Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[djc206]

Another Shamrock just gone into Cardiff from Dublin presumably to pick the passengers up

[FourWheelDrift]

Not mine but this is perhaps more scary than cool.



Would you fly on that today?

[Trevatanus]

FourWheelDrift said:

Not mine but this is perhaps more scary than cool.



Would you fly on that today?

Arrived 1230

[FourWheelDrift]

In-flight movie was the Twilight Zone

[fatboy69]

Voyager playing off the Devon/Cornwall coast.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Probably tanking.

That's AARA 12 (Air to Air Refuelling Area 12) active from FL70 to FL280.

[fatboy69]

Didn't know that area was a designated refuelling area.

She is still drawing pretty patterns on FR24!!!!

[Johnnybee]

I thought the RAF would be in the bar by now on a Friday evening

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

That's just the Fast Jet Merchants.

The rest of use worked/work for a living.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

fatboy69 said:

Didn't know that area was a designated refuelling area.

It lies within the boundaries of D064, which was historically used by the Hawks from the TWU at Chivenor, and over the top of D001, which was used by the Nimrods at St Mawgan ('D' designating a Danger Area).

[Boatbuoy]

As a Space Cadet, I once spent a few hours drawing rounded rectangles in that area aboard an RAF Tristar, we were refuelling Tonkas, Jags and Harriers. I remember Lundy being one of the corners of the rectangle.

[Boatbuoy]

On another note, travelling eastbound on the M4 near Reading today, I noticed a Sikorsky S-92 above going west. My girlfriend looked it up on FlightRadar and it suggested it was Irish Coast Guard, and had departed from Heathrow. That seems like an interesting/unusual route. Anyone know the rationale behind it?

[fatboy69]

Strange flight path.




FR24 now has it stationary at 1425 feet. Very odd.

Edited by fatboy69 on Saturday 14th October 18:28

[ecsrobin]

Boatbuoy said:

On another note, travelling eastbound on the M4 near Reading today, I noticed a Sikorsky S-92 above going west. My girlfriend looked it up on FlightRadar and it suggested it was Irish Coast Guard, and had departed from Heathrow. That seems like an interesting/unusual route. Anyone know the rationale behind it?

The Irish use their search and rescue aircraft for medical transfer/donor flights to the UK or return.

[ecsrobin]

fatboy69 said:

Strange flight path.




FR24 now has it stationary at 1425 feet. Very odd.

Edited by fatboy69 on Saturday 14th October 18:28

It’s a skydive aircraft from Dunkeswell so probably it getting up to altitude.

[Boatbuoy]

ecsrobin said:

Boatbuoy said:

On another note, travelling eastbound on the M4 near Reading today, I noticed a Sikorsky S-92 above going west. My girlfriend looked it up on FlightRadar and it suggested it was Irish Coast Guard, and had departed from Heathrow. That seems like an interesting/unusual route. Anyone know the rationale behind it?

The Irish use their search and rescue aircraft for medical transfer/donor flights to the UK or return.

Thank you

[papa3]

1st commercial flight to land on St Helena. Dubbed "the worlds most useless airport" by the press following protracted post completion delays to the commencement of flights.

reuters

[stevensdrs]

Never seen one of these private charter aircraft here before.

[cuprabob]

stevensdrs said:

Never seen one of these private charter aircraft here before.

The flightpath is right over my house

[Eric Mc]

Not seen on radar but seen through binoculars. About 40 minutes ago an Airbus A400M passed overhead Farnborough. I heard the drone and thought, that sounds interesting.

Anyone know who owned it?