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Does anyone else think the FR emergency alerts are going a bit squiffy? I used to get an alert on my phone with the squawk code and when you clicked on the link you could follow the aircraft and it felt real time. Now the alert message says "General Alert" and when you click on the link it feels like you are watching a replay - the plan moves so far then goes back to where it was, the height cycles round etc.
Anyone else seeing this or is it my phone/FR app playing silly buggers?
Anyone else seeing this or is it my phone/FR app playing silly buggers?
Eric Mc said:
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?
They fly over my house (West Wiltshire) pretty much without fail every single day, often one in the late afternoon/early evening. Very distinctive sound compared to the C17.Anyone know who owned it?
Are they not in service fully now? I just assumed they were RAF.
48k said:
Does anyone else think the FR emergency alerts are going a bit squiffy? I used to get an alert on my phone with the squawk code and when you clicked on the link you could follow the aircraft and it felt real time. Now the alert message says "General Alert" and when you click on the link it feels like you are watching a replay - the plan moves so far then goes back to where it was, the height cycles round etc.
Anyone else seeing this or is it my phone/FR app playing silly buggers?
Don't know about FR but this post prompted me to look at ADSB where I saw this one with an emergency and a few others following the circuit.Anyone else seeing this or is it my phone/FR app playing silly buggers?
ukaskew said:
Eric Mc said:
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?
They fly over my house (West Wiltshire) pretty much without fail every single day, often one in the late afternoon/early evening. Very distinctive sound compared to the C17.Anyone know who owned it?
Are they not in service fully now? I just assumed they were RAF.
They remind me in many ways of the Short Belfasts. We use to see, and hear, Belfasts passing overhead Ireland on the way from Lyneham/Brize Norton to North America..
ukaskew said:
Eric Mc said:
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?
They fly over my house (West Wiltshire) pretty much without fail every single day, often one in the late afternoon/early evening. Very distinctive sound compared to the C17.Anyone know who owned it?
Are they not in service fully now? I just assumed they were RAF.
Flights were landing north-south rather than the usual east/west or west/east at Dublin yesterday because of the wind - seemed to be loads of holding both before landing and takeoff.
Not entirely sure what happened here - https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/fi532#f... - all seems normal from Keflavik, then squawks an emergency somewhere around Glenrothes, does a lazy descending circuit towards Edinburgh, but then heads for Stirling and Glasgow (possibly because Icelandair serve Glasgow already) - whatever it was can't have been major as it's back on its way to Munich again.
Not entirely sure what happened here - https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/fi532#f... - all seems normal from Keflavik, then squawks an emergency somewhere around Glenrothes, does a lazy descending circuit towards Edinburgh, but then heads for Stirling and Glasgow (possibly because Icelandair serve Glasgow already) - whatever it was can't have been major as it's back on its way to Munich again.
Edited by alangla on Tuesday 17th October 12:39
djc206 said:
.......My least favourite aircraft type the PC-12.
Booo!! 
They are ok! have to look after a lot of them, day and night. These ones are the Flying Doctors so they go to all weird and wonderful places. Occasionally they do get run over by a B717 or a Fokker 100.
Citations now there is one that makes you bite your tongue! Is that a fast-one or a slow one? There are too many different types.
Trevatanus said:
ukaskew said:
Eric Mc said:
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?
They fly over my house (West Wiltshire) pretty much without fail every single day, often one in the late afternoon/early evening. Very distinctive sound compared to the C17.Anyone know who owned it?
Are they not in service fully now? I just assumed they were RAF.
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