Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[ghost83]

Couldn’t see it on radar but it’s overhead

[red_slr]

Aircraft declaring emergency coming into Birmingham. Looks like it tried for Bristol. Perhaps fuel mayday due to wx?

[red_slr]

Looks like it landed ok.

[rs4kev]

djc206 said:

Petrus1983 said:

Not on FlightRadar but on my flight this morning - this is at the point of touchdown at Gatwick - at what point do they say it’s too foggy these days!! Obviously glad they didn’t divert - it was even a perfect landing!

Eta - may need to turn your head sideways!

They don’t. Autoland to the rescue

Landed in dense fog at Gatwick earlier in year. Was a perfect landing except it was in the middle of cabin announcement saying we will shortly be landing etc, cue skip of heart

[mebe]

rs4kev said:

Landed in dense fog at Gatwick earlier in year. Was a perfect landing except it was in the middle of cabin announcement saying we will shortly be landing etc, cue skip of heart

Anything silly spotted, late afternoon 16/10 Cambridge area? Seriously pilots are totally childish 😁

[MarkwG]

mebe said:

Anything silly spotted, late afternoon 16/10 Cambridge area? Seriously pilots are totally childish ?

Any other clues...?

[lufbramatt]

Fiddling with altitude filters, this was the highest flying thing I could see anywhere:



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_...

[S100HP]

Not sure where to start with this, but saw this flying very low over the new forest yesterday. It was heading between Southampton and Bournemouth by the looks of it, very low and very slow. Spotted it around 1145 near ashurst.

Any ideas why so low?

[Petrus1983]

S100HP said:

Not sure where to start with this, but saw this flying very low over the new forest yesterday. It was heading between Southampton and Bournemouth by the looks of it, very low and very slow. Spotted it around 1145 near ashurst.

Any ideas why so low?

Assumed it was coming into land, curiousity led me to Google and found this -

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/17073252.br...

Good spot!

[S100HP]

Cheers for that. Link to flight radar was in comments

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ba9175

[The Brummie]

Four Dassault Falcons making pretty patterns in the sky over Iffracombe.



Anyone know what they are doing?

[MarkwG]

Annoying the Navy maybe? Thursday war, I'll look forward to them streaming back later.

[Petrus1983]

The Brummie said:

Four Dassault Falcons making pretty patterns in the sky over Iffracombe.



Anyone know what they are doing?

Think they’re the CinQ(??) jets - they must have massive air time as they leave Bournemouth (usually 2) every day - I saw this post at lunchtime and then ironically just saw this overhead whilst nr Poole at 15.50 -

[Trevatanus]

craig1912 said:

Petrus1983 said:

El S - I’m impressed! Indeed a 787 with the Captain saying circa 200m - grab a virtual pint on me!

Once landed in Turin in fog so thick I didn’t realise we were landing until we actually did. It was an A320 and the captain said that we were lucky as a few planes were circling waiting for it to clear for an hour. Well impressed

I did the same when returning from Honeymoon in Thailand in LHR in November 1996. Was looking forward to seeing the local landmarks, and the first thing I saw was Hatton Cross underground station.

[red_slr]

BA 747 holding over the Kent area with landing gear issue. SQ 1160

[red_slr]

Now over Croydon, 8000' maintaining around 180kts.

[red_slr]

Landed at Heathrow. Dumped all its fuel, probably a load of p*ssed off pax!

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Petrus1983 said:

Think they’re the CinQ(??) jets

Cobham owned (what used to be FRA) jets, act as target facilities aircraft for the Navy.

[ecsrobin]

Petrus1983 said:

The Brummie said:

Four Dassault Falcons making pretty patterns in the sky over Iffracombe.



Anyone know what they are doing?

Think they’re the CinQ(??) jets - they must have massive air time as they leave Bournemouth (usually 2) every day - I saw this post at lunchtime and then ironically just saw this overhead whilst nr Poole at 15.50 -

They are based at Bournemouth and do all the Royal Navy simulated attacks. There are also fleet based at Durham tees valley that play with the RAF in the North Sea.

[The Brummie]

Anyone know why Thomas Cook Airbus A330 G-VYGM is on the ground at Brize Norton?