Flight tracker

[planetgeli]

Great isn't it? Should have it's own thread.

So yesterday I saw a Mustang warplane going from Brize Norton to Luton? Wtf? Looked up the call sign and saw it was involved in an accident 2 years ago. Didn't crash this time.

Then I got a blue plane icon. Yeah! Tracked by satellite apparently.

Anyway, now we have a Doha to Luxembourg flight flying around and around London. Why?

Feel free to comment or put your own flight tracker stories. Or just point and call me a weirdo. Lockdown may be getting to me.

Ooh, forgot the point about the Mustang. They gave it a Concorde icon.

 

[dessiato]

I use flight trackers when I'm waiting to pick up Mrs D from the airport. It's useful to know that the flight has left and when it is close to landing.

 

[Chilli.s]

Yeah, it's great. And for when you go to the beach again there's:

MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic

MarineTraffic Live Ships Map. Discover information and vessel positions for vessels around the world. Search the MarineTraffic ships database of more than 550000 active and decommissioned vessels. Search for popular ships globally. Find locations of ports and ships using the near Real Time ships...

www.marinetraffic.com

 

[WouldBe]

Anyway, now we have a Doha to Luxembourg flight flying around and around London. Why?

Pilots are lost.

 

[rekil]

There's a hurricane flying about at the moment, on the hunt for any lockdown defying jerries probably.

Spoiler

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Similarly, if you're next to a Czech railway line, there's this:

GRAPP - Grafická prezentace polohy

provoz.szdc.cz

And the same for the Netherlands with fancier graphics:

Actuele treinposities

Live treinposities van NS, Syntus, Arriva, Keolis - Syntus, Blauwnet bekijken. Stel e-mail alerts in voor je favoriete treinstellen.

treinposities.nl

 

[skyscraper101]

FlightRadar24 app pro version with the AR mode is the bollocks.

I point it up at planes and it gives me all the essential info (airline, departure/arrival airport, take off/landing times)

 

[Sprocket.]

An Air Canada 787-9 Dreamliner on route from Toronto to Amsterdam just gone overhead.

 

[planetgeli]

There were lots of those Belugas flying around out of Chester airport yesterday. Chester has an airport. Who knew?

 

[steveseagull]

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There were lots of those Belugas flying around out of Chester airport yesterday. Chester has an airport. Who knew?

It is the Airbus factory in Broughton which is actually in Wales

 

[skyscraper101]

Taken earlier...

 

[planetgeli]

Why does a royal flight need such a huge plane? Do they take out 90% of the seats or something?

Also never knew Doncaster had an airport. Or any royalty.

Edit. Oh, it's a Russian airline. How confusing.

Royal Flight (airline) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[cybershot]

Walked around Birmingham airport perimeter today. Nothing took off or landed. Was hoping to get a glimpse of a C17 that’s been doing the rounds occasionally but alas nadda

 

[Sprocket.]

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Also never knew Doncaster had an airport.

It certainly does, we live on the flightpath. It has one of the longest runways in Europe, nearly 3km. The last few months have been very quiet.
A lot of freight in and out, picking up weekly now though. As mentioned on another thread when the huge 6 engined Antonov is coming in and taking off it shakes the whole house.

Edited for mistakes.

 

[petee]

Similarly, if you're next to a Czech railway line, there's this:

GRAPP - Grafická prezentace polohy

provoz.szdc.cz

And the same for the Netherlands with fancier graphics:

Actuele treinposities

Live treinposities van NS, Syntus, Arriva, Keolis - Syntus, Blauwnet bekijken. Stel e-mail alerts in voor je favoriete treinstellen.

treinposities.nl

likewise for the LIRR, you can spot where along the tracks is the train you're waiting for.

MTA TrainTime

View upcoming departures, see exactly where trains are, and how full they are.

www.mylirr.org

 

[cybershot]

It certainly does, we live on the flightpath. It has one of the longest runways in Europe, nearly 3km. The last few months have been very quiet.
A lot of freight in and out, picking up weekly now though. As mentioned on another thread when the huge 6 engined Antonov is coming in and taking off it shakes the whole house.

Edited for mistakes.

Same problem for me since the A380 started landing at Birmingham. Pretty sure it's what is causing all the plaster to crack on wall next to exterior brick, god knows what else it's causing that I can't see.

 

[tim]

I get all the excitement I need from this

Live London bus map

 

[WouldBe]

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Why does a royal flight need such a huge plane? Do they take out 90% of the seats or something?

Also never knew Doncaster had an airport. Or any royalty.

Edit. Oh, it's a Russian airline. How confusing.

Royal Flight (airline) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Sheffield / Doncaster airport. Aka Robin hood airport. Former RAF Finningly. Been to several airshows there in the past.

 

[Aladdin]

Interesting flight just taken off from Shannon.



Destination unknown.
Origin unknown.
No info of anything on this.

 

[Aladdin]

Massive US Army Chinook just passee over the houses...quite low and very loud.
Checked on flight tracker and it came from Dublin to Shannon.
Assuming its something to do with Biden arriving tomorrow

 

[pbsmooth]

Chinook flying over South London. Great view from the garden.

 

[dessiato]

I used it to track the aircraft for the Armed Forces Weekend so we knew which was arriving and exactly when. Then, because we were not at the show, we telephoned my niece who relayed the info to the rest of the family so they could watch.