Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[darreni]

Another A400m has just been looping guernsey & now departed, but it looks like a C130 en route

[anonymous-user]

NM62 said:

Bit of a tour - Also Note Netherlands C-130 - heading to Cambridge?

C130 will be heading to Marshall Aerospace based at Cambridge Airport, Marshall undertake a lot of the global C130 fleets depth maintenance programmes.

[NM62]

pablo said:

NM62 said:

Bit of a tour - Also Note Netherlands C-130 - heading to Cambridge?

C130 will be heading to Marshall Aerospace based at Cambridge Airport, Marshall undertake a lot of the global C130 fleets depth maintenance programmes.

ecsrobin said:

NM62 said:

Second Netherland C-130 into Cambridge today

Marshals aerospace are based there who service /scrap c130’s

Hopefully for servicing

[The Brummie]

A400 at 350 feet.



Been between 200 & 350 for the past 35 minutes. Anyone know what’s going on as it is extremely low even for a training flight.

[2fast748]

We should do a poll: Who hasn't seen an A400 in the metal this year?

[Scabutz]

2fast748 said:

We should do a poll: Who hasn't seen an A400 in the metal this year?

Me. Get nothing exciting round my way.

[NM62]

2fast748 said:

We should do a poll: Who hasn't seen an A400 in the metal this year?

Me - nor the year before - in fact never. Are you an ex spotter by any chance?

[Riley Blue]

NM62 said:

2fast748 said:

We should do a poll: Who hasn't seen an A400 in the metal this year?

Me - nor the year before - in fact never. Are you an ex spotter by any chance?

I saw one at RIAT a few years ago though not since so I'm a loser too.

[Tony1963]

I’ll be off to Brize again on Monday for a couple of days. And just for a change we’ll be loading onto a USAF C-17, while surrounded by the usual RAF residents.

[NM62]

Riley Blue said:

NM62 said:

2fast748 said:

We should do a poll: Who hasn't seen an A400 in the metal this year?

Me - nor the year before - in fact never. Are you an ex spotter by any chance?

I saw one at RIAT a few years ago though not since so I'm a loser too.

Mind you I only saw my first C-17, Airbus KCC and Phenom in the past couple of weeks.

when I was a spotter way back when, there was always that little bit of competition on who had seen the best aircraft!

All purely subjective but it was like a continual game of Top Trumps. Happy Days!

[OriginalFDM]

Just flew overhead in south Bristol. Apparently brought 10 million pairs of surgical gloves from Kuala Lumpur to Bournemouth at the beginning of May

[Daveb257]

Crab air out again local to me

Really close to me

[Quhet]

OriginalFDM said:

Just flew overhead in south Bristol. Apparently brought 10 million pairs of surgical gloves from Kuala Lumpur to Bournemouth at the beginning of May

I spotted that this morning too. Seems to have gone back and forth between Cardiff and Bournemouth a few time today...

[wobert]

Daveb257 said:

Crab air out again local to me

Really close to me

Same here, I’d just left home on a bike ride heading towards Hope when it went overhead...

[RobbyJ]

Quhet said:

I spotted that this morning too. Seems to have gone back and forth between Cardiff and Bournemouth a few time today...

Not sure if it’s the same aircraft from Maleth but ones changed its reg to 9H-NHS

[alangla]

An Aurigny Dornier on a day trip from Guernsey to Aberdeen via East Midlands https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-oaur

[Hub]

Quhet said:

OriginalFDM said:

Just flew overhead in south Bristol. Apparently brought 10 million pairs of surgical gloves from Kuala Lumpur to Bournemouth at the beginning of May

I spotted that this morning too. Seems to have gone back and forth between Cardiff and Bournemouth a few time today...

It's just landed back in Bournemouth again, but I noticed it seems to often 'go around', even on nice clear days. Not sure why!! I posted about one on 10 May, p132 of this thread and now again!

[twister]

Given how quiet airports and airspace is at the moment, the go arounds could just be pilots taking advantage of the situation to practice the go around procedures at these airports - similar to how the RAF Herc, A400 and C17 crews are taking advantage to tick off every location in their "I-Spy Book of British Airports"...

[anonymous-user]

Hub said:

Quhet said:

OriginalFDM said:

Just flew overhead in south Bristol. Apparently brought 10 million pairs of surgical gloves from Kuala Lumpur to Bournemouth at the beginning of May

I spotted that this morning too. Seems to have gone back and forth between Cardiff and Bournemouth a few time today...

It's just landed back in Bournemouth again, but I noticed it seems to often 'go around', even on nice clear days. Not sure why!! I posted about one on 10 May, p132 of this thread and now again!

We saw this too in west Hampshire, FR indicated it was flying from Cardiff but no indication where it was headed. Was very low and highly visible with today being so clear.

[naturals]

twister said:

Given how quiet airports and airspace is at the moment, the go arounds could just be pilots taking advantage of the situation to practice the go around procedures at these airports - similar to how the RAF Herc, A400 and C17 crews are taking advantage to tick off every location in their "I-Spy Book of British Airports"...

My company would be pretty livid if I flew a go-around purely for practice. Even during training we never fly go-arounds, purely in the sim, and out of necessity. I've never flown the A340 but I'd guess that's the lion's share of a couple of tonnes of fuel they went through.

For sure there are more go-arounds at the minute, partly because aircraft are empty, their approach speeds are significantly lower so they take longer to slow down. Sometimes crew misjudge this. Lack of currency means people might be slipping up. ATC aren't so fussed about us flying high speed approaches so there's more rope to hang ourselves with. Finally, aircraft that have been parked up for a while are always more susceptible to little gremlins, so some of them may be for technical reasons.