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[aeropilot]

Dashnine said:

The BA400 last 747 flight to Kemble is still holding prior to landing, I assumed burning off fuel from min take off to max landing weight, but the St Athan BA747 went straight in. Any ideas?

They would have fuelled it only for the flight so no need to burn off. I suspect they are holding because of the weather at Kemble, which looked pretty grim, and its a VFR only approach to Kemble.
Doing low level flyby of Brize now.

[Dashnine]

Thanks - looks like coming into Kemble now. :-(

[aeropilot]

Looks like its now on approach into Kemble now.

[Trevatanus]

PRTVR said:

The last two 747s with BA on the way to be broken up, a sad day.

Half correct. The one that flew to Kemble (Negus Retro) is apparently going to be preserved.

[LotusOmega375D]

Just heard this An124 fly over. Slightly louder than the average freighter. Come from Turin, but don’t know where it’s heading.

[djc206]

Keflavik according the FR24 so I’d guess somewhere stateside after that.

[LHB]

This USAF Drone has been to some interesting places

[Quattromaster]

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Any idea why two big jets going from Frankfurt-Atlanta not 10 mins apart on takeoff would go completely different routes.

Edited by Quattromaster on Saturday 10th October 17:11

[saaby93]

Quattromaster said:

Any idea why two big jets going from Frankfurt-Atlanta not 10 mins apart on takeoff would go completely different routes.

2 engines vs 4 engines?

[aeropilot]

saaby93 said:

Quattromaster said:

Any idea why two big jets going from Frankfurt-Atlanta not 10 mins apart on takeoff would go completely different routes.

2 engines vs 4 engines?

Except the one with two engines is taking the longer over water route, with less divert options and the one with four engines is taking the shorter less over water route with more divert options.....

[saaby93]

aeropilot said:

saaby93 said:

Quattromaster said:

Any idea why two big jets going from Frankfurt-Atlanta not 10 mins apart on takeoff would go completely different routes.

2 engines vs 4 engines?

Except the one with two engines is taking the longer over water route, with less divert options and the one with four engines is taking the shorter less over water route with more divert options.....

Certification?
Did 4 engined planes typically have to follow a land based route whereas the 2 engined planes are so much more reliable (half the engines to go wrong) they can take the risk

[djc206]

More likely to do with avoiding the jet stream at the different levels they intend to fly at or simply just different operators doing things slightly differently. We get quite a bit of variation between operators for a lot of things, I wouldn’t even know where to start with trying to rationalise it but I’m sure a computer somewhere has decided that it’s the most cost efficient way.

[Quattromaster]

At the same time a 747 was doing Luxembourg- Atlanta, and going straight out like the 777.

[djc206]

Plenty of factors at play. ATC costs vary a fair bit so maybe that factored? Some very clever software behind the scenes no doubt figured it was the cheaper route for some reason.

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djc206 said:

Plenty of factors at play. ATC costs vary a fair bit so maybe that factored? Some very clever software behind the scenes no doubt figured it was the cheaper route for some reason.

Yup, and Lufthansa (Group IT) is the main player in that.

https://www.lhsystems.com/solutions/flight-operati...

And even British Airways is their customer, as it saves them loads of money.

https://www.lhsystems.com/article/british-airways-...

[tedmus]

Oil Spill Response 727 came over earlier, on it's way to Valley to drop water on the runway



https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3375756732531503

[eharding]

tedmus said:

Oil Spill Response 727 came over earlier, on it's way to Valley to drop water on the runway



https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3375756732531503

You want water dropped on a runway in North Wales...in October. Can't you just wait for 10 minutes and get it for free?

[Johnnybee]

They did that at the Scampton airshow in 2017.

[LotusOmega375D]

One of four Air Force 2 type 757s just departing Stansted.

[Fabric]

Royal Heli?