Weird Flight

[Biker 1]

Anybody got any ideas?
https://www.flightradar24.com/RRR6891/246dea71

[gazza285]

Military flight from Belgrade to Northolt, what of it?

[Getragdogleg]

It didn't exactly go directly.

[gazza285]

Does it have to? I'm more surprised that a military flight was on Flightradar24.

[number 46]

Bringing in under cover fruit pickers??!!

[Big-Bo-Beep]

suck fake, dont people check the title before pressing submit ?

the word is weird, spelt W E I R D

[Biker 1]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

suck fake, dont people check the title before pressing submit ?

the word is weird, spelt W E I R D

Not when you've had one too many! 'Do not' I believe is abbreviated with an apostrophe.....

Anyway, I haven't heard a plane go over my house in weeks, so it was a bit odd at relatively low altitude to go straight over my place. I followed it on Flight Radar: it went over LGW, & St Paul's in central London. Just seemed a weird, indirect flight path.

[littleredrooster]

Biker 1 said:

Big-Bo-Beep said:

suck fake, dont people check the title before pressing submit ?

the word is weird, spelt W E I R D

Not when you've had one too many! 'Do not' I believe is abbreviated with an apostrophe.....

Sentences usually start with a capital letter, too. People in glass houses and all that...

[Pothole]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

suck fake, dont people check the title before pressing submit ?

the word is weird, spelt W E I R D

I'm sure there's a forum rule about not trying to circumvent the swear filter. Also, the phrase is really shortened from "for the fake of suck" so it's "for suck's fake" using the possessive apostrophe, although I see they're your Achilles' heel so I'll overlook that. Thirdly, are you a septic?

[MikeGTi]

Getragdogleg said:

It didn't exactly go directly.

Military flights can require separate diplomatic clearances to transit certain country's airspace, it may be that this wasn't or couldn't be obtained, so they flew around that airspace.


Or, it could just have been something basic like avoiding weather.

[Puggit]

Northolt spotters group went mental

https://www.facebook.com/groups/461441560556667/

[Fluid]

MikeGTi said:

Getragdogleg said:

It didn't exactly go directly.

Military flights can require separate diplomatic clearances to transit certain country's airspace, it may be that this wasn't or couldn't be obtained, so they flew around that airspace.


Or, it could just have been something basic like avoiding weather.

Can’t see what route it took, but a lot f countries have over fly restrictions for military aircraft. Italy is one, they really don’t like our aircraft in their air space.

[gazza285]

Fluid said:

Can’t see what route it took, but a lot f countries have over fly restrictions for military aircraft. Italy is one, they really don’t like our aircraft in their air space.

Over Italy...

[Fluid]

gazza285 said:

Fluid said:

Can’t see what route it took, but a lot f countries have over fly restrictions for military aircraft. Italy is one, they really don’t like our aircraft in their air space.

Over Italy...

In that case, I would imagine it was either a compassionate case or an aeromed run.

[DavieBNL]

Fluid said:

MikeGTi said:

Getragdogleg said:

It didn't exactly go directly.

Military flights can require separate diplomatic clearances to transit certain country's airspace, it may be that this wasn't or couldn't be obtained, so they flew around that airspace.


Or, it could just have been something basic like avoiding weather.

Can’t see what route it took, but a lot f countries have over fly restrictions for military aircraft. Italy is one, they really don’t like our aircraft in their air space.

Intrigued by that claim; what's your source for that - Italy specifically?

[MikeGTi]

It avoided Bosnia, which may have something to do with Bosnia swinging back towards Russia; however on a couple of occasions on the TELIC trooper we were joined by some Austrian F-5s while transiting their airspace, which it also avoided with it's southerly route, and also Switzerland.

[JxJ Jr.]

Regardless of any particular countries' reluctance or not, that does look like the route requiring the fewest overflight permissions, so perhaps just the quickest and easiest administration-wise?