Storm Dave - Flightradar - especially Leeds Bradford.

[WhatIMean]

Anyone else watching?

If you found FlightRadar addictive, make sure you tune into Jerry on his YouTube channel “Big Jet TV”! As another poster said, he’s live again this morning!

Yes, well. @notimagain is a pilot (former pilot?) who knows what they are talking about, and is often on flightradar threads talking considerable sense.

It was as necessary as his pedantry.

Ahh, just what every thread needs. A “knowledgeable man” to keep us little ladies right.

It's definitely An Event when those bloody massive 787s go over or land.

https://youtube.com/shorts/U8UqZEpZSOU?si=VDoL0BoWgHLMggL9

I saw one over central London when I was travelling on the bus the other day. They sound different and just look fckn HUGE

Ah. Sorry. I forgot.

The Airbus a380.

https://youtube.com/shorts/hOZgBcNP5pU?si=9V8dCQ-aM75mdhsQ

Yes they do sometimes, especially when they are operating in airspace where civvies are also present...

Where has it been said that @notimagain is a man? On here, most posters are women.

So wish I had found this thread last night - I find it so interesting to watch!

Who gives a shit whether the pp is a man or not? 🙄

I (and many others) welcome posts from knowledgeable people on threads like this one.

In the absence of female pilots posting on the flightradar threads, I'll make do with the information shared by @notimagain if it's all right with you.

@IAmKerplunkme too 🤣

This is a specialised thread and I too welcome specialised knowledge.

Me too - I was reading this thread last night before I went to bed, and was actually waiting for that pp to turn up.

Me too. I love hearing from more knowledgeable people so in the future I can pretend to be an expert 🤣

Me too!

Indeed. @notimagain is a regular here on the FR24 and has been incredibly helpful over the years.

I have been looking at the flyers on the flights, too.
It's so interesting to see how many flights the frequent flyers actually do.
Granted, they're mostly crew, but it's a snippet into another world 😊.

Explaining something and giving information is not pedantry.

Thanks for some of the previous.

I was probably a bit harsh with my first post this AM but (and I kid you not on this) to commercial pilots, former and current, "doing a TOGA" comes across like the sound of a thousand fingernails being dragged down a hundred blackboards.....

I'd hate it to enter the MN vernacular but maybe should have handled it more gently.

My Dad always referred to Ringway for Manchester! There was a flight to Gibraltar many years ago when the Spaniards had the land border closed, they were not allowed to fly over Spain and once when the wind was horrendous the flight was diverted to, I think, Casablanca!

You weren't harsh at all.

How do you see that?

It's what we used to call Touch and Go when the RAF we practicing it.

Seconding the question ‘how do you see that?’.

I'm afraid as far as TOGA goes that's a not quite..

The TOGA system and the associated TOGA switches that operate it come with the aircraft, they're not a manoeuvre.

On Takeoff (the TO bit of TOGA) when appropriate you press the TOGA switches and (aircraft dependent) the system sets take-off power and sets up part of the instrument system to give take-off guidance to the pilots.

On approach if you need to Go-Around (the GA bit) pressing the switches gives you go-around power and go-around guidance on the flight instruments.

Sometime relatively recently some communities got hold of the acronym and started using TOGA as a verb ...as in "to do a TOGA"...but it wasn't in pilot speak as a verb when I was working and I don't think that has changed.