Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[ecsrobin]

They were at Scampton airshow at the weekend.

[hammo19]

Goodness me - what's occurring here?

[ecsrobin]

hammo19 said:

Goodness me - what's occurring here?

Apollo is 41sqn and 11 will associate to a pilot on the squadron. They’re a trials squadron so probably testing some new kit.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Using the range in the Wash Weapons Area I would warrant.

[hammo19]

Thanks for the explanation both..

[Smiler.]

[BREMBOV6]

Ilyushin Il-76TD-90VD Flying over the top of Scotland just now. Something different!

[NM62]

UR-ZYD AN-124 looks to be heading to Brize/Fairford on ADSB Exchange ( or it may be on the ground at Fairford)

Edited by NM62 on Wednesday 20th September 11:39

Edited by NM62 on Wednesday 20th September 11:42

[fatboy69]

[fatboy69]

Squawking general emergency so what goes on here?

Look at the flight path!![url]

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[fatboy69]

Seems to have landed safely whatever the issue was.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

How do you know it was Sqwawking 7700?

[fatboy69]

Flight Radar 24 - shows all general emergencies & takes you direct to the flight.

Linked to a Voyager a couple of days ago which had an issue with a trailing fuel hose.

Tracked it from the North Sea until landed safe at Brize.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Ah OK TY.

Couldn't see a Sqwawk on the photo' you posted.

[fatboy69]

For some reason it doesn't show the swuawk on the screen.

[baldy1926]

Flybe had there Belfast Birmingham service divert to Nottingham tonight about 2130. It's still on the ground. They dont normally have anything that size in there.anyone know what the problem was

[djc206]

kapiteinlangzaam said:

Non-Mil stuff doesn't get much higher.....

Pah worked a couple at 510 before. You and your non conventional levels, you boys (and girls) do know RVSM stops at 41 right?

[anonymous-user]

kapiteinlangzaam said:

djc206 said:

Pah worked a couple at 510 before. You and your non conventional levels, you boys (and girls) do know RVSM stops at 41 right?

The Bombardier is rated for FL510 I believe. Must admit I've never seen it though.

More need to start flying up there, it's the only place where there is room left!

I remember when I started at FL430 there was nobody around for a while, you used to get massive shortcuts and always the levels for oceanic crossings, now it’s quite buisy there.

[anonymous-user]

kapiteinlangzaam said:

El stovey said:

kapiteinlangzaam said:

djc206 said:

Pah worked a couple at 510 before. You and your non conventional levels, you boys (and girls) do know RVSM stops at 41 right?

The Bombardier is rated for FL510 I believe. Must admit I've never seen it though.

More need to start flying up there, it's the only place where there is room left!

I remember when I started at FL430 there was nobody around for a while, you used to get massive shortcuts and always the levels for oceanic crossings, now it’s quite buisy there.

The last 18m FL430 has really started to fill up. Its used to be that you could discard a conflict search at 43 as nobody else would ever be up there.... not the case any more!

I expect it’s all the B787s and A350s

[alangla]

baldy1926 said:

Flybe had there Belfast Birmingham service divert to Nottingham tonight about 2130. It's still on the ground. They dont normally have anything that size in there.anyone know what the problem was

It probably went in to East Midlands - there's an oddity with Flybe flights on Flightradar where, because their transponders don't transmit position & FR24 is effectively triangulating them, they only appear once they're above a certain height. The result of this is that it sometimes assumes they've come from/diverted to nearby airports, e.g. you'll see loads that have apparently come/gone from Coventry when they've actually left from Birmingham, same with Nottingham/East Midlands.

On the height thing, if you want really high, look for the balloons, particularly over places in South America - they can be 60k feet + - this example is at 63,500 over Peru just now - https://www.flightradar24.com/HBAL015/eeca7b9