Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[illmonkey]

red_slr said:

Anyone been watching the DC3 VLOG flying from USA to UK? Quite interesting.

This just flew less than 1000ft directly above my house, very shiny! Did you mean this? Probably not as it departed Chichester...

[red_slr]

ex paa one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpK_XaCFnKA

[J4CKO]

Talking of Dakotas, was mowing and heard what I though was alight aircraft, turned the mower off and it seemed pretty loud and beefy for a single engine light aircraft type, looked where it was coming from and from over a tree emerged a Dakota with only one engine going, which then landed at Manchester as an emergency.

Was very low !

[ecsrobin]

That was the BBMF aircraft.

[PRTVR]

Israeli aircraft over Yorkshire,
https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/multi-nationa...

Exercise cobra warrior.

[PopsandBangs]

Nasa Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747-SP tonight

[Jonnny]

Good spot!

[ecsrobin]

PopsandBangs said:

Nasa Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747-SP tonight

https://interestingengineering.com/nasas-flying-observatory-sofia-set-for-first-research-flight-over-europe

[SHutchinson]

Bioflight over my office. Clearly chemtrails, I wish they'd just be honest about it!!



What a boring job though.

[MarkwG]

A friend of mine does similar mapping flights for the OS, it's precision stuff, & not the only flying he does, he enjoys it.

[RobbyJ]

Last ever Thomas Cook flight just landed :-(

[Marcellus]

Looks like there are still some in the air;

[red_slr]

Will be for a while to come I suspect. Maybe into early October.

[RobbyJ]

Clearly FlightRadar’s notifications are full of s**t! Sad though, especially for my brother in law who’ll now be looking for someone else to fly for.

[Petrus1983]

RobbyJ said:

Clearly FlightRadar’s notifications are full of s**t! Sad though, especially for my brother in law who’ll now be looking for someone else to fly for.

You beat me to it this morning when I got the same notification about “20mins from last flight landing”!

Sorry for you brother in law - I imagine the need for those flights remains, but will be under a different guise.

[alangla]

From what I read on PPrune, Condor are being kept going for the time being (similar to Air Berlin after their collapse) but Thomas Cook UK & Scandinavia have both stopped. It's expected that some of the firms that they were leasing aircraft from (Avion Express, Smartlynx etc) might well fly some of the repatriation flights, so you could see aircraft in Thomas Cook colours flying.

[MarkwG]

red_slr said:

Will be for a while to come I suspect. Maybe into early October.

I doubt with any passengers, though: the fleet will need storing until disposed of & so will need positioning, but once insolvent, the airline won't have insurance for commercial activities.

[RobbyJ]

Petrus1983 said:

Sorry for you brother in law

Thanks, hopefully he’ll find another gig soon.

[anonymous-user]

Marcellus said:

Looks like there are still some in the air;

Those are the condor (Thomas cook Germany) ones.

[JuniorD]

RobbyJ said:

Petrus1983 said:

Sorry for you brother in law

Thanks, hopefully he’ll find another gig soon.

What does he fly? Qatar are on a big recruitment drive for Boeing and Airbus captains and first officers