Flight Radar 24 pt 2

[NoGravyForYou]

I don't know if anyone else has made one!
BA2665 has missed LGW and is circling again

They might be going out empty to bring folk out there home

Yes, I think you are right that it’s empty planes going out- one I looked at had left Manchester at 11.55 instead of scheduled time of 7.05 and there’s another now that left at 12.26 but has no scheduled time shown.

There's quite a few now, I think they must be empty planes going to bring people back

If you look at the low/slow ones you can often see gliders round Bicester.

I’m a bit late to the game! Completely missed thread 2

I think my app must’ve updated... I now have little blue planes!

Definitely looking different this morning...

Due to the US restrictions for travelers from Europe, Air Tahiti Nui will not stop at LAX, making TN64 the longest domestic flight in the world with 16h30 from Papeete to Paris

(Stolen from Twitter)

Well I never, thanks for finding that gem......good one for a pub quiz..

I wouldn't like to be on that flight, Sydney to Dubai was long enough at just over 13 hours.

It’s an incredible feat to keep going for that long. I wonder if they have to swap pilots or anything?

When we flew Dubai to Sydney they had two complete crews and they swapped over, where we were sitting we could see them coming and going from the crew compartment in their pyjamas.

It’s an incredible feat to keep going for that long. I wonder if they have to swap pilots or anything?

The flight you mentioned from Papette is up there with outliers when it comes to flight duration but the Qantas 9 from Perth to London is I think marginally longer at just over 17 hours..I think the Papeete- CDG is more of an oddity due to the fact it can perhaps be regarded as a domestic service.

As for pilots/crewing on flights like these, rules vary (down to company, unions, national regulator). Under the rules I'm most familiar a flight much above 8 hours there will probably one extra pilot, on anything much more than 11-12 hours ( e.g. Singapore to the UK, which can be well over 14 hours in winter) there will probably be two extra pilots.

Shifts/changeovers are usually constructed on the basis that the pilots who do the take off have to be at the controls for the landing.

@notimagain That’s interesting and reassuring! How about fuel? They must need a lot for the duration...

How about fuel? They must need a lot for the duration...

It's all very very carefully planned these days (for all flights); companies generally know the fuel consumption of each individual aircraft in their fleet and they have access to very very detailed wind and temperature information across the globe, so they can run a "fuel plan" for a flight from A to B that is probably theoretically accurate to a handful of kilos - I hasten to add that an extra buffer is added to that figure to cater for "what if's" and also on top of that enough to make sure you have legal reserves in hand remaining in the tanks when you arrive at destination.

So just heard a plane flying over which is very unusual - checked and there are 2 747s on sane(?) flight path Madrid to ????

Are these repatriation flights? PLM948 and PLM946

Dh has just said he’s very relieved we don’t live under busy/regular flight paths given the level of my excitement that 2 planes have just flown over

Probablyrepat flights, yes

The aircraft involved are both based at Madrid

They are off to Honolulu - repatriation

It’s so annoying not knowing where they are going

Ok, next question, in trying to guess where they’re going, I’m looking around Iceland and have found TK6345 - Istanbul to Madrid but even with my sense of direction it seems a little off course?!

Haha! Cross posted - thank you @playthestation. I can sleep easy tonight now

It’s TK6435 that’s lost as well, not 6345. Sorry

It's a cargo flight. FR is basically guessing where it's going, badly! It happens a lot with cargo.

Phew!

Right, no more inane questions, I’m off to bed. Thank you for humouring me @playthestation

Plenty of private helicopters out on a jolly this afternoon...

Yes, I noticed that too. What's with all the helicopters?

Avoiding public transport?

I wondered why there were so many too.

I'm watching REV11T which has been on a jolly from Humberside down to Burton Upon Trent and is hanging around down there - living the dream!