Flightradar - Odd flight pattern!

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747 from Istanbul to Maastricht, currently off the coast of South Wales 🤔

Flight no is TK6319.

Or picking up cargo. Pretty standard operations really

Not 'in' the North Sea obviously!

The Falcon is in a hold pattern

Ah It’s turned, must be refuelling!

BA haven't announced any plan to park up 777s..., it's one of the long haul fleets they are planning to keep running...

It’s landing at Shannon and it is going on to Chicago. That was always the planned route.

Look at the flight path for FA20. Little Falcon having a whale of a time doing turns in the North Sea...

Falcons are Cobham Aviation, used for RAF training. Common over the sea there and very often accompanied by a voyager refuelling aircraft

The Falcon is in a hold pattern

It's not. It's a training aircraft for the RAF.

Can anyone tell me what the Babcock Onshore helicopters do? There seem to be an awful lot of them around today!

It seems to have just landed in Shannon - but it's cargo, so may have been mislabelled as to destination

Ah It’s turned, must be refuelling!

What.the Cobham Falcon? I more than somewhat doubt it..

As kilisbird said they they fly around, sometimes doing interesting flight profiles in support of training for the military..

I stand corrected re: the Falcon. It is a Falcon belonging to Cobham Aviation, used in contract with the military to provide training and simulation.

Interesting about the Cobham Falcon, thank you

Does look like a toddler got hold of a crayon though...

Sorry, never saw page 2

that fa20 looks like its doodled on the map