Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[Penrhyn]

aeropilot said:

There's a few others as well such a military.freedar.uk

Tried the above , it failed unfortunately with Bad Request (Invalid host)

I use https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
Press U at the top of the screen for just Military stuff, it’s good and free.

[NM62]

aeropilot said:

NM62 said:

Two Canadian Registered Alpha Jets (Top Aces) operating out of RAF Leeming

Must be a stop gap until Draken Int are up and running at Teeside (from next month supposedly)

The Alpha Jets are up again this morning - there were two A4's from Europe yesterday as well.

Looking forward to Draken bringing some interesting kit to Teesside (I did a contract at Cobham in 2020 and visited the HQ at Hurn)

[aeropilot]

NM62 said:

The Alpha Jets are up again this morning - there were two A4's from Europe yesterday as well.

Looking forward to Draken bringing some interesting kit to Teesside (I did a contract at Cobham in 2020 and visited the HQ at Hurn)

L159's aren't that interesting......which is what they will be using.

[NM62]

aeropilot said:

NM62 said:

The Alpha Jets are up again this morning - there were two A4's from Europe yesterday as well.

Looking forward to Draken bringing some interesting kit to Teesside (I did a contract at Cobham in 2020 and visited the HQ at Hurn)

L159's aren't that interesting......which is what they will be using.

How many operate in the UK?

1 , 2?

Draken are bringing 8 and then they could always sneak something else in there.

[LHB]

QRA over the Channel. Escorting a French military Dassualt Falcon.

[yellowjack]

Cobham/FRA/Draken (I know it's Draken these days, though) are up and about this morning from Hurn.

Two Falcons, Amber1 (G-FRAR) and Amber2 (G-FRAJ) left Bournemouth at 0839 hrs and 0841 hrs respectively. They've been flying circuits for a while, Amber1 over Dartmoor and Amber2 over the Bristol Channel. I heard them leaving Hurn and turned FR24 on, which led me to TARTN30 (Voyager KC2 ZZ333) flying a tanking circuit between Dartmoor and Penzance. Which in turn led me to a couple of Typhoons which appeared on screen as they broke away from the tanker.

1 = Typhoon pair
2 = Voyager tanker
3 = Amber1
4 = Amber2 (off top of screen)

The Typhoons, QRAS001 (ZK682) and QRAS002 (ZK304) are now pointing at the French coast on a straight line between Penzance and St Malo...

[yellowjack]

LHB said:

QRA over the Channel. Escorting a French military Dassualt Falcon.

Are we looking at the same aircraft?

I'm not seeing the French Falcon on Flightradar24, and "your" Typhoon FGR4 is assigned a different registration/serial number, but the two I'm watching took on fuel, headed straight for the French coast, and are now turned about and heading back across the channel...



ETA: With TARTN39 heading out toward them...

Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 8th June 09:53

[yellowjack]

HM Coastguard Sikorski S-92 leading 'HLE01' G-CRWL (Leonardo AW169), the Cornwall Air Ambulance, from Newquay Airport to Roadford Lake. Either someone is having a bad day, or it's a training sortie. Hopefully the latter...

[DavieBNL]

LHB said:

QRA over the Channel. Escorting a French military Dassualt Falcon.

Slight correction (Practice) QRA!

[wobert]

yellowjack said:

HM Coastguard Sikorski S-92 leading 'HLE01' G-CRWL (Leonardo AW169), the Cornwall Air Ambulance, from Newquay Airport to Roadford Lake. Either someone is having a bad day, or it's a training sortie. Hopefully the latter...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-61737254

[yellowjack]

wobert said:

yellowjack said:

HM Coastguard Sikorski S-92 leading 'HLE01' G-CRWL (Leonardo AW169), the Cornwall Air Ambulance, from Newquay Airport to Roadford Lake. Either someone is having a bad day, or it's a training sortie. Hopefully the latter...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-61737254

Ah. Not good. Presumably the Coastguard helicopter was searching the lake for the missing, as it stayed "on station" over the lake for quite a while. I'm always torn when I see the Air Ambulance at the Royal Bournemouth hospital. I live under the approach when the wind is "normal" and it's always "cool" to see a helicopter close up, but then there's the knowledge that if it is coming in to the hospital pad then someone is having a really bad time of it. I had the Air Ambulance (Hampshire) out to me once when a van driver knocked me off my bike, so I have experience of how it feels to need the help. In my case I didn't get the helicopter ride as the on board doctor cleared me for transport by road, and the helicopter was needed on another "shout" to attend a heart attack on a rural footpath.

[TCEvo]

Just had a Portuguese P3 Orion passing to the north of Chelmsford - very unusual.

[rallye101]

Yes, heard it over Woking about 20min ago...

[NM62]

Saw him on ADSB just as a French KC-135 came over me in Stafford, returning from Iceland ( presume they have replaced the Italians on Patrol up there ), been a lot of "interesting" things of late UAE AF Airbus Tanker yesterday being the highlight

[TCEvo]

NM62 said:

Saw him on ADSB just as a French KC-135 came over me in Stafford, returning from Iceland ( presume they have replaced the Italians on Patrol up there ), been a lot of "interesting" things of late UAE AF Airbus Tanker yesterday being the highlight

Wondered where it was heading - it dropped off the tracker for a bit.

[NM62]

TCEvo said:

NM62 said:

Saw him on ADSB just as a French KC-135 came over me in Stafford, returning from Iceland ( presume they have replaced the Italians on Patrol up there ), been a lot of "interesting" things of late UAE AF Airbus Tanker yesterday being the highlight

Wondered where it was heading - it dropped off the tracker for a bit.

Tried AirNav RadarBox to see where the P-3 was going from / to but the flight number / serial was blocked - sorry

[Penrhyn]

These screenshots taken at 14:05 today.
Two Ukrainian Antonov An124



Royal Air Force R135 flying near the Russian exclusion zone.

[AlexIT]

American Airlines 77-200 AA721 en route from Rome to Charlotte returned back from off the Atlantic Coast and landed in Madrid.
Now holding off RWY 32L with 3 vehicles nearby.

https://fr24.com/AAL721/2c3005df

[Lord_Howit_Hertz]

Couple of days ago had a low flying private looking Heli fly over, really smart.

Quick google and look on ADS-B showed it to be one of the Queens choppers, Reg G-XXED belonging to the 'Keeper of the purse'. Impressive looking heli compared to the usual flying ones above my house.

[Itsallicanafford]

It’s all kicking off over St Albans, we are being buzzed by 4 planes in tight formation doing loops, while a spitfire passes to our south