Flightradar24 Thread Part III

Bussywussy

think it may be a VOR/DME approach

KwackerJack

Rescue heli over Howth....seen some lunatic out on a jetski......with the waves id say he is now being rescued

Not on FR

HeidiHeidi

KwackerJack wrote: »

Rescue heli over Howth....seen some lunatic out on a jetski......with the waves id say he is now being rescued

Not on FR

Two lifeboats out as well :mad:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-6.1/centery:53.4/zoom:13

KwackerJack

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Two lifeboats out as well :mad:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-6.1/centery:53.4/zoom:13

Ridiculous risking his own life never mind risking the lives of the Rescue Crew.....yes thats what they are there for but that idiot should have known better

HeidiHeidi

KwackerJack wrote: »

Ridiculous risking his own life never mind risking the lives of the Rescue Crew.....yes thats what they are there for but that idiot should have known better

Agreed

http://afloat.ie/safety/lifeboats/item/34094-howth-rnli-rescues-man-from-sea-after-jet-ski-gets-into-difficulty

(apologies if this is O/T for the thread, but the heli was involved.......:o)

PukkaStukka

Thompson TOM1204 Newcastle - Funchal showing as diverting to Dublin. It performed its U-Turn just off the south coast

Oscar Bravo

United 757 out of Belfast approaching the north of Sligo at 10,000ft

FrancieBrady

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

United 757 out of Belfast approaching the north of Sligo at 10,000ft

Is that a blip? Why so low?

Irish Steve

guessing in the absence of any other information, they've got a pressurisation fault, and are trying to clear it, with the option to divert to Shannon if they can't clear it.

They've just turned South as I was typing the original message, so looking even more like a diversion to Shannon, and possibly staying off shore to avoid high ground and possible turbulence.

lovelyhurler

Looks like its on its way into SNN.

Irish Steve

Not sure what's going on with the UA76, it's gone past the Shannon approach, but maintaining 10,000, not showing any unusual squawk, but definitely not heading towards Newark, so doesn't make sense at the moment, unless it is a FR24 error, and the aircraft is being test flown after maintenance repair in Belfast.

billie1b

Irish Steve wrote: »

Not sure what's going on with the UA76, it's gone past the Shannon approach, but maintaining 10,000, not showing any unusual squawk, but definitely not heading towards Newark, so doesn't make sense at the moment, unless it is a FR24 error, and the aircraft is being test flown after maintenance repair in Belfast.

Possible Nose Gear issue, burning off excess fuel before landing

davo2001

billie1b wrote: »

Possible Nose Gear issue, burning off excess fuel before landing

Is this speculation about the nose gear? Anything from ATC?

lovelyhurler

Listening to ATC he's going to be circling for another hour, and confirms that he has an issue with the nose gear.
Wants to do a low approach for inspection.
Due into SNN at 13:40 local.

Irish Steve

davo2001 wrote: »

Is this speculation about the nose gear? Anything from ATC?

Would be happy with that source, and it makes sense, burn off excess weight/fuel before landing. Might take a while, they'd have had pretty much full tanks when they launched from BFS, so could be there off the Clare coast for a while yet.

billie1b

davo2001 wrote: »

Is this speculation about the nose gear? Anything from ATC?

Not speculation, confirmed on ATC a few minutes ago, they were considering DUB but chose SNN to burn off fuel along the west coast.

kmart6

13:00 low approach.

davo2001

kmart6 wrote: »

13:00 low approach.

It's 13:08 now, do you mean 14:00?

Foggy43

Irish Steve wrote: »

Would be happy with that source, and it makes sense, burn off excess weight/fuel before landing. Might take a while, they'd have had pretty much full tanks when they launched from BFS, so could be there off the Clare coast for a while yet.

At about 12:45 UA76 quoted another hour and fifteen minutes before a 500 foot flyover for a nose gear visual inspection from the tower.

kmart6

davo2001 wrote: »

It's 13:08 now, do you mean 14:00?

99% sure I heard them say 13:00. Would they be operating off UTC?

Foggy43

1300 GMT which is 1400 local time.

Irish Steve

billie1b wrote: »

Not speculation, confirmed on ATC a few minutes ago, they were considering DUB but chose SNN to burn off fuel along the west coast.

Makes a lot of sense, there's 757 maintenance in Shannon, a long runway, and in all honesty, a lot less disruption to other traffic while they perform the low approach and then landing, while Dublin could and would have taken it if necessary, Shannon is as well equipped in all aspects, so much less disruption to traffic flows.

Trust all goes well for them, can't be pleasant for anyone on board, but burning off excess fuel also makes sense, just in case the suspect problem turns into a real problem.

maximum12

davo2001 wrote: »

It's 13:08 now, do you mean 14:00?

Aviation uses GMT aka "Zulu" as it would be impractical and unsafe to have to clarify time zones.

Storm 10

Saw him pass west of Galway City clearly visible in the sun he looked to be pretty low

AGC

Turning back up the coast again

maximum12

AGC wrote: »

Turning back up the coast again

At least the passengers get some decent sight seeing.

AGC

maximum12 wrote: »

At least the passengers get some decent sight seeing.

They have them inland at the minute so green fields all round!

lovelyhurler

they're getting the ground crews ready atm.

Jack1985

Engineers gathering on Taxiway Alpha I'm assuming N/WS fault? towed off the runway likely if it is locked down...

AGC

Going to start the descent now for fly past