Flightradar24 Thread Part III

JCX BXC

marno21 wrote: »

Instead get to see the metropolis of Sixmilebridge landing on 24 at SNN

Exactly

KoolKid

Flew out of DUB last Sunday Monday early.Flights were taking off from 34 & 28 alternatively. Is that normal operations?

marno21

KoolKid wrote: »

Flew out of DUB last Sunday Monday early.Flights were taking off from 34 & 28 alternatively. Is that normal operations?

You'd often see dual takeoffs early in the morning on 28/34 when there's a good few to take off. Usually Stobarts/small jets on 34 from what I've seen

masit

Irish coast guard helicopter over South Wales now on way back from Heathrow. Why would it going to Heathrow? Patient transfer to U.K hospital?

Locker10a

masit wrote: »

Irish coast guard helicopter over South Wales now on way back from Heathrow. Why would it going to Heathrow? Patient transfer to U.K hospital?

Yes, or organ transplant

billie1b

masit wrote: »

Irish coast guard helicopter over South Wales now on way back from Heathrow. Why would it going to Heathrow? Patient transfer to U.K hospital?

Emergency call to take a patient to the UK for life saving surgery.

GBX

masit wrote: »

Irish coast guard helicopter over South Wales now on way back from Heathrow. Why would it going to Heathrow? Patient transfer to U.K hospital?

https://www.facebook.com/SAR115/?fref=ts

"Search & Rescue does not sleep or stop. RESCUE117 carried out an urgent middle of the night transfer to the UK, departing Waterford Airport & landing at Dublin Airport to collect patient & then onto Londons Heathrow & then safely back home to Waterford Airport."

fricatus

GBX wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/SAR115/?fref=ts

"Search & Rescue does not sleep or stop. RESCUE117 carried out an urgent middle of the night transfer to the UK, departing Waterford Airport & landing at Dublin Airport to collect patient & then onto Londons Heathrow & then safely back home to Waterford Airport."

I have to say, that is savage... we really all should have so much admiration for the work they do.

fricatus

BTW, why fly to Heathrow and not directly to somewhere nearer the hospital, even like an RAF base? I'm sure there are sound reasons, but what are they? Refuelling facilities maybe? Or is the hospital right by LHR?

iancm25

fricatus wrote: »

BTW, why fly to Heathrow and not directly to somewhere nearer the hospital, even like an RAF base? I'm sure there are sound reasons, but what are they? Refuelling facilities maybe? Or is the hospital right by LHR?

Harefield hospital (lung & heart transplant unit) is only about 30 mins drive from LHR. Although they do have a helipad on site so not sure why they didn't just land there.

Trebor176

masit wrote: »

Irish coast guard helicopter over South Wales now on way back from Heathrow. Why would it going to Heathrow? Patient transfer to U.K hospital?

So, I wasn't hearing things in Clondalkin before dawn. I was woken by what sounded like an S-92, but I didn't know if I was imagining things or not.

faoiarvok

iancm25 wrote: »

Harefield hospital (lung & heart transplant unit) is only about 30 mins drive from LHR. Although they do have a helipad on site so not sure why they didn't just land there.

Few possible reasons:

Many hospital helipads are only certified for daylight use.

Also likely that the helipad couldn't handle an S92, most UK air ambulance helicopters are EC135 or similar, with a few Dauphins around also.

Some helipads may require specific training for crews before they can be used.

masit

Thats a great service provided, hopefully all went well for the patient. Maybe there could be noise restriction around the hospital for this type of helicopter at that time of night?

faoiarvok

Antonov An124 just landed in Shannon

Delaneykidd

Any idea what time it departs?

BZ

faoiarvok wrote: »

Antonov An124 just landed in Shannon

Second due in tomorrow morning.

Cloudio9

faoiarvok wrote: »

Few possible reasons:

Many hospital helipads are only certified for daylight use.

Also likely that the helipad couldn't handle an S92, most UK air ambulance helicopters are EC135 or similar, with a few Dauphins around also.

Some helipads may require specific training for crews before they can be used.

Also hospital helipads wouldn't have fuel and presumably the helicopter needed fuel before heading home.

smurfjed

2 AN124's in SNN, thats impressive. How many of those things are flying?

davo2001

AF474 sqwaking 7700
https://www.flightradar24.com/AFR474/cfbcd29

Locker10a

Painfully slow movement of traffic at Dublin now. Pretty much every flight taking off/landing late. It's very busy and the easterly runway doesn't seem to help, hope this isn't a taste of the summer to come

Chris_5339762

I count 15 in the takeoff queue and about 5 holding waiting to land. Ick.

marno21

Anyone know who owns M-IRTH inbound KIR?

marno21

2 Omni's inbound SNN tonight, B762 N378AX (CMB) and B772 N846AX (OAE).

Oscar Bravo

SDM5879, B747, EI-XLG currently passing over the north of Ireland en route Punta Cana.

marno21

CityJet RJ85 just landed on Griffith Avenue before taking up stand in DCU.

faoiarvok

marno21 wrote: »

CityJet RJ85 just landed on Griffith Avenue before taking up stand in DCU

City jets are constantly wrong on FR24, anybody know why?

marno21

JP McManus AW139 EI-LIM about to land at Martinstown Stud on return from Aintree there on FR24.

St. Leibowitz

faoiarvok wrote: »

City jets are constantly wrong on FR24, anybody know why?

From the FR24 FAQ, https://www.flightradar24.com/faq

Why did it look like the aircraft landed outside the runway? Has it crashed?
An aircraft’s ADS-B transponder is transmitting the position from the on board flight computer, which in most modern aircraft comes from GPS data and is very accurate. On some older aircraft (for example some older A300, B737, B757, B767 and RJ100) the position is calibrated on ground before take off and after that the current position is calculated based on speed and direction of the aircraft. When flying for some time, in wind or in circles, the calculation becomes increasingly worse, which at landing can give position calculations that are up to 10 km incorrect.

marno21

Visibility down to 900m at DUB. First two transats, EI104 and EI136 currently inbound 28.

smurfjed

Are these aircraft CAT I/II or III?