Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[gotoPzero]

Kin hell watching the live and a Challenger 300 nearly just went straight off the side of the runway and then very nearly had a wing strike in the process.

[Petrus1983]

Go around for the Doha 787 flight!

[gotoPzero]

A flight in the line for take off just had to bail out of the queue because a passenger was out of their seat refusing to fly due to the weather LOL (FR662)

[gotoPzero]

United 229 has been waiting so long they now delayed take off as they had to let pax go to the toilets and now cant get everyone back in their seats!!

[Scabutz]

BigJet TV is currently live at Heathrow for any fellow aviation nerds with nothing else to do.

Comparing with FR24 he's on a slight delay

[gotoPzero]

Dublin was madness yesterday. The United ended up going back to the gate as the crew timed out. Must have been on the tarmac about 2 hours in the end waiting for the winds to drop. They had one attempted take off but rejected before they even got to 20kts due to winds being >40kts. Finally got back to the gate but there was no ground crew so they waited even longer.

[Petrus1983]

gotoPzero said:

Dublin was madness yesterday. The United ended up going back to the gate as the crew timed out. Must have been on the tarmac about 2 hours in the end waiting for the winds to drop. They had one attempted take off but rejected before they even got to 20kts due to winds being >40kts. Finally got back to the gate but there was no ground crew so they waited even longer.

I've now added to my geeky and installed LiveATC and Dublin is on it - watching the live stream and listening in is a game changer.

[gotoPzero]

Thats exactly what I do.

[Petrus1983]

gotoPzero said:

Thats exactly what I do.

I'm late to the party

[Scabutz]

Is that the App that costs about £3.70? On the website it days LHR isn't on it but not sure if that's the website and the app has more?

[Petrus1983]

Scabutz said:

Is that the App that costs about £3.70? On the website it days LHR isn't on it but not sure if that's the website and the app has more?

I haven't paid - and no UK airports from what I can see.

[bitchstewie]

Just watching a BA flight from Haneda coming into LHR on Big Jet TV.

I thought it would have flown west from Japan as that's the route the flight took when I went there but it looks like it's flown some sort of "great circle" type route east from Japan?

[Petrus1983]

bhstewie said:

Just watching a BA flight from Haneda coming into LHR on Big Jet TV.

I thought it would have flown west from Japan as that's the route the flight took when I went there but it looks like it's flown some sort of "great circle" type route east from Japan?

It's literally 50% around the world so I imagine weather forecasts would play a major factor with wind patterns. Also I seem to have noticed that some airlines are needing to traverse the West to East route - ie no flying over Russia etc (which Emirates can).

[interstellar]

They seem to going that way but it does look odd on FR24.

[zsdom]

It’s to do with the curvature of the earth, it’s actually shorter to fly an arc rather than as the crow flies

[eharding]

zsdom said:

It’s to do with the curvature of the earth, it’s actually shorter to fly an arc rather than as the crow flies

Any sensible crow would fly the shortest route between two points - the reason this may appear curved when plotted on a map - the Great Circle route - is down to the projection system used for that particular map.

[stanlow45]

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advi...

[Zad]

The direct route flies over some territory which is ~slightly~ unfriendly at the moment. I can see it going a more polar route and flying in from the N/NW. Although going more towards the south would seem slightly shorter.

[MadCaptainJack]

Eurofighter doing loops over Hereford this morning for some reason...

[PRTVR]

MadCaptainJack said:

Eurofighter doing loops over Hereford this morning for some reason...

Nope, can't think of anything in that area that might need practice with anti air systems.....