Flight Radar 24 pt 2

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

The Voyager flight to the Falklands shows up, sometimes!

What does your son do?

A mere stone’s throw Marashino

Big Jet TV are live at Heathrow again today

I saw that on FB, nothing much seemed to be happening though, is it wrong to wish for a storm?!

It’s been relatively quiet so far. An Air Portugal flight got absolutely battered with some gusts on its way in

My DS is transfixed atm as it’s just been a succession of 747s and now two A380s

*@recordbox * hes an aircraft engineer (I think!) but currently preparing to apply for pilot training as he wants to fly the big C17 Globemasters . Saw a Voyager on the ground at Brize this morning - wonder if that was the Falklands one?

Just seen the first go-around at Heathrow as the heavens have just opened massively

Heathrow got hit by a couple of squalls early this PM (I was very much in the vicinity) which led to at least one go-around early afternoon (BA Airbus) due strong cross winds and the visibility dropping to not a lot...

Sadly that squall is possibly in part one reason for the RTA fatality on the M4 spur at about the same time.

Just occurred to me given the general interest re Big Jet TV and how Heathrow works, what went on today etc....a bit of back ground.

Heathrow: two runways aligned east-west. When aircraft are landing to the west then due local noise abatement rules (and a thing called the Crawford agreement) unless the holds (stacks) have really backedup only one of the runway pair is used for landing up to 3PM U.K. time, at which point there is a switch to landing on the other side..and which side is the “morning landing” runway switches every week.

I may be mistaken but from what I have seen Big Jet TV have a pitch adjacent to Hatton Cross Tube station, adjacent to the left (27 left) runway. Today 27 left was in use for landing after 3PM so they wouldn’t have captured any of the lunchtime go-arounds....

Hope that’s of interest.

Cranford agreement..not Crawford....!!!!!

That's interesting, thanks.

There's EWG1UP going from Birmingham to an unknown location - an Airbus A319.

I’m a flight radar newbie. What does it mean when destination etc is ‘N/A’?

It means that Flight Radar hasn't got the infomation about where the plane is going to, it's just one of those things.

OK...“ EWG1UP” looks like a ATC callsign...looking at the Brum departures board it might have been Eurowings 9331 to Düsseldorf.

More trivia for those so minded - pilots, ATC, flight plans and the data link system Flight radar eavesdrops on don’t use the Flight numbers you see on timetables and tickets, they use a version thereof, a corruption thereof, or something completely different. For example the BA 1234 might be “shuttle 23 whisky alpha” on the radio, “SHT 23WA” on Flight radar.

If Flight radar can match the flight number to the ATC callsign you’ll see both displayed at the top of the pop up info you get on the LHS of the screen if you click on a flight..However if it can’t match the flight number to the ATC callsign it’ll possibly have no clue where the flight is going and so will display destination as N/A = “Not available...

Just had a look, it's going into Edinburgh. It's probably a small private plane.

Thank you again Not

It was a private jet. A Gulfstream G550.

Ok, EWG is most definitely the Eurowings three letter ATC prefix...whether they’ve got a Gulfstream flying around using a Eurowings callsign position crew I do not know.

I have poor internet ATM but from what I can see from Flight radar playback the EWG 1UP at the time mentioned above takes off from the north westerly aligned runway at Brum and then makes the right turn to follow what looks like one of the standard Instrument Birmingham departures to the south east, my clunky app dumps the replay whilst the aircraft roughly over Cambridge still heading south east.

Thank you. I can feel myself getting hooked.

Sorry confusion, I was referring to the screenshot posted by JaneAusten not the Eurowings.

Ah OK.., that makes sense and I’m easily confused anyway..

My app still has no idea what happened to the “1UP” after it found Cambridge but looking at the Düsseldorf arrivals board the routine 9331 is a good fit...

Squawk from an Edinburgh to Tenerife flight, heading back to EDI

Or possibly diverting to Belfast.

Medical emergency according to the media..