Any flightradar 24 geeks?

[KingsleyShacklebolt]

Some very interesting traffic heading to Scotland for Cop 26.

PRES101 from Aerolinas Argentinas appears to be about to land at Prestwick.

Private jet LNX29KG also en route to Glasgow.

The Inverness flight landed before 10. That was an Aberdeen one circling over Stirling.

Yes thanks for the new app too whoever first suggested it. Even more fun after being a keen Flightradar24 user for about 5 years!

What is this new app of which you speak? 😂

A delayed reaction from me because I had to get ready for bed but I opened the window and listened to it pass over, then SAM46 shortly afterwards. I'm in the east end of Glasgow and I was texting my dad, who was watching it from the east coast.

That was enough excitement for me tonight

I found this fascinating to read. About the anti missile protection systems that AF1 has:

https://theaviationist.com/2018/10/23/these-are-the-systems-that-protect-air-force-one-from-heat-seeking-missiles/?gl=111puborjrjgaYW1wLVFGanNfZnFOLWx5bUVEeENZSlZhMW5rRk1DMkx0bTU5Yk9MOEs3T01pZ3NDeGtTZldodGxFX2ktbnZBY05KZjg.

Had to be out most of the day and all this evening, so the thread has moved on about ten pages and I’d missed all the excitement! Anyway I’ve read through it all so have been able to participate retrospectively (though some of you have been slacking by not going out to lie in wait for AF1 with night vision cameras!)

Thanks all!

This photo in the Scotsman looks awfully like the one @CormoranStrike took and posted on this thread.

One thing’s for certain - it certainly wasn’t taken when POTUS departed last night..

@notimagain

One thing’s for certain - it certainly wasn’t taken when POTUS departed last night..

Well no. The standard of journalism in this country is appalling.

@Sexnotgender

This photo in the Scotsman looks awfully like the one *@CormoranStrike* took and posted on this thread.

It is my picture yes, used with my permission, but indeed, a photo of him arriving, not departing. The nighttime pics wouldn’t have been particular clear!

Still lots going on this morning, seen a couple of private jets and military aircraft for the people who decided to stay another night. Or Leo di caprio.

Glad they didn’t just steal it @CormoranStrike, you never know these days.

@Sexnotgender

Glad they didn’t just steal it *@CormoranStrike*, you never know these days.

All totally above board, thanks.

I’ve gone onto the website and looked - they do have a video of his nighttime departure and the caption is on that, my photo is just illustrating part of his visit I think.

If a slightly bigger dark/black helicopter goes over my house and doesn’t show up on either Flightradar24 or Military freedar, does that mean it’s Royals or RAF etc?

Any bodies guess really though the Royals don’t tend to fly around tha5 much in big helicopters such as Chinnoks.

There might be a whole host of reasons why it’s (or any aircraft for tha5 matter) not visible on a tracker., some quite innocent,

certainly if you live out in “the sticks” and the helicopter is at low level it might simply be that it is operating below the lower level of tracker coverage in your area.

Chinooks …….

Should also add it used to be the case that Royal helicopter flights were well published by the UK CAA, including routes and timings to avoid any risk of conflict with other traffic.

Not sure what the current state of play is but they certainly did not used to be stealthy..anything but.

It’s not a chinnock, we get them too. Just seems slightly bigger than normal. We get a lot of military traffic. This one definitely seems to be flying quite low, so maybe it’s just not picked up

Which app is best for picking up military aircraft? There's been a couple of helicopters overhead today but they don't show on Flightradar24. Coastguard shows sometimes but it's inconsistent.
PS I haven't RTFT

Personally mainly this:

globe.adsbexchange.com/

Pretty good coverage of both civilian and military, some of it’s features are a bit techie and probably only of interest to a few, so is possibly many might find it bit less user friendly Flightradar.

I sometimes switch between ADS-B exchange, Flightradar and plane finder as suits the mood.

I don’t often look on Flight Radar and only use the free version. Just checked to see what the noisy plane was flying over us and now see that it shows ground support vehicles at BHX? Has it always done this?

Not sure if it’s always had that feature but it’s being showing suitably equipped ground vehicle for a while…

Thank you. Why would they do that do you think?

Air Traffic Control at major airports often use a thing called Surface Movement Radar to help keep an eye on what is going on the ground (aircraft, vehicles, etc)

skybrary.aero/articles/surface-movement-radar

It’s really something really comes into it’s own on days when the visibility is so bad that it’s not possible for the ground movement controllers to see runways and taxiways from the control tower.