Anyone looking at FlightRadar?

[pussycatinfluffyslippers]

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

Thoughts?

I love the belugas too. Very fond memories of being at Chester Zoo one day and hearing a woman tell her partner that it belonged to the zoo and took people up to get the aerial view of the animals.
I had a nasty feeling she was being serious and was going to be very disappointed 😂

She’s bloody handy for holiday advice having “been” everywhere. What she doesn’t know about random places like Kyrgyzstan just isn’t worth knowing 😁

I love FR, and the mach loop group on FB.
I love nothing more than a bag of chips, sitting on fraggle rock at Valley.
I live under a military flight route and most of the aircraft are not on FR.

I think I saw this plane just land at Glasgow an hour ago.

There is one a day, which usually lands around 12:30 pm. I presumed the plane I saw was just the second flight.

ADS-B Exchange is a bit geeky but has slightly better mil coverage.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

Just be aware that the mil may turn off their transponders (the device that sends data to Air Traffic) in certain circumstances, if they have done that the aircraft will not be visible on Flight radar...

Also be aware that due to the way Flightradar gathers most of it's data there are large areas of countryside where it cannot see traffic at low altitude, there are even some small airports where Flightradar can't see traffic, military or civilian, right down to the ground.

Just heard another aborted landing fly over. KLM Amsterdam to Manchester.

@SpikyHatePotato quite a few military flights are on Flight Radar. If you check out Flight Radar when one flies over you may see it on there.

So it will head for the UK for 800 miles and then briefly take the most direct possible route for Australia...

Off on its way to Dubai now

@CanadianJohn

My grandfather had fond memories of travelling from the US to Europe in the 50s and 60s when transatlantic flights used to land at Gander to refuel before crossing the ocean.

And, of course, it's where the flights landed on 9/11 when they closed US airspace.

I can report that the very delayed GLA to Dubai flight has finally taken off and just flown over my house - presumably the replacement A380 that was sent up from London.

Just flew over me, north of Stirling, I was a bit too excited!😂

Not quite as fast but Marine Traffic is very good for anyone whose interested in tracking boats, from smallish fishing trawlers to huge cruise liners and cargo ships. I live on a smallish Scottish island, both FR and MT get used a lot !

I must get back into FR, it’s super helpful in controlling my fear of flying and I’ve got a flight soon I need to get my nerves in check for. So reassuring seeing how many planes are up at any one time !

There is also a cruise ship tracker. It's called cruisemapper.

This thread is why I love mumsnet😍

Omg I've just gone onto FR and I'm addicted. I don't live under a flight path, but this is addictive. I've had to stay up to watch a plane safely land. Currently watching 2 planes flying towards each other at different heights.

Do they normally land/ take off in the same direction on the runway or does it depend on wind direction? Ie if the runway is north- south, do they always take off north-south or do they sometimes take off south/ north?

There was a lot of RAF Typhoon activity a few weeks ago. You could hear them flying overhead and then see them on Flight Radar.

Interesting

@hedwigismyowl

Do they normally land/ take off in the same direction on the runway or does it depend on wind direction? I

It usually depends on wind direction (take off and land into wind)...

Some places will try favour a particular direction for noise abatement purposes but only in nil wind or very very light wind conditions...

You land into wind.

Boring fact - if you are flying on a 90 degree heading, then you land on Runway 09 (as that's 90)

And if you are coming in on say 120 degrees, then you land on Runway 12.

Some runways have 09 L, 09 C and 09 R - left, centre and right - so you make sure you land on the correct runway

Looking at you Chicago

O'Hare International Airport - Google Maps

Chicago 10 C and 10 L - I guess it's important to get the right one.

The markings have meanings as well.

I live near Leeds so just looked at what’s near me right now, and there’s an Ibiza flight due to land here in a few minutes, but it’s gone right past. Wonder why?!

Oh ignore that, it’s done a u-ey at skipton

Yup, looks like they are landing on Runway 14 (southeasterly heading of about 140 degrees, as cakeorwine explained)...so the aircraft has headed around the airport on the western side then made a u-ey to the right to align for landing in the required direction

Thanks, I see why this can get addictive!