Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[Petrus1983]

[ApOrbital]

Three pumas flying very low in mk this morning only got to see one

[motomk]

Transited through a bit of the world I know quite well.

https://www.flightradar24.com/RA2900G/a50cc6a

http://konyukhov.ru/en/index.html#map

[SteveC72]

I noticed this the other month and thought it was rather creative.

[Geneve]

towser44 said:

This is JKs Robinson :-)

Think he's sold it.

Never used 'FlightRadar', but I often get told where I've been - which suggests 'big brother' is watching. Presumably it interrogates the squawk from Mode Sierra transponders?

[weeboot]

Geneve said:

Think he's sold it.

Never used 'FlightRadar', but I often get told where I've been - which suggests 'big brother' is watching. Presumably it interrogates the squawk from Mode Sierra transponders?

ADS-B transponders, largely.
Also MLAT calcs from non-ADS-B aircraft.

I run a receiver station which feeds FlightRadar and FlightAware.

[RobbyJ]

I was wondering if J Kay had sold it. It was based at Heliair in Booker (High Wycombe) as he lives/lived near Maidenhead and it now seems to be based in Staverton?

[Fabric]

Just watched a plane squawk 7700, then divert back to EDI (UA2081) - turns out it's the same one that performed an emergency landing there the day before due to a fuel leak. Comments on Twitter suggesting it stopped off runway too.

[essayer]

Fabric said:

Just watched a plane squawk 7700, then divert back to EDI (UA2081) - turns out it's the same one that performed an emergency landing there the day before due to a fuel leak. Comments on Twitter suggesting it stopped off runway too.

Not that this should be a 7700 thread, but today an Iran Air A300 diverted into Vienna with an emergency, took off again, and has just diverted into Istanbul with another emergency!
Their new deal with Airbus can't come quick enough

[hammo19]

Balloon in Caribbean

[mybrainhurts]

SteveC72 said:

I noticed this the other month and thought it was rather creative.

What a cock....

[Jezzerh]

essayer said:

Not that this should be a 7700 thread, but today an Iran Air A300 diverted into Vienna with an emergency, took off again, and has just diverted into Istanbul with another emergency!
Their new deal with Airbus can't come quick enough

I noticed that too! If I were a passenger I'd be taking the long way home I reckon!

[ApOrbital]

G-XXEB 405FE9
The Queens Helicopter Flight TQF1R*
United Kingdom Civil
Sikorsky S-76 C++ S76

Altitude:
2850 ft
Speed:
Heading:
300.2°
Vertical Speed:
Squawk:
3710
Species:
Helicopter
Transponder:
ADS-B
Latitude:
51.57271°
Longitude:
-1.83769°

[RobbyJ]

This just flew over my house slow and low a minute ago......




http://www.catalina.org.uk/our-catalina-g-pbya/

[jhfozzy]

ApOrbital said:

G-XXEB 405FE9
The Queens Helicopter Flight TQF1R*
United Kingdom Civil
Sikorsky S-76 C++

Got a "cool starry bra" about the Queen's helicopter.

A relative of mine is a high court sheriff (sort of super bailiff) and he was at an aerodrome once trying to find an aircraft to "clamp".

Walking through different hangars, he came across a locked hanger, he forced entry (he's allowed to on business premises) and inside was a boxed off area. Trying to get into this area, he tripped an alarm or something as all of a sudden he was surrounded by "Men in black".

Turns out, after a lot of identification showing and phonecalls that he was trying to break into the Queen's helicopter compound.

It may be bulls**t, but it was a good story.

[PD9]

Nasa 747 - Departs and lands at Christchurch on looping flights.

[Greendubber]

PD9 said:

Nasa 747 - Departs and lands at Christchurch on looping flights.

Is that the one with the telescope in the back?

[essayer]

PD9 said:

Nasa 747 - Departs and lands at Christchurch on looping flights.

I'd love to see a 747 do a loop

[A6Ced]

RobbyJ said:

This just flew over my house slow and low a minute ago......




http://www.catalina.org.uk/our-catalina-g-pbya/

Think i saw that earlier flying northeast-ish over St. Albans around 7pm.

[RobbyJ]

Yes it flew back over me too again late this afternoon