Flight radar tonight

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Why are they so many military flights over Lincolnshire and north sea ?

theres many typhoons and 5 canadian air force planes

He's a bit of a geek with random stuff like this. He's definitely fed up of me showing him a load of random planes I'm following on flight radar

Me too 😂 need to brush my teeth yet and here I’m following a drone 😂

It's only night exercises from 30th September for a week.

Flight radar has made aircraft identification easy….

Tap on the aircraft icon on the flight radar map and usually the type is shown in the data panel that pops up on the left.

If you’re not a spotter so don’t recognize e.g. “Global Hawk” then simply stick the type into Google and all will be revealed.

It's the MQ9 ones we need to be worried about, they're the weaponised ones. Apparently.

The info is there in flightradar.

One clue to whether something is a drone is the colour of the flight path line, it varies with altitude. The red line means it's higher than normal planes

FORTE13 is one of these:

This is the kind of gem my DH comes out with. Reads too many spy books for my liking 🤪

We have flights go over us (Scottish Highlands) that don’t appear on flight radar. A particularly loud helicopter last night and nothing to be seen when I checked.

If you look on flight radar now, where is the plane nearest your hose going to? Mine is going to Austria :-)

So, is this all just the usual stuff or what? And if it's what- what is it?

Doesn’t look like the USA plane was going to tel aviv. Where is it going! Is there any USA base anywhere. ?

This is why I love living in Lincolnshire 😍

Saw a huge plane flying up the river this morning, so low down as it flew up the Conwy valley. We get a lot of activity at times too.

9:10 Saw two lights silently go over Scarborough that seemed to be going through low sparse clouds as if at either end of a large craft. Nothing on FlightRadar this close to coast. Thinking now must have been an illusion and it was two slient planes much higher (still not right for radar as I was 200m from the sea and the lights were ahead of me) think my brain manufactured a faint cigar-shape between the lights like it was a weirdly silent small passenger jet.

That happens whenever I look on there as well. I initially lost interest for that reason.

Completely normal for the RAF and allies to be exercising. Cobra Warrior happens twice a year and is a huge event for aviation enthusiasts

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8xqzppl3xo.amp

I'm in Lincolnshire and 2 jets have just roared over. Not showing on flight radar though

The US airfirce unidentified plane is heading into Jordan just now.

What's this one at 51000 feet?

These two are presumably practicing refuelling?

Read the thread. it's a drone

Oh I think that was maybe the lights I saw (see other post in thread).
Was low and yet spookily slient though.

This query/comment crops up a lot…there can be a couple of reasons..

Flightradar is eavesdropping on data sent from aircraft intended for Air Traffic Control, and mostly gets the info from receiving equipment set up by amateurs dotted around the world.

If an aircraft is a low altitude a long way from any such receiving equipment then Flightradar won’t “see” it, won’t display it…that’s very commonly the case for low flying aircraft and helicopters out over the countryside a long way from population centers.

Also not all aircraft or their operators are happy with their data going public, so some aircraft (often military, some police, some VIP stuff) are often hidden, either for the whole of a flight or any part of it deemed sensitive.