Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[anonymous-user]

JuniorD said:

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

Emirates are short too.

They’re only short though because not enough people want to live and work there and many expats are going home to Europe and the USA and Australia etc as opportunities pick up there.

Things are actually looking up in the U.K. with many U.K. airlines recruiting at the moment.

[RobbyJ]

He flies A321’s currently (well as of yesterday), he’s been on the Airbus for a couple of years and was previously flying Boeing, I think 757’s. He’s an experienced captain so hopefully he’ll be OK. Thanks for the pointers.

[alangla]

https://www.flightradar24.com/AWC1914/223600dc - SmartLynx aircraft in Thomas Cook colours on a Titan flight number, presumably heading out on a repatriation flight. There's rented aircraft from all sorts of airlines currently floating about on Titan flight numbers.

[LotusOmega375D]

Titan have been busy all summer with TUI UK. Presumably due to the lack of aircraft caused by the 737 Max grounding and delivery delays. We went on Titan’ Airbuses to/from Zante recently. Very nicely configured aircraft. Downloaded their app and watched some movies for free on my iPad.

[Boatbuoy]

Spotted this last night, seemed a little unusual. A Malaysian A380, heading north out of Mallorca. At 26,000ft just south of Birmingham and descending.

I wonder if the CAA chartered it during layover for TC customer repatriation?



ETA - A search on FR24 suggests it went to Manchester, and has been back and forth on this route for a few days.



ETA 2 - It seems that it is indeed part of 'Operation Matterhorn'.

https://simpleflying.com/malaysia-airlines-a380-re...

Edited by Boatbuoy on Thursday 26th September 07:30

[LotusOmega375D]

Yes on one of the BBC TV News snippets they showed holiday makers boarding an A380 (using steps only), but didn’t say where it was located.

I flew in to Luton last night and there was an Il-76 parked up on the hangar side of the apron. Anyone know what it was doing there?

[Boatbuoy]

LotusOmega375D said:

I flew in to Luton last night and there was an Il-76 parked up on the hangar side of the apron. Anyone know what it was doing there?

The IL-76 has been in to Luton twice this week. I understand that it's been contracted by Thompson / TUI to transport engines out to a stranded B757 somewhere.

[alangla]

The Malaysian A380 has been doing Manchester to Palma all week. There's a Hi-Fly A380 also doing Turkey (Dalaman?) to Gatwick as well.

This one caught my eye. Titan clearly have some sort of contract based out of Bilbao, so their 767 and 757 seem to do runs from there to Germany all day. Come the evening, they run empty to a holiday resort, do a Matterhorn flight back to the UK during the night then go back to Bilbao/Germany to continue for the next day.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-powd
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-powh

[red_slr]

My friend was flown back on a 380 from Spain was full to the brim apparently.

[PRTVR]

Two C130 combat kings over Ireland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_HC-130
At a distance it could look like six engines.

[Seventy]

This passed fairly low over me a few minutes ago.
Lovely sound.

[ecsrobin]

Seventy said:

This passed fairly low over me a few minutes ago.
Lovely sound.

Do you mean hours?

[yellowjack]

Freddy Mercury lives!

Or at least his image does, on the tail fin of a Boeing 737...



Norwegian Air International flight DY4224, 1940 hrs Malaga to Stockholm.

[yellowjack]

Oh, and watching the cycling World Championship Road Race this morning, TV pictures from the motorbikes were lost due to the TV Relay aeroplane having to disappear from above Harrogate to Doncaster (RAF Finningley) to refuel. So I opened up FlightRadar to have a look at it's route...




https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/OO-LET

[Seventy]

ecsrobin said:

Do you mean hours?

I was stuck in photo time.
Actually started to post then got distracted.

[DavieBNL]

Goodness only knows what sitting down the back while the aircraft does that all day must feel like; can't see a vomit icon in the selection here!

Must be a bit soul destroying for the pilot as well, not my cup of tea.

[Petrus1983]

DavieBNL said:

Goodness only knows what sitting down the back while the aircraft does that all day must feel like; can't see a vomit icon in the selection here!

Must be a bit soul destroying for the pilot as well, not my cup of tea.

HTH.

[DavieBNL]

..ever grateful, thanks - never know when I might need than icon in the future!

[alangla]

Flightradar usually points out the TV relay planes during the Tour De France - generally you get 2 or 3 circling around like that all day at different heights. Unfortunately they never seem to have the tracks of the TV helicopters though!

[Zad]

I suspect the helicopters are usually too low to show up on radar or passive ADSB, but yes, it is a bit annoying.