Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[DavieBNL]

Always need to imagine drawing these lines on a round globe not a flat map.

[djc206]

beanie1983 said:

djc206 said:

Google “great circle route”

That explains it, Cheers :-)

With the North Atlantic there’s also an element of avoiding the jet stream when heading west so you’ll often see aircraft heading seemingly quite far north, even further up than the great circle route to avoid the W-E jet stream. On the way back they’ll quite often be further south than the great circle in order to get a shove up the backside from the jet stream which can add 200mph+ on a good day to their ground speed and despite being a longer route over the ground take less time and more importantly less fuel to fly.

[saaby93]

What does this do? BIO 02

[aeropilot]

I've just had a pair (only one showing up on ASD=B though) of Puma's transit past my house at about 1900ft - lovely to see and hear a pair of them go past.

Looks like they've both just put down into Pirbright?

[Lemming Train]

surveyor said:

Not on FlightRadar, but Doncaster currently has a 747 stuck in the grass...

EGCN C4742/20 RWY 02/20 CLOSED DUE AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTION. 14 JUL
13:05 2020 UNTIL 14 JUL 17:00 2020 ESTIMATED. CREATED: 14
JUL 13:08 2020

TF-AMU from Nairobi. Went off-piste while doing a U-ey at the end of the runway after landing.

Linky: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/238035

[Lemming Train]

beanie1983 said:

djc206 said:

Google “great circle route”

That explains it, Cheers :-)

Nope.

Hex AE61F7 is miscoded on the Herc. It belongs to an Army UH-60. Both are flying at the same time with the same hex. Coding for location and track obviously gets confused as it tries to draw a plot between the 2 sets of pings, hence what you see in the screenshot. In short : the pings in the USA are from the chopper and the pings in Europe are from the Herc.

[djc206]

Lemming Train said:

Nope.

Hex AE61F7 is miscoded on the Herc. It belongs to an Army UH-60. Both are flying at the same time with the same hex. Coding for location and track obviously gets confused as it tries to draw a plot between the 2 sets of pings, hence what you see in the screenshot. In short : the pings in the USA are from the chopper and the pings in Europe are from the Herc.

Well I never. A good example of a great circle none the less!

[Lemming Train]

djc206 said:

Lemming Train said:

Nope.

Hex AE61F7 is miscoded on the Herc. It belongs to an Army UH-60. Both are flying at the same time with the same hex. Coding for location and track obviously gets confused as it tries to draw a plot between the 2 sets of pings, hence what you see in the screenshot. In short : the pings in the USA are from the chopper and the pings in Europe are from the Herc.

Well I never. A good example of a great circle none the less!

AE61F6 through AE6202 are all miscoded on the newer Hercs when they are officially allocated to Army UH-60Ms so you'll see the same thing if any of those 'matching pairs' are flying at the same time.

Hex 249249 (octal 11111111) and 29CBB8 (octal 12345670) are shared by a large number of aircraft due to avionics techies not configuring the correct code in the transponders so just type in any old 8 easy numbers that come to mind - these ones regularly show fake plots like the screenshot above too.

[16v_paddy]

aeropilot said:

We'll see in a few minutes as the Typhoon has just crossed the French coast and pretty much the same altitude as the Chavvy tanker and heading in its direction.

I saw a video on facebook about this earlier, a French Air Force pilot on exchange up at Lossiemouth is participating in the Bastille Day flypast with the Typhoon

EDIT: Turns out the video was from last year but it did say the pilot still had another year to go so it still might have been this

[aeropilot]

16v_paddy said:

aeropilot said:

We'll see in a few minutes as the Typhoon has just crossed the French coast and pretty much the same altitude as the Chavvy tanker and heading in its direction.

I saw a video on facebook about this earlier, a French Air Force pilot on exchange up at Lossiemouth is participating in the Bastille Day flypast with the Typhoon

EDIT: Turns out the video was from last year but it did say the pilot still had another year to go so it still might have been this

That would explain it then, as the track of the Typhoon when I first looked at it orginated at Lossie which I thought was odd, as to why they'd send one from the furthest away base.
Exchange postings are usually 2 years duration.

[FunkyNige]

Does anyone know if commercial airliners that are 'shunting' about between airports due to Covid have their transponders turned off / set so we can't see them?
I've just heard a jet take off from Norwich airport and it's not appearing on Flightradar or the ADSB exchange maps, they had a load of small BA planes as well as some other airlines I can't remember the names of and am just curious if they're leaving. Sometimes I can see them out of my office window so I recognise the sound of a commercial plane taking off versus something military flying overhead

[MarkwG]

FunkyNige said:

Does anyone know if commercial airliners that are 'shunting' about between airports due to Covid have their transponders turned off / set so we can't see them?
I've just heard a jet take off from Norwich airport and it's not appearing on Flightradar or the ADSB exchange maps, they had a load of small BA planes as well as some other airlines I can't remember the names of and am just curious if they're leaving. Sometimes I can see them out of my office window so I recognise the sound of a commercial plane taking off versus something military flying overhead

I'd find that very unlikely: more likely a glitch in the FR24/ADSB system somewhere. I believe some of the stored aircraft have been sold now, so may be departing to new owners.

[tonyvid]

saaby93 said:

What does this do? BIO 02

Aerial survey work - seems they do all sorts of things http://bioflight.dk/

[CharlieH89]

This has flew past my house a few times in the past half an hour, quite low, however it’s quite cloudy so I can’t see it at all.
Surprise they are still practicing what they’ve been doing during lockdown as there are a lot more planes about now.

[bungz]

A AN26 took off from Birmingham International at about 11 last night, bloody noisy when flew over.

[cologne2792]

An A400M just down the road.

[BrettMRC]

Think the Hunter is about to go up again at Yeovilton. Keeps appearing then vanishing, been up a few times in the last 10 days.

[LotusOmega375D]

Quite a lot of heavy metal heading out into the North Sea. 2x E3 Sentry, 2x Voyager, 1x Rivet Joint, 1x KC135, 1x DC10 and a Sentinel doing its octagon tour of East Anglia.

[Barreti]

Our new national liveried plane Is out over the sea to the east of Sunderland, with another Voyager in close formation.

[LotusOmega375D]

Plenty going on out there now. Typhoons, F16 and F35 all zooming around with their respective tankers in attendance.