The plane enthusiasts thread

[DaveReading]

ADSB?

I use Flight Radar 24.

FlightRadar24 is based on ADS-B.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

There are indeed two. G-HIAL in the last image and G-SGTS pictured at Glasgow this morning.

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Yeah those blue and white 'Twotters' are such a common sight. I was on the train once (a class 320 (Scotrail)) heading west to Dumbarton and watched as one flew parallel to us, it seemed almost as though we'd out pace the poor thing, but gradually, it caught up and drifted past. It was all so slow though! 😆

 

[DaveReading]

Yeah those blue and white 'Twotters' are such a common sight. I was on the train once (a class 320 (Scotrail)) heading west to Dumbarton and watched as one flew parallel to us, it seemed almost as though we'd out pace the poor thing, but gradually, it caught up and drifted past. It was all so slow though! 😆

The Twin Otter and the Shorts Skyvan are the only aircraft known to have suffered a bird strike from behind ...

 

[figbat]

This just flew overhead… in fact it’s come back for a second run as I type this!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

This just flew overhead… in fact it’s come back for a second run as I type this!
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Funny, I saw 2 of them over Falkirk the other day. Never seen them in Scotland before.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Apparently a bunch of Hercs did a farewell round the country flight the other day there, but I missed it completely.
I kinda' like Hercs too.

 

[figbat]

Apparently a bunch of Hercs did a farewell round the country flight the other day there, but I missed it completely.
I kinda' like Hercs too.

Yeah - I saw it was happening and saw the schedule too, but I was at work and they came close but not close enough. Retiring the end of this month.

 

[DaveReading]

Funny, I saw 2 of them over Falkirk the other day. Never seen them in Scotland before.

I remember a couple visiting in 1967.

 

[gbb]

Couple of sightings late this afternoon...
Well, first was heard, a helicopter out of sight but ADSB tells me it was an Apache, out of a Norfolk airfield, did a run up to just south of Newark, across a bit then down past Peterborough.
Later as we walked the grandkids to the park....oooooh, a B1 Lancer, unmistakable, swept wing, relatively slow and banking north west. First one I ever saw.
And maybe 15 minutes later, a twin engine boeing or airbus, lowish, headed in the same direction as the B1. Probably military because you never see then that low, travelling in that direction.

 

[gbb]

Sat on Mablethorpe beach, what appears to be a couple F18 Hornets flying around for the last hour.
Couple of Eurofighters are showing south of here, but these F18s ? are not showing at all on ADSB

 

[Drago]

This just flew overhead… in fact it’s come back for a second run as I type this!
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The road between us and the next village runs along a ridge and it's quite common for Apaches to shadow cars along there, sometimes even flying sideways as they go. I expect the cars get lumed for practice purposes.

 

[DaveReading]

Sat on Mablethorpe beach, what appears to be a couple F18 Hornets flying around for the last hour.
Couple of Eurofighters are showing south of here, but these F18s ? are not showing at all on ADSB

Maybe F-15s ? They are a fairly common sight over Lincolnshire and East Anglia.

 

[gbb]

Yep, while they were high the silhouette had a distinctive tail, a quick Google images showed the F18, not the F16 looked similar, forgot about the F15. F15 most likely then

Maybe F-15s ? They are a fairly common sight over Lincolnshire and East Anglia.

 

[gbb]

Lovely old Dakota just flew over headed south.
I suspect living near the A1 gives us more opportunity to see such aircraft.
Lanc, spits, hurricanes, emergency helicopters quite often, all sorts of stuff seem to use it (the A1) as a visual navigation reference.

 

[classic33]