Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[JuniorD]

TheHighlander said:

I live opposite Inverness Airport - 1mile across the water from it.

There's been quite late on some private jets landing that show no call signs, my friend who works for the ground handling crew was sending me snaps of blacked out Range Rovers waiting on the apron, then heading off without the passengers entering the terminal at all.

Always see odd activity late on into the night.

Lots of well-heeled middle eastern types and other aristocratic folk would go into Inverness to go shooting in the NW Highlands

[alangla]

Prompted by a Flightradar app notification - https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW9172/22f7875c - BA flying a 747 4 miles from Cardiff to St. Athan for scrap. The thing I don't understand is why it would take off eastbound from Cardiff and land westbound at St. Athan - surely airfields that close together would tend to have the operational runway facing the same way? The TUI 737 that left Cardiff after it also took off eastbound, so it seems St. Athan is the oddity. Also, Virgin's G-VBIG is at St. Athan as well, is that for the scrappy or being maintained?

[MarkwG]

alangla said:

Prompted by a Flightradar app notification - https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW9172/22f7875c - BA flying a 747 4 miles from Cardiff to St. Athan for scrap. The thing I don't understand is why it would take off eastbound from Cardiff and land westbound at St. Athan - surely airfields that close together would tend to have the operational runway facing the same way?

If there's nothing else to affect, wind direction etc it's the shortest which gives a reasonable profile I imagine.

[naturals]

TheHighlander said:

I live opposite Inverness Airport - 1mile across the water from it.

There's been quite late on some private jets landing that show no call signs, my friend who works for the ground handling crew was sending me snaps of blacked out Range Rovers waiting on the apron, then heading off without the passengers entering the terminal at all.

Always see odd activity late on into the night.

I parked up next to a Gulfstream belonging to Bob Dylan at INV last summer. Pretty anonymous-looking but we Googled the reg and it came up. I believe he has a gaff locally. Reg was N473CW if you're curious.

[FATCO]

alangla said:

Prompted by a Flightradar app notification - https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW9172/22f7875c - BA flying a 747 4 miles from Cardiff to St. Athan for scrap. The thing I don't understand is why it would take off eastbound from Cardiff and land westbound at St. Athan - surely airfields that close together would tend to have the operational runway facing the same way? The TUI 737 that left Cardiff after it also took off eastbound, so it seems St. Athan is the oddity. Also, Virgin's G-VBIG is at St. Athan as well, is that for the scrappy or being maintained?

It’s less taxi distance from the BA hanger to runway 12 at Cardiff.

[alangla]

FATCO said:

alangla said:

Prompted by a Flightradar app notification - https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW9172/22f7875c - BA flying a 747 4 miles from Cardiff to St. Athan for scrap. The thing I don't understand is why it would take off eastbound from Cardiff and land westbound at St. Athan - surely airfields that close together would tend to have the operational runway facing the same way? The TUI 737 that left Cardiff after it also took off eastbound, so it seems St. Athan is the oddity. Also, Virgin's G-VBIG is at St. Athan as well, is that for the scrappy or being maintained?

It’s less taxi distance from the BA hanger to runway 12 at Cardiff.

Yeah, but it was the westbound landing at St. Athan that I was querying. The TUI flight behind going out on 12 kind of fits with Cardiff being eastbound at that point, but the surprise was that it didn't have a long trek west for an eastbound landing at St. Athan. Anyway, I take it it (and G-VBIG) are being introduced to a JCB just now?

[MarkwG]

alangla said:

FATCO said:

alangla said:

Prompted by a Flightradar app notification - https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW9172/22f7875c - BA flying a 747 4 miles from Cardiff to St. Athan for scrap. The thing I don't understand is why it would take off eastbound from Cardiff and land westbound at St. Athan - surely airfields that close together would tend to have the operational runway facing the same way? The TUI 737 that left Cardiff after it also took off eastbound, so it seems St. Athan is the oddity. Also, Virgin's G-VBIG is at St. Athan as well, is that for the scrappy or being maintained?

It’s less taxi distance from the BA hanger to runway 12 at Cardiff.

Yeah, but it was the westbound landing at St. Athan that I was querying. The TUI flight behind going out on 12 kind of fits with Cardiff being eastbound at that point, but the surprise was that it didn't have a long trek west for an eastbound landing at St. Athan.

As I said above, if the wind isn't an issue, it's less track mileage to take off south, away from terrain, turn east then onto left base & down the final approach. If the wind isn't favouring a particular direction, why go further than you need to?

[RobbyJ]

Certainly not on ADSB but spotted one of the SAS helicopters fly over west of London 30 mins ago and now just heard the news about an incident on London Bridge.

Edited by RobbyJ on Friday 29th November 14:39

[Trevatanus]

RobbyJ said:

Certainly not on ADSB but spotted one of the SAS helicopters fly over west of London 30 mins ago and now just heard the news about an incident on London Bridge.

Edited by RobbyJ on Friday 29th November 14:39

ahem, SBS

[RobbyJ]

SBS, they are SAS heli’s aren’t they? Or are you in the know SBS were on board?

https://www.eliteukforces.info/air-support/658-Squ...

[ecsrobin]

RobbyJ said:

SBS, they are SAS heli’s aren’t they? Or are you in the know SBS were on board?

https://www.eliteukforces.info/air-support/658-Squ...

Guessing he’s SBS and on board the helicopter.

[RobbyJ]

Is that Air Force 1 over the UK right now?

[LotusOmega375D]

Could it be Donald heading home from Afghanistan?

[anonymous-user]

Travelled in disguise as a tanker

https://twitter.com/civmilair/status/1200540610802...

[ApOrbital]

Massive boom over whitby last night lasted 30 mins,RAF having a look at the dodgy russians in the north sea?

[RobbyJ]

Sonic boom as jets intercept aircraft with lost radio contact https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50622110


Apparently it was a ex El AL 767 on a positioning flight from Tel Aviv to the USA

https://www.timesofisrael.com/flight...medium=twit...

Edited by RobbyJ on Sunday 1st December 19:55

[lost in espace]

Caught on video in Herts

https://video.nest.com/clip/482f87f9826345d5aec640...

The bush shakes a bit with the boom.

[red_slr]

Super cool aircraft

[louiebaby]

red_slr said:

Super cool aircraft

[RobbyJ]