorrow night.

HeidiHeidi · 06-10-2020 9:45pm

Shedite27 wrote: »

Someone having a great time over Dublin for the past 2 hours

Smartass answer from Dublin Airport here

https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/status/1313561890270990336?s=19

I love that account!

Suckit · 07-10-2020 1:17am

I saw that earlier when I was out running and then again later when walking the smaller dog and now I noticed it is still flying.
That must be some amount of fuel!

- No idea how much fuel it has used, but it has landed at least 3 times.

Tenger · 07-10-2020 2:01pm

Bloddy hell, now an intern has written an article about it:

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-airport-mystery-plane-flights-19062328

Captain_Crash · 07-10-2020 2:53pm

Tenger wrote: »

Bloddy hell, now an intern has written an article about it:

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-airport-mystery-plane-flights-19062328

Journalism these days is non existent. And you wonder why people lap up the hysteria on the media when this classes as "news" haha

07-10-2020 3:22pm

They can write another article tonight. It’s up again later

Shedite27 · 07-10-2020 5:06pm

Captain_Crash wrote: »

Journalism these days is non existent. And you wonder why people lap up the hysteria on the media when this classes as "news" haha

I'm all in favour of any news that avoids the C word these days. As much as I hate clickbait, I bet a lot of people in Dublin were wondering what it was last night.

HorseSea · 07-10-2020 7:17pm

Captain_Crash wrote: »

Journalism these days is non existent. And you wonder why people lap up the hysteria on the media when this classes as "news" haha

Would not expect anything better from DublinLive, it's the pits - clickbait central.

07-10-2020 8:50pm

The lads are up and about again

49D2F05C-175C-4FE4-AC0C-0D0C9CF817FE.jpeg

paulhardman · 08-10-2020 9:53am

BA's final 747 flights this morning - G-CIVY did a lap of London and a low pass over 27L before going straight to DGX St Athans, G-CIVB (the Negus livery) is still doing laps north of Swindon before landing at its final resting place at GBA Kemble.

Sad to see these two Queens going to become Coke cans, keyrings and spare parts!

Hotblack Desiato · 08-10-2020 10:40am

Wonder if any will be preserved - their size doesn't help there...

BZ · 08-10-2020 1:24pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Wonder if any will be preserved - their size doesn't help there...

G-CIVB will be preserved at Kemble.

Streetlamp · 09-10-2020 10:59am

Dutch Airforce tanker currently departing shannon.

EchoIndia · 09-10-2020 12:36pm

BZ wrote: »

G-CIVB will be preserved at Kemble.

Official source?

nomdeboardie · 09-10-2020 1:12pm

Deleted User wrote: »

The lads are up and about again

49D2F05C-175C-4FE4-AC0C-0D0C9CF817FE.jpeg

Just saw this now - dog on a pogo stick?? :pac:

Who are they?

09-10-2020 1:45pm

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Just saw this now - dog on a pogo stick?? :pac:

Who are they?

They are FCSL, which provides flight checking of navigational aids and Aerodrome ground lighting, both for commissioning and for the regular periodic checks that are required by the Safety Regulator, the IAA.

They’ve been in Dublin for a few days (the evening of the 7 October was the end of their mission this time), doing a routine check on the main runway but also the ILS for runway 16 (the glide path element particularly) and the new lighting on the crosswind runway, including the PAPIs

This was an absolute requirement to bring the crosswind runway back into use on 8 October. Apart from narrowing the crosswind runway, rehabilitating it to give it years of further service, it was also to construct the new junction with the north runway.

The existing main runway, 28/10, was also re-designated 28L/10R in preparation for the parallel runway (which will, perhaps somewhat obviously) be 28R/10L

HTCOne · 09-10-2020 1:59pm

EchoIndia wrote: »

Official source?

https://flyinginireland.com/2020/10/british-airways-to-preserve-one-of-its-boeing-747s/

The Negus Livery one is to be preserved. I read elsewhere Rossiya have bought 7 of the currently mothballed BA 744s, which took a number of people by surprise as the BA fleet are fitted with RRs, the least common engine, and thus more expensive to maintain. Rossiya are running double figures of flights a day to Antalya alone due Russians having received Putin's "vaccine" so they do have the work for the aircraft. Maybe they got them cheap enough to just flog them til the next C/D check and scrap them then.

https://community.infiniteflight.com/t/rossiya-acquires-seven-british-airways-747s/483723

https://onemileatatime.com/rossiya-acquires-british-airways-747/

Edit: Ah, it seems be said they are not selling any 747s to Rossiya after all, shame.

https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-boeing-747-rossiya/

EchoIndia · 09-10-2020 8:07pm

HTCOne wrote: »

https://flyinginireland.com/2020/10/british-airways-to-preserve-one-of-its-boeing-747s/

I’ve still to see an authoritative source. Presumably BA has sold the aircraft to a dismantler, as that’s what goes on at Kemble. That’s not to say that it won’t be saved from such a fate but, even then, survival long-term would be dependent on it being looked after, amongst other factors.

HTCOne · 10-10-2020 1:42pm

EchoIndia wrote: »

HTCOne wrote: »

https://flyinginireland.com/2020/10/british-airways-to-preserve-one-of-its-boeing-747s/

I’ve still to see an authoritative source. Presumably BA has sold the aircraft to a dismantler, as that’s what goes on at Kemble. That’s not to say that it won’t be saved from such a fate but, even then, survival long-term would be dependent on it being looked after, amongst other factors.

Well closest thing to "authoritative" I could find is CNN (maybe when not reporting on US politics they are a bit more trustworthy) who just say the aircraft will be "kept" at Kemble....

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnn.com/travel/amp/boeing-747-british-airways-final-intl-scli-gbr/index.html

Tenger · 10-10-2020 1:57pm

I watch the live stream by JetsTV.
The guy there mentioned a poll about preservation. He said the BOAC livery would be kept.
Can't give a rating on reliability however

EchoIndia · 10-10-2020 2:48pm

Tenger wrote: »

I watch the live stream by JetsTV.
The guy there mentioned a poll about preservation. He said the BOAC livery would be kept.
Can't give a rating on reliability however

Again, not a first-hand source but sounds closer to the truth:

http://thebasource.com/withdrawn-british-airways-b747-400-g-civb-makes-final-flight-in-heathrow-747-farewell/

Jack1985 · 12-10-2020 10:49pm

Seems 16/34 is re-opened, 3 FR's on approach now to RWY34.

nomdeboardie · 12-10-2020 10:51pm

Ah, so the 'alternative' runway is in use again - been a long time since I've had the planes parading over my window :P

ETA: Jack1985's post landed while I was typing

EchoIndia · 12-10-2020 10:54pm

16/34 reopened on 8 October, as discussed in the Dublin infrastructure thread in recent weeks. First landing on 34 in many months and probably first use of the runway since it’s been resurfaced and officially narrowed from 60m to 45m.

Jack1985 · 12-10-2020 11:05pm

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Ah, so the 'alternative' runway is in use again - been a long time since I've had the planes parading over my window :P

ETA: Jack1985's post landed while I was typing

So little aircraft around these evenings, I can imagine quite a few people in North Dublin would have their attention drawn to it!

nomdeboardie · 13-10-2020 12:13am

Jack1985 wrote: »

So little aircraft around these evenings, I can imagine quite a few people in North Dublin would have their attention drawn to it!

(South in my case, under the incoming north-bound stream)

EchoIndia · 13-10-2020 10:12pm

Runway 34 at Dublin just becoming active again, presumably for the remainder of the arrivals this evening.

Varik · 14-10-2020 9:43pm

Sitting minding my own business and I hear a rumbling, though it was a truck roaring down the road but it went on for ages. Went out and looked up and there EIICD making straight for Shannon according to Flightradar24

joujoujou · 15-10-2020 8:29am

After winning French Open last week, Polish tennis player Iga Świątek came back home flying from Paris to Warsaw (with stopover in Salzburg). No surprise how flight number looked like.

Board Walker · 16-10-2020 10:56am

3 large Air Force aircraft just North of Amsterdam in the North sea right now. RAF, USAF and NLAF and another appears to be joining them from Brize Norton. Beluga just south of Cardiff also.

its easy spot the interesting aircraft when the sky's are so clear!

dm09 · 17-10-2020 1:07pm

Lately Aer Lingus have been repositioning aircraft to BHD . This afternoonEI992 DUB-BHD turned South of Dundalk and headed back to Dublin, never climbed above 4700ft so I assume it was an exercise ?

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ei992#25cbf460

Jack1985 · 17-10-2020 2:36pm

Yep, planned - LRD was grounded for a few months awaiting a new sharklet. EI-DUO A330-200, will be doing similar in Shannon after 7pm.

goingnowhere · 17-10-2020 6:47pm

EI reuse the 99x flight numbers and flight radar gets confused

LRD is finally fixed, airframe vibration due a issue with a sharklet

goingnowhere · 17-10-2020 7:47pm

DUO is up as EI994

arbour · 18-10-2020 8:03am

Virgin 787 just took off Dublin to LHR.. looks like it diverted yesterday from LAX to LHR. G-VOOH

Skuxx · 18-10-2020 8:06am

arbour wrote: »

Virgin 787 just took off Dublin to LHR.. looks like it diverted yesterday from LAX to LHR. G-VOOH

These are scheduled cargo flights, it was only on the ground 90 minutes!

hobie14 · 18-10-2020 7:59pm

An-124 on the way in to SNN.... from HHN

Flightradar24 (and other trackers) Thread Part IV

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