Flightradar goings-on

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I'm following UAE7TR from Dubai to Gatwick. It is currently flying towards Birmingham instead of Gatwick.

Anyone any ideas what's happening with that one?

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Not many details to go on?

Is it because of the supposed Russian package on the plane that caused a fire?

Yes those are hot air balloons. They're very high and provide internet capability for smaller island nations.

It does state it's a balloon (although they spell it ballon)I never imaged they'd fly at over 50,000 feet though, virtually zero ground speed which does sound right. Appeared from the middle of the ocean, private owner. Bizarre!

Google is your friend 😆

I have my plane finder app set to alert me when an aircraft squawks a general emergency. I must then track the flight till it lands safely. I like to guess at the new landing airport too.

Good question.

I go and look and just see tiny pretend planes 😂

What's going on with this one?

I love a bit of flight tracking.

I live in a very military area and regularly see aircraft in the sky at night but absolutely nothing on flight tracker. I see the typhoons and the N/A aircraft etc all on the tracker so I'm curious as to why there is nothing at all over my area and yet looking at the sky there definitely is?

I can draw conclusions but interested if anyone has anything actual info on it!

They can turn off the thing that allows flight radar to track them.

A drone ?

Manoeuvres no?

Military?

I'm guessing it's someone having fun practicing night flying.

There's fire engines stationed permantly at Birmingham, at least 5 is those that are being shown?

@KnickerlessParsons Patrol plane for the channel?

Why do these Flightradar thread always start just as I want to go to bed.?😁

Circling around is what they do when they can't land just yet - this explains why you see them circling in specific places. I looked up the playback of a flight I was on recently, which was delayed a bit coming in, and could see which stack I was in.
Holding stacks Heathrow

You can select whether to see ground vehicles or not in your FR options. If you choose to make them visible, they appear as grey blocks. I don't think you can distinguish between fire engines and other vehicles though.

I was about to say the same!

Could be though I'd have thought they'd use military planes?

Air traffic control have to know where they are, obviously, and they seem to show up on FR when they are actually driving about, or near or on the runways. You can sometimes see the maintenance trucks and baggage handling vehicles as well.

It’s a plane commissioned by the Home office.

www.jetphotos.com/photo/10981384

There is another app that tracks military flights, can't remember the name but sure there will be someone on here that knows it

I looked at flightradar and was going "Ooh there's a pile of aeroplanes just above Crawley!" ... that's because it's Gatwick airport. 🤦‍♀️

As if by magic...

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