Flightradar24 Thread

b757

Blocked Aircraft currently over Cork is....

Registration N74VW
Latitude 51°58.192N
Longitude 8°45.421W
Alt 43000' (-192 fpm)
Flight no EJM74
Heading 93°
Speed 518kts
ICAO id A9F221
Squawk 2001
Type GLF5

arubex

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

not sure tbh, that callsign is usually used for Omni air carrying us troops.

CAMBER is used by any approved US airline carrying out DoD charters, not just Omni. Used to use REACH but that is now reserved for purely military movements.

Some other airlines which frequently use CAMBER over Ireland include Delta, National and North American. World used to be the primary one in our skies until its demise, Omni and Delta picked-up most of the business.

homerjay2005

arubex wrote: »

CAMBER is used by any approved US airline carrying out DoD charters, not just Omni. Used to use REACH but that is now reserved for purely military movements.

Some other airlines which frequently use CAMBER over Ireland include Delta, National and North American. World used to be the primary one in our skies until its demise, Omni and Delta picked-up most of the business.

would it not make more sense security wise to use a standard code as opposed to one that makes it obvious who is on board?

V_Moth

Boeing 727 heading west out of London:

http://www.flightradar24.com/B721/38e333d

King 2 over the North Sea which has since disappeared off FR:

homerjay2005

that Antonov A-12 will pass by Dublin in about 10-15 minutes. its a serious outfit.

Growler!!!

Nice....

b757

Third time now seeing this beast go over. Never gets old.

Luckily it was "CAVOK" this time and in daylight... Notice what I done there? :P

Will upload a pic of it later if you want.

DieselPowered

From FR24-

Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world's biggest aircraft, is now en route to East Midlands Airport. ETA is 19:45 local time (18:45 UTC). Flight route will be Riga - Rönne - Hamburg - Groningen - Amsterdam - Southend - Luton - East Midlands.

Follow the An-225 live on http://www.flightradar24.com/ADB5983/38e9e64

Read about the An-225 on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

An-225 landing in Riga earlier today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YafjfAcoxGk

fr336

It's actually stopping in Luton? How are these airports handling the world's biggest aircraft?! Is it simply due to low load? Should see it out my window if it takes off from LTN.

ETA: Damn I guess you just mean the actual route.

cameramonkey

homerjay2005 wrote: »

that Antonov A-12 will pass by Dublin in about 10-15 minutes. its a serious outfit.

Saw it going over Kilbride camp, what was its route?

bkehoe

cameramonkey wrote: »

Saw it going over Kilbride camp, what was its route?

Well I watched it take off in Prestwick anyway, don't know its destination!

Some noise from it, and smoky engines too!

Oscar Bravo

Challenger C-FBCR just departed Shannon, westbound.

Peregrine

Would anyone know what aircraft took off from DUB three mins ago? It wasn't on FR24, I heard it but I couldn't see it.

Oscar? b757?

Oscar Bravo

N618WF inbound Shannon at this time. Bombardier Global 6000.

Oscar Bravo

Nimrod 7, was it a prop?

Peregrine

It didn't sound like a prop. It sounded like a jet and loud, that's why I went to the window to check. I missed it, went on FR and nothing.

Maybe I'm just hearing things..

Oscar Bravo

Boeing 767 OY-SRJ took off from DUB a short time ago. he would be fairly loud if heavy.

Peregrine

Thanks, Oscar! It was probably him.

Oscar Bravo

N881WT, another Bombardier, just getting airborne from Shannon now. westbound.

fr336

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

It didn't sound like a prop. It sounded like a jet and loud, that's why I went to the window to check. I missed it, went on FR and nothing.

Maybe I'm just hearing things..

Way to be sure would be to load up the Tower archive on liveatc!

b757

bkehoe wrote: »

Well I watched it take off in Prestwick anyway, don't know its destination!

Some noise from it, and smoky engines too!

Prestwick - Senegal.

cameramonkey

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

It didn't sound like a prop. It sounded like a jet and loud, that's why I went to the window to check. I missed it, went on FR and nothing.

Maybe I'm just hearing things..

Not the same aircraft I know but another noisy lumbering Russian cargo aircraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7q3j69-SHM

V_Moth

Rotorsport MT03 Autogyro (G-CTCL) near Kings Lynn:

http://www.flightradar24.com/GCTCL/39018a2

Edit: And the An-225 is back:

http://www.flightradar24.com/ADB5983/3901e7a

lolie

Just looking at the app a few mins ago and thought this a bit strange.
Why would they take this route and not just head West after takeoff?

V_Moth

lolie wrote: »

Just looking at the app a few mins ago and thought this a bit strange.
Why would they take this route and not just head West after takeoff?

Could be an error on FR?

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Tiger2 over the North Sea:

http://www.flightradar24.com/TIGER2/3902ec3

V_Moth

Beech 58 Baron (PH-BYA) used by the KLM Flight School:

http://www.flightradar24.com/PHBYA/39040b4

Growler!!!

lolie wrote: »

Just looking at the app a few mins ago and thought this a bit strange.
Why would they take this route and not just head West after takeoff?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/surface-pressure/#?tab=surfacePressureColour&fcTime=1402574400

There may be a number of factors. All aircraft fly what is called a Great Circle route which is a lot shorter that what looks like a direct route on a flat map. A Great Circle route takes account of the earth being a sphere.

Another factor is there is due to be some poor weather south of Iceland as can be seen in the link above. The variance of NATS tracks is a subject in itself.

Nothing unusual though.

owenc

lolie wrote: »

Just looking at the app a few mins ago and thought this a bit strange.
Why would they take this route and not just head West after takeoff?

Did that a few days ago aswell

lolie

Growler!!! wrote: »

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/surface-pressure/#?tab=surfacePressureColour&fcTime=1402574400

There may be a number of factors. All aircraft fly what is called a Great Circle route which is a lot shorter that what looks like a direct route on a flat map. A Great Circle route takes account of the earth being a sphere.

Another factor is there is due to be some poor weather south of Iceland as can be seen in the link above. The variance of NATS tracks is a subject in itself.

Nothing unusual though.

Must be that so, it just looked a bit odd with all other US bound planes heading West. Cheers

Jack1985

lolie wrote: »

Just looking at the app a few mins ago and thought this a bit strange.
Why would they take this route and not just head West after takeoff?

Here's todays NAT tracks for example:



A SUNOT 58/20 59/30 59/40 57/50 HOIST
EAST LVLS NIL
WEST LVLS 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390
EUR RTS WEST NIL
NAR NIL-

B PIKIL 57/20 58/30 57/40 55/50 LOMSI
EAST LVLS NIL
WEST LVLS 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390
EUR RTS WEST NIL
NAR NIL-

C RESNO 56/20 57/30 56/40 54/50 NEEKO
EAST LVLS NIL
WEST LVLS 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390
EUR RTS WEST NIL
NAR NIL-

END OF PART ONE OF TWO PARTS)


(NAT-2/2 TRACKS FLS 310/390 INCLUSIVE
JUN 13/1130Z TO JUN 13/1900Z
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS-

D DOGAL 55/20 56/30 55/40 53/50 RIKAL
EAST LVLS NIL
WEST LVLS 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390
EUR RTS WEST NIL
NAR NIL-

E MALOT 54/20 55/30 54/40 52/50 TUDEP
EAST LVLS NIL
WEST LVLS 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390
EUR RTS WEST NIL
NAR NIL-

-

So AWE777 could have been taking the A track, or simply the ETOPs category for the aircraft could have been downgraded so in turn that means the aircraft needs to be closer to diversion airports - Flying that track near Iceland and South of Greenland would comply with those requirements depending on the minutes required it needs to be in reach of a diversion airport.