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  • 09-10-2013 11:14pm
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    matt-dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭


    Anyone notice a massive amount of low flying planes?

    I've counted about 12 in the last des minutes!!


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    Alan_P
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭Alan_P


    Flightradar showed quite a few planes holding over the Irish Sea, waiting to land.

    http://www.flightradar24.com/52.83,-4.97/9

    They're clearing now :- I'm guessing there was something, hopefully trivial, going on at Dublin Airport.


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    matt-dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭matt-dublin


    was listening to the radio, they were talking about rescue 1 and a runway unavailable

    http://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=international


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    pixbyjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭pixbyjohn


    Looking at live arrivals nothing appears amiss!
    http://www.dublinairport.com/gns/flight-information/live-arrivals.aspx
    The planes are noisy and low tonight alright.


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,065 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Bill Clinton was in Dublin today - I dunno might it have been extra security?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Mech1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,099 ✭✭✭Mech1


    Check out the link in my sig.
    Gives you full ATC coverage of Dublin airport through your own speakers 24hrs a day.

    I supply that feed by the way, so any questions just ask.


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    Zoo4m8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Zoo4m8


    Had counted twenty eight on all sorts of flight paths before falling asleep round 11.30, certainly appeared to be stacking over the sea, at one stage there were three one above the other... Checking Flightrader would have meant getting out of bed..that was never going to happen !!


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    Blingy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Blingy


    Yeah I heard them too. They were very low...I thought it was kinda odd


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    Plastik
    Registered Users Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Plastik


    I was a pretty spectacular sight to see so many of them so close together. Nice that we had the clear sky for it!


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    Charlie-Bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,663 ✭✭✭Charlie-Bravo


    Yes noticed the low planes last night while out with the dog. Between planes and VDSL cabs I'm fairly occupied. :D

    -. . ...- . .-. / --. --- -. -. .- / --. .. ...- . / -.-- --- ..- / ..- .--.



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    FirstIn
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭FirstIn


    Is it not down to the direction of the wind. A northerly wind means they come in over G'stones. Landing in to the wind.


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    Cerco
    Registered Users Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭Cerco


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Bill Clinton was in Dublin today - I dunno might it have been extra security?

    Doubt he is threat to us anymore. :)

    Check here to see details of aircraft movements: Link


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    LXFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,719 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    It is to do with two factors:
    1) The main runway is closed late evenings for maintenance work currently
    2) The wind is coming from the north - hence runway 34 is in use


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