Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[tonyvid]

yellowjack said:

C70R said:

marksx said:

Do air ambulances not show on here? Flew over me twice the other day and I couldn't find them.

I only tend to see them on ADSB, same with Police choppers.

I often see the Dorset/Somerset AA on FR24, and recently I've seen the Wiltshire and the Devon helicopters too. I know when they're about to look for them, though, as they often come in to the Royal Bournemouth hospital right over my house. The Coastguard SAR helicopters mostly aren't identified beyond the helicopter type, and they can't land at the hospital's pad here, so they come in to a local school's playing fields (or so I'm told) and transfer casualties to a waiting road ambulance for the last half mile or so. Lots of transfers from the Channel islands, I think...

The East Anglian Helimed shows up on ADS-B as I was watching one that landed in a local village last night.

[MarkwG]

marksx said:

What's happening here then

I'd guess at a problem identified on departure, so diagnosing & planning the next stage, whilst burning off some fuel.

[LotusOmega375D]

Poor buggers. Probably battled through huge queues at MAN check-in and security, boarded the plane, finally took off to a sigh of relief that their much awaited holiday in Cape Verde is actually going ahead, only to find the plane turning back by the time it got to Wales. Nightmare.

[marksx]

Just found this

[gotoPzero]

Thats the usual holding spot for 23 arrivals.

At least the weather is not too bad!

[gotoPzero]

80 minutes in the hold now, that must be fun!

[aeropilot]

Clearly its not so much of an emergency that they need to get down on the ground sharpish, but sufficient to need to RTB rather than continue and thus need to fuel burn to get the weight down to land.

[The spinner of plates]

Looks like heading to East Midlands

[marksx]

Or maybe not. Turned back

[gotoPzero]

Looks like he is heading for the northern route in via Bury, Oldham, Glossop and then turn onto finals towards Stockport.

[gotoPzero]

Magical mystery tour continues!

[One Amp Andy]

Well, they've just flown over me, and one thing I can say, is it's not on fire

[LotusOmega375D]

Just an update on the route for those not following this:

[gotoPzero]

The area he is in now is where they hold when its busy on week day mornings quite often so i guess they just moved him for what ever reason - prob the pax getting a bit queasy going round and round and round..... and round and round...

[gotoPzero]

On finals....

[gotoPzero]

Going around?

[gotoPzero]

Vehicles on the runway. Its gone right to the very end of 23L

[gotoPzero]

Waiting traffic has resumed movements so assume they got down all ok.

[MarkwG]

As I recall it, the TUI 767s don't have the dump option, as that generation of Boeing can land at max take off weight anyway, subject to additional maintenance checks afterwards. Hence better to burn it on a guided tour, than tie up the aircraft on the ground for the extra checks.

[Claret m]

MarkwG said:

As I recall it, the TUI 767s don't have the dump option, as that generation of Boeing can land at max take off weight anyway, subject to additional maintenance checks afterwards. Hence better to burn it on a guided tour, than tie up the aircraft on the ground for the extra checks.

The 767-200 can not dump fuel, but the 300 can. However, it can only dump from the centre tank, so with full wing tanks and a full load of pax you are still over the max landing mass. It remains the captain's choice to land over weight or burn fuel to below MLM.