Anyone looking at FlightRadar?

[pussycatinfluffyslippers]

There's an A380 supposed to be Heathrow to Dubai (UAE30) currently just north of Wakefield.

Thoughts?

This thread has made my day.

@highlandspooce how do you know all this? Mind.blown.

I like this app !!
Wasn't working for me for a while.
And don't know how to use it properly so can't track this London to Dubai flight.
My 5 yr old son gets excited when a plane passes - he's like "daddy quick, check the map, where is that plane going"? Bless him :)
In my case - it's Edinburgh airport as I sort of live in the flight path for it.
But it gets interesting when one of the REALLY big planes are really high - and you can see them as a little dot in the distance with there plane trails :)

Looking at the weather radar - I think they've got what I had in Cheshire earlier.

You mean some of the holding/traffic patterns...According to the last Liverpool airport weather report they had a thunderstorm in close vicinity/overhead in the last hour, so possibly it's a consequence of that...

Ah ok. All flights are holding. One from the IOM has returned.

Oh this is brilliant, my 5 year old always asks where the plane is going when it flies over our house. Now I can check and let her know!

Flight SRR6977 has taken a rather curious route from Belfast to Nottingham via Barrow in Furness, Lancaster and Burnley - also, I'm guessing, due to the storms.

So glad there are other FR fans out there. We seem to get a lot of Dubai flights over us. Love to stand in the garden watching them go over whilst tracking on my phone 🙈
we all have our foibles!

I'm a bit late to the party but FR is favourite past time. I'm about a mile from Manchester Airport and we've just had a hell of a storm here. My house literally shook after one big thunder bang. Glad I was watching all those circling planes from the safety of my sofa. I would not have liked being on a plane during that!
There was a TUI flight aborted it's landing during the worst of the storm and got diverted to Newcastle. We hear the aborted landings because they swoosh right up again above our house.

I was in Turkiye recently staying quite near a military air facility and loads of planes/helicopters were going over that weren't on FR.

I'm not far from their USAF base in Suffolk, at times it seems like the Ospreys are going to land on the opposite house's roof they're so low!

Ah - this thread reminds me of the day 1000's of people (mainly journos) were tracking Priti Patel's flight from Kenya to be sacked after her shenanigans in Israel...and the day Big Jet TV seemed to take over twitter... happy days!

Hi. I'm new to Flightradar! It's fascinating! How do you spot these planes doing odd things?

@pussycatinfluffyslippers @CurlyhairedAssassin

You must both be near me! I live very close to where the Beluga lives. I get more excited than the DC when it flies very low over us. ‘Look! LOOK!!! The beluga! Boys! Look at it!!!’ ‘Err, yeah, ok’. Grrr.

I'm near a Chinook training flight path - always look out the window when I hear them coming! A couple of years ago there were 3 in succession, incredibly loud, and when I popped my head out they were so low they looked like they were about to land in the fields behind my house!

Love Flightradar, very useful where I live to see if any of the BBMF are up and practicing. Used it the other week to watch when a Spitfire would be coming over and it was going around in circles in the area, my daughter thought I was magic.

Apparently the record for the most tracked flight ever is, or it was, the flight bringing the body of the Queen to London from Edinburgh, when it flew towards its destination there was hardly a plane on the sky over the South of England.

Reminds me of the ear splitting time when the Spitfires, a Lancaster, a couple of Hurricanes and, I think, a Vulcan flew over my house, they'd been practising for the Trooping flypast, an amazing site.

Slight tangent, I was at London City this morning waiting for a flight, and a BA plane came down to within about 3m of the runway and then flew away again! I couldn't believe what I'd seen, so fired up Flightradar to check.
It's a pretty steep approach and very hard on the brakes once on the ground, but I was very . They did make it down at the second attempt.

I’ll try and pop out and get a pic of it when it takes off! There’s already a few pics kicking about if the two a380s at Glasgow 😂

I know someone who, when really bored, pours a glass of wine, picks a random flight on FR, researches the destination and chooses a hotel. A purely hypothetical holiday!

(It was bright sunshine and no trace of bad weather at the time)

Does anyone know a flight radar equivalent that tracks military aircraft? We get chinooks and apaches over my workplace at about head height on a fairly regular basis and I'd love to know where they're going to/ from

The London City set up (slightly steep approach, short runway) is such that if the aircraft hasn't touched down by a set of markings (?lights) then a go-around is mandatory....If I recall things correctly from those who flew in there regularly touchdowns were closely monitored by the airport authorities and there were serious sanctions for anybody who broke the rules.

Just found this spotters site that has pictures:

https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=734929

@mananarama that's amazing and a novel way of using FR! I might try it! Thanks for sharing!