Flightradar24 Thread Part III

CoisFharraige · 17-02-2018 7:17pm

space2ground1 wrote: »

Boeing 777. It’s the second Air India I’ve noticed low this week. Just wondering why one airline would travel so low compared to others in the same area.

Purely coincidental I'd imagine. They'd probably be quite heavy compared to a speedbird going LHR-JFK or similar - maybe that has something to do with it as crossing the FIR they'll be relatively heavy if they're going eastbound.

tom_k · 17-02-2018 8:03pm

Lockheed WP-3D Orion (NOAA42 )just overflew South Mayo at 8000 ft. Heading south. Unusual I thought...

faoiarvok · 17-02-2018 8:08pm

tom_k wrote: »

Lockheed WP-3D Orion (NOAA42 )just overflew South Mayo at 8000 ft. Heading south. Unusual I thought...

Based in Shannon for a month, flying weather research flights over the Atlantic.

https://www.omao.noaa.gov/learn/aircraft-operations/about/hurricane-hunters

Chris_5339762 · 18-02-2018 10:01am

FR117 from Gatwick to Dublin with Ryanair makes its fastest crossing in the past year at 48 minutes. Pilot said flight time would be just over an hour but there you go. Pretty much a direct routing. The only reason I am posting it is because I was on that flight and I am a nerd. It felt ridiculously quick for a LGW - DUB sector but I wasn't complaining!

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/fr117#10761ce8

Edit: FR119 did a 46 minute later that night, also the fastest in a year according to my FlightRadar Gold subsciption. Must be some seriously favourable wind conditions or ATC routing to knock 15-20 minutes off the average for such a short sector.

Cloudio9 · 18-02-2018 11:43am

Looks like it’s because they can take the direct route across wales which they normally have to avoid due to military activity.

And going in the Dublin direction there’s usually no holding

roadmaster · 18-02-2018 7:42pm

Theres a Norwegian aircraft heading out of shannon for dublin would it off being in for maintenance

JCX BXC · 18-02-2018 7:44pm

roadmaster wrote: »

Theres a Norwegian aircraft heading out of shannon for dublin would it off being in for maintenance

Went tech in Shannon, I assume it's just positioning for a flight tomorrow.

Chris_5339762 · 18-02-2018 9:05pm

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Looks like it’s because they can take the direct route across wales which they normally have to avoid due to military activity.

And going in the Dublin direction there’s usually no holding

Nah this is different, there are a few from last week that took exactly the same routing as I did but took ten minutes longer with no holding.

Interesting, in any case.

boccy23 · 21-02-2018 12:57pm

https://www.flightradar24.com/DLH400/107f1464

Seems to be turning for home.

weisses · 21-02-2018 1:07pm

boccy23 wrote: »

https://www.flightradar24.com/DLH400/107f1464

Seems to be turning for home.

yeah .. spotted the same

boccy23 · 21-02-2018 1:44pm

https://twitter.com/lemdleib/status/966280047714816000

HTCOne · 21-02-2018 9:00pm

space2ground1 wrote: »

Boeing 777. It’s the second Air India I’ve noticed low this week. Just wondering why one airline would travel so low compared to others in the same area.

They’re full to the gills with fuel on departure, only about a third of the way through the flight when in Irish airspace

smurfjed · 21-02-2018 9:40pm

We are supposed to be blocked on plane trackers, departing LTN tomorrow around 18:00. If anyone manages to track us, would you please let me know ðŸ˜€

Snowc · 22-02-2018 5:13pm

smurfjed wrote: »

We are supposed to be blocked on plane trackers, departing LTN tomorrow around 18:00. If anyone manages to track us, would you please let me know &#55357;&#56832;

How could we track you if the flight is blocked on flight tracking websites?

Fred Swanson · 22-02-2018 5:20pm

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space2ground1 · 22-02-2018 5:50pm

HTCOne wrote: »

They’re full to the gills with fuel on departure, only about a third of the way through the flight when in Irish airspace

Interesting! Why would that cause a lower altitude to be set?

Fred Swanson · 22-02-2018 5:55pm

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roadmaster · 22-02-2018 7:28pm

smurfjed wrote: »

We are supposed to be blocked on plane trackers, departing LTN tomorrow around 18:00. If anyone manages to track us, would you please let me know &#55357;&#56832;

Since aircraft have the option of not being shown on FR24 how come some are shown as blocked? If they don't want to be known would they not just remove them selfs completely ?

fricatus · 22-02-2018 10:02pm

space2ground1 wrote: »

Interesting! Why would that cause a lower altitude to be set?

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I found this article to be a good explanation of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_climb

marno21 · 24-02-2018 12:59am

Irish Government Jet 258 on descent into Naples: https://www.flightradar24.com/LJ45/1085d62e

Departed Baldonnell after dropping Leo home from Brussels.

AGC · 24-02-2018 1:03am

Fuel stop on way to pick up President from Greece?

marno21 · 24-02-2018 2:12am

AGC wrote: »

Fuel stop on way to pick up President from Greece?

258 airbone again ex Naples heading south east, looks like you could be right.

Edit: now on descent over southern Greece - landed at Athens

smurfjed · 24-02-2018 4:32am

Since aircraft have the option of not being shown on FR24 how come some are shown as blocked? If they don't want to be known would they not just remove them selfs completely ?

FR24 are quite responsive when asked to block an aircraft, they remove the data associated with the aircraft, however the aircraft will still be shown. I was wondering how easy it was for people to link the blocked aircraft to its data.

roadmaster · 24-02-2018 10:09am

smurfjed wrote: »

FR24 are quite responsive when asked to block an aircraft, they remove the data associated with the aircraft, however the aircraft will still be shown. I was wondering how easy it was for people to link the blocked aircraft to its data.

That's where I am probably getting confused I asked here before about aircraft you could see in the sky but not on FR24. I think one of the replys was they where some military aircraft but mostly private jets that have asked FR24 remove them completely . So I was just wondering why go with blocked if you can be gone completely

Locker10a · 24-02-2018 1:48pm

marno21 wrote: »

AGC wrote: »

Fuel stop on way to pick up President from Greece?

258 airbone again ex Naples heading south east, looks like you could be right.

Edit: now on descent over southern Greece - landed at Athens

Why the stop in NAP? Can the Learjet not do Dublin- Athens non stop ?

AGC · 24-02-2018 2:47pm

Locker10a wrote: »

Why the stop in NAP? Can the Learjet not do Dublin- Athens non stop ?

Don’t think so

Fred Swanson · 24-02-2018 6:38pm

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smurfjed · 24-02-2018 7:03pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learjet_45 (Range: 1,968 mi (1,710 nmi, 3,167 km) (4 passengers))

Jeppesen shows EIME LGAV as 1558 nms great circle, so depending on the winds, payload and alternates, it might be outside the range.

marno21 · 24-02-2018 7:29pm

258 is just after taking off from Naples after a stopover on its way home from Athens.

Perhaps some other reason for stopping there

AGC · 24-02-2018 10:06pm

marno21 wrote: »

258 is just after taking off from Naples after a stopover on its way home from Athens.

Perhaps some other reason for stopping there

There wouldn’t.

Would be a enough paperwork and work for the Italian authorities as is having a head of state stopover even for a drop of juice.

Flightradar24 Thread Part III

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