Flightradar24 Thread

Red Nissan

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I think ORK is out of MLAT coverage.

Missed this myself, and there is no MLAT here.

Red Nissan

Shamrock231 wrote: »

According to this post over on PPRuNe the aircraft was covered in a layer of sea salt out of the blue while flying...

Darn it, I heard her saying that, a sort of smoke or fog just covered the windscreen.

I was not monitoring EICK [separately] and I could not see her ~ {no MLAT}, I had just checked in before going to bed, I could hear my scanner monitoring the emergency services spring into life as dove under the covers, but I went to sleep. Dems the breaks.

Growler!!!

Any of the plane enthusiasts on here mentioned in this report?

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/plane-manchester-airport-cork-makes-6465670

Red Nissan

or here: http://www.eveningecho.ie/2014/01/03/flight-fright/

Blue Punto

Crimsonforce wrote: »

I was on UA23 this morning from Newark

Scariest flight I've ever been on and this is coming from someone who flies weekly...
Plane was stuck on runway in Newark for 2 hours whilst they figured out to whether to take off or return, 300 flights cancelled from Newark except transatlantic. The plane was de iced twice. Very very bumpy flight , teas and waters going everywhere... Was ok once out over Halifax and through the eastern US storm.

The flight into dublin was very scary, pilot was circling for 50mins or so before he tried to land, he got about 400 foot before he pulled up, then went straight sideways into the gusts. To say the plane got blown around is an understatement, there was screams and more screams! Pilot climbed and went around again and then said over the intercom that the plane , a 757 was too small to land in these conditions and we were heading for Shannon.
He then said Shannon was now windy so they were opening up a longer runway in order to see can they land. No mention of fuel emergency but I thought having circled for an hour and been on the runway for two, they must have been short on fuel.. Was out of Irish Sea getting knocked around .
2nd time was scary too but landed straight into the gusts..
I was really shaken along with all the passengers

UA23 Missed Approach 16 by niallsaviation, on Flickr

UA23 Second try 28 by niallsaviation, on Flickr

UA23 by niallsaviation, on Flickr


The take off an hour later was just as interesting

ProfessorPlum

billie1b wrote: »

Depends on where its cheapest, if it was going to MAN this morning and the fuel price is higher here, they will usually just take a standard amount here and then fill up as close to the limits as they can in MAN to bring home the extra

Billie, you have some unusual ideas regarding fuel management. I would imagine tankering for cost is somewhere around the bottom of the list of factors when considering extra fuel for most pilots.

billie1b

ProfessorPlum wrote: »

Billie, you have some unusual ideas regarding fuel management. I would imagine tankering for cost is somewhere around the bottom of the list of factors when considering extra fuel for most pilots.

No its usually on their flightplan if they have to tanker or not, crazy to think but its true, not all airlines do it but some do

Blue Punto

irlrobins wrote: »

AFR1578 declaring PAN with flaps

AF1578 by niallsaviation, on Flickr

AF1578 by niallsaviation, on Flickr

IamtheWalrus

I'm flying from Dublin to London on Sunday at 7pm. Will my flight go and if so, will the flight be petrifying?

ProfessorPlum

billie1b wrote: »

No its usually on their flightplan if they have to tanker or not, crazy to think but its true, not all airlines do it but some do

Just because a flight planner may put tankering of fuel on their flight plan, it's still not the primary concern regarding a decision to take extra fuel. And most airlines won't tell their pilots that they 'have to' tanker fuel. Most airlines leave final fuel decisions up to their pilots. That's not to say pilots won't tanker if operationally it's possible and there's a saving.

billie1b

ProfessorPlum wrote: »

Just because a flight planner may put tankering of fuel on their flight plan, it's still not the primary concern regarding a decision to take extra fuel. And most airlines won't tell their pilots that they 'have to' tanker fuel. Most airlines leave final fuel decisions up to their pilots. That's not to say pilots won't tanker if operationally it's possible and there's a saving.

Yes you are correct, they have to tanker at all times when possible, I have worked it out thousands of times for tanker fuel, did a LPL flight one morning with 12000kgs on it as it was a tanker, as with the RE flight this morning, I never said they had or had to tanker but the possibility that he/she did tanker in MAN is very high and thats why they could hold for so long (over an hour I believe) and make 2 approaches and a diversion to Belfast. Was just my opinion on the situation

DieselPowered

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

I'm flying from Dublin to London on Sunday at 7pm. Will my flight go and if so, will the flight be petrifying?

IamtheWalrus - you have not mentioned what airline you are flying and this is not really something that can be answered right now on this forum. Best thing to do it monitor your airlines website for updates, there is no reason right now (weather) that would stop the flight from departing.

DieselPowered

Can you help fill in the blanks where the FR24 main Irish ADS-B receivers are located: I will try to get a Mod to move this to the first page when its nearly complete.

ADS-B RECEIVER:

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F-EIWF1 - Top Blackstairs Mountains (South East)
F-EINN1 -
F-EIDW1
N-EIDW2
T-EIKN2 -
T-EIKN3
F-EGNS1
F-EGNS2
N-EGCC1 Manchester.
F-EGAA1
T-EGNR12
N-EGCC1
F-EGPF1

MLAT
T-MLAT - Cumulative Network

L1011

T-MLAT is the cumulative network of all the MLAT receivers as far as I know.

Ted_YNWA

Few go-arounds now.


boyos are back with the lasers again, garda helicopter doing the rounds for them

Aphex

REA7NC Diverting to Belfast..

ShanE90

He's Heading to Aldergrove now although they're still landing on 28 at EIDW

Aphex

ShanE90 wrote: »

He's Heading to Aldergrove now although they're still landing on 28 at EIDW

whats_my_name

Aphex wrote: »

Aldergrove is Belfast International!

Edit: Meant to say is Aldergrove Belfast International?? Sitting outside airport here with very limited coverage, waiting on my friends sister coming from Italy! Friend went inside to get sister over an hour ago & still hasn't appeared & can't get her on her phone!

vicwatson

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Few go-arounds now.


boyos are back with the lasers again, garda helicopter doing the rounds for them

bunch of idiots

Aphex

whats_my_name wrote: »

Aldergrove is Belfast International!

I know that, but I didn't get what the above poster meant by "although they're still landing on 28 at EIDW".

whats_my_name

Aphex wrote: »

I know that, but I didn't get what the above poster meant by "although they're still landing on 28 at EIDW".

Read my edit!

sparrowcar

http://www.flightradar24.com/NAX4RL

Norwegian medical diversion...heavy landing so local fire standby

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Seems to be a lot of cricling around - is this normal, or is it just Dublin? Weatehr seems ok...

fr336

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Seems to be a lot of cricling around - is this normal, or is it just Dublin? Weatehr seems ok...

Maybe the medical emergency mentioned above.

sparrowcar

Landed ok

fr336

Are there usually this many Norwegians heading through Ireland? Maybe just noticing them more today..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

fr336 wrote: »

Maybe the medical emergency mentioned above.

I thought that, but it seems to be every time I look in. And would the emergency have effected three or four planes?

Peregrine

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Seems to be a lot of cricling around - is this normal, or is it just Dublin? Weatehr seems ok...

The Norwegian medical emergency seems to have caused some circling, but they've all landed now.

fr336

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I thought that, but it seems to be every time I look in. And would the emergency have effected three or four planes?

If they needed to get it in ahead of them all, yes. But then possibly something else too