Flightradar24 Thread Part III

billie1b

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Is this unusual, or is it a blip on the info from FlightRadar?

https://www.flightradar24.com/RYR96/b756723

Edit, sorry it will be gone, haven't time to do a screenshot etc. But it was a flight going out, that seemed to be going back!

Positioning flight to CIA, had a bit of a tech snag so came back, will be heading back out soon again

Crunchienut

Altitude / speed / range seem all wrong here?

JCX BXC

Crunchienut wrote: »

Altitude / speed / range seem all wrong here?

Where?

Crunchienut

Impressive altitude and speed for a R44......... Wonder what it really is?

Shannon757

Crunchienut wrote: »

Impressive altitude and speed for a R44......... Wonder what it really is?

A link would be nice

blackbird99

Is N53LG going to loop the island?:)

pepe the prawn

blackbird99 wrote: »

Is N53LG going to loop the island?:)

That came in from the UK to Cork yesterday, fuelled up and headed off all around the south west coast, looks like he's doing the full coastal trip around the country, nice!

KoolKid

AF842 from Paris to Fort-de-France http://fr24.com/AFR842/b772a20

Diverting

frankiebaby

Kalitta 744 inbound Shannon

Crunchienut

Carnacalla wrote: »

Where?

Shannon757 wrote: »

A link would be nice

Apologies, couldn't seem to get get links or images to upload from the phone. Screenshot attached now (hopefully!!)

JCX BXC

Lots of Unknowns on flightradar today thanks to the usual issues at the start of the winter season.

Shannon Control

Male passed away on a Ryanair flight yesterday from Dublin. Aircraft returned to stand via E1.

billie1b

Shannon Control wrote: »

Male passed away on a Ryanair flight yesterday from Dublin. Aircraft returned to stand via E1.

Not exactly accurate, there was a family of 4 travelling on the flight, a member of the family got a call from another family member to say a male member of family had passed away at home suddenly, they were on the threshold of RWY28 and the crew contacted the pilots and they returned to stand so the family could get off.

snubbleste

What do the different day/night shades represent now?
It used to be day, twilight, night.
Now it is day, __, __, __, night.

JCX BXC

3 shades of twilight?

FR24 gets consistently worse with every update, I only use the app now due to the sheer awkwardness of the website.

b757

Carnacalla wrote: »

3 shades of twilight?

FR24 gets consistently worse with every update, I only use the app now due to the sheer awkwardness of the website.

Civil, nautical and astromical.

JCX BXC

b757 wrote: »

Civil, nautical and astromical.

What do these mean?

Fred Swanson

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Shannon757

I thought Twilight was the thing with the vampires and werewolves the teenage girls love?

Foggy43

Shannon757, I think you are in the Twilight Zone! :eek:

Shannon757

Foggy43 wrote: »

Shannon757, I think you are in the Twilight Zone! :eek:

I can't say you're wrong anyway...

prinzeugen

Tornado or Typhoon from Lossiemouth going supersonic over the North Sea.

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Pat Dunne

prinzeugen wrote: »

Tornado or Typhoon from Lossiemouth going supersonic over the North Sea.

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Have yet to see the magic figure of 667 kts on FR24.
Makes you wish Concord was still flying.

prinzeugen

Pat Dunne wrote: »

Have yet to see the magic figure of 667 kts on FR24.
Makes you wish Concord was still flying.

Mach 1 is about 660-670 kts at sea level.. That figure drops the higher you go.

http://www.fighter-planes.com/jetmach1.htm

Pat Dunne

prinzeugen wrote: »

Mach 1 is about 660-670 kts at sea level.. That figure drops the higher you go.

http://www.fighter-planes.com/jetmach1.htm

Grand, much appreciated. :cool:

EchoIndia

prinzeugen wrote: »

Tornado or Typhoon from Lossiemouth going supersonic over the North Sea.

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How is groundspeed of 600kt supersonic? As I type, on FR24 I can see a LH B748 at 600kt, an El Al 747 at 590kt and an Etihad A380 at 580kt.

Irish Steve

EchoIndia wrote: »

How is groundspeed of 600kt supersonic? As I type, on FR24 I can see a LH B748 at 600kt, an El Al 747 at 590kt and an Etihad A380 at 580kt.

Ground speed is not the relevant speed for supersonic flight, it's airspeed, and depending on the altitude and wind speed, an aircraft flying at M0.92 (subsonic) can well end up with a significantly higher ground speed that is in pure numbers faster than the speed of sound, especially if it's in a jet stream with the wind behind it, but it is still flying at subsonic speed.

prinzeugen

EchoIndia wrote: »

How is groundspeed of 600kt supersonic? As I type, on FR24 I can see a LH B748 at 600kt, an El Al 747 at 590kt and an Etihad A380 at 580kt.

Its was at 36,000 ft.. Which give or take a head/tail wind (airspeed) is over Mach 1. (Mach 1 at 35,000 ft is 570ish Knts)

It also depends on humidity etc.

Many pilots in the early jet age were killed because they only looked at the airspeed meter and not Mach meter.

Too low and too fast, they lost control. Too high and too slow and they stalled and could not recover.

Even a quick google of the 747 gives its cruising speed in Mach not Knts.

"The 747-400, the most common passenger version in service, has a high-subsonic cruise speed of Mach 0.85–0.855"

glenfieldman

Just seen this

EchoIndia

glenfieldman wrote: »

Just seen this

Virtually daily visitors to Chester.