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g7jtk said:
Can someone tell me why some of the planes are blue. Some are pink on the old version.
Male and female aeroplanes.
Only noticed blue the other day which I looked up and found to be satellite ADSB.
Pink, had to look that up to, but it does appear that it is orange, which I did know and is FAA supplied ADSB data which is on 5 minute delay.
At the moment there are lots of planes in the air, but it's all countries letting their people come home. The eu has banned incoming flights, apart from EU citizens coming home and of course that's still a lot of people and will be for the next week or two. Then it'll go really quiet.
In england most planes are going out nearly empty but coming back full. I'm not sure what the colours are, but it'll be to do with their repatriation status or something like that.
In england most planes are going out nearly empty but coming back full. I'm not sure what the colours are, but it'll be to do with their repatriation status or something like that.
Colours, as stated further up the thread, are to do with the method the aircraft are being tracked by.
In terms of number of flights, some will be re-patriation, some will be freight (And some passenger aircraft are running still because of the freight capacity in the hold still being in demand), some will be running very very empty.
But even with that, it's far FAR less busy than usual. If you look at the Heathrow approaches, nothing is being stacked (I haven't seen aircraft stacking for several days actually) and at time of writing, there are 3 aircraft on final approach, with another one about to join, then another two 5 or 10 minutes out. Compare that with a Thursday evening a month or so ago - there'd be a constant stream of aircraft joining the final approach, with at least one stack feeding them in constantly. Despite there still being aircraft in the sky, the numbers have actually gone through the floor..
In terms of number of flights, some will be re-patriation, some will be freight (And some passenger aircraft are running still because of the freight capacity in the hold still being in demand), some will be running very very empty.
But even with that, it's far FAR less busy than usual. If you look at the Heathrow approaches, nothing is being stacked (I haven't seen aircraft stacking for several days actually) and at time of writing, there are 3 aircraft on final approach, with another one about to join, then another two 5 or 10 minutes out. Compare that with a Thursday evening a month or so ago - there'd be a constant stream of aircraft joining the final approach, with at least one stack feeding them in constantly. Despite there still being aircraft in the sky, the numbers have actually gone through the floor..
Edited by pip t on Thursday 19th March 18:30
pip t said:
Colours, as stated further up the thread, are to do with the method the aircraft are being tracked by.
In terms of number of flights, some will be re-patriation, some will be freight (And some passenger aircraft are running still because of the freight capacity in the hold still being in demand), some will be running very very empty.
But even with that, it's far FAR less busy than usual. If you look at the Heathrow approaches, nothing is being stacked (I haven't seen aircraft stacking for several days actually) and at time of writing, there are 3 aircraft on final approach, with another one about to join, then another two 5 or 10 minutes out. Compare that with a Thursday evening a month or so ago - there'd be a constant stream of aircraft joining the final approach, with at least one stack feeding them in constantly. Despite there still being aircraft in the sky, the numbers have actually gone through the floor..
Down to just under 4000 per day in the UK. Normal at this time of year would be slightly in excess of 6000 if memory serves. You can follow the numbers at the bottom of this page https://www.nats.aero/In terms of number of flights, some will be re-patriation, some will be freight (And some passenger aircraft are running still because of the freight capacity in the hold still being in demand), some will be running very very empty.
But even with that, it's far FAR less busy than usual. If you look at the Heathrow approaches, nothing is being stacked (I haven't seen aircraft stacking for several days actually) and at time of writing, there are 3 aircraft on final approach, with another one about to join, then another two 5 or 10 minutes out. Compare that with a Thursday evening a month or so ago - there'd be a constant stream of aircraft joining the final approach, with at least one stack feeding them in constantly. Despite there still being aircraft in the sky, the numbers have actually gone through the floor..
Edited by pip t on Thursday 19th March 18:30
Normally Heathrow would be landing around 40 per hour. I’m not sure what the current number is but as you say it’s way down.
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