Plane Spotters / Flight Radar Thread

Rroff said:
Hate being me LOL - when I load up FR24 I immediately know the positions of the Poseidons, often even when over land, due to their position in respect to normal air traffic routes and their heading indicating likely previous and intended route.
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200ft over water with the sound of curry and doughnuts.




Ahh, Nimrod days.
 
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Some impressively straight lines (even taking into account likely computer guidance and FR24 rounding).
 
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Rroff said:
Ooof quite close to the wing striking the ground and almost certainly exposed that wing to significant stresses - hope that was properly gone over before it returned to service.
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Trying to force the gear through the wing probably counts as ‘significant’ - it went back to Nuremberg an hour later.
 
Penfold101 said:
Trying to force the gear through the wing probably counts as ‘significant’ - it went back to Nuremberg an hour later.
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Hopefully less so in the air industry, not something I've much experience of, but one of the things which concerns me about a lot of industries the attitude is often "it'll be fine, its within design loading" kind of thing rather than "it was a bit outside of normal use, lets give it a once over, better to be safe than sorry" and then you get what could have been avoidable accidents later.
 
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Rroff said:
Hopefully less so in the air industry, not something I've much experience of, but one of the things which concerns me about a lot of industries the attitude is often "it'll be fine, its within design loading" kind of thing rather than "it was a bit outside of normal use, lets give it a once over, better to be safe than sorry" and then you get what could have been avoidable accidents later.
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I’m assuming that modern aircraft like this have enough sensors to tell the pilot if anything has been exceeded, and the correct actions to follow (ground aircraft, one flight only with gear down, etc).

Older aircraft I’ve worked on had G-meters that would show the maximum loading achieved since the last reset, and a counter for all the increments and the number of them in total. Heavy landing checks were basically done based on ‘pilot reported heavy landing’.

Bit of googling - apparently airbus do load reports on thus very thing:

Load Report on A320 Family - PPRuNe Forums

Tech Log - Load Report on A320 Family - Hello, Guess the topic has been discussed a lot (Google searches leading me back to PPRUNE) However, it still hasn't scratched my curiosity itch yet. so here it goes 1. How does the BUSS calculate the Load Factor Report upon landing, is the VRTA on the...
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Crash at Southend today :(

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No news on survivors, but the lack of news isn't looking good.
 
Question for you more knowledgeable FRers. I'm fairly close to an airport and have wondered about setting up a receiver, mostly as a bit of fun. I'm sure there's good coverage already - there are plenty of people closer to the airport than I am and enough aviation industry at the site that there's got to be hobbyists around. Is there a way to see if I'd be adding anything in terms of coverage?

The only thing that makes me think it's worth contributing is we get the odd helicopter flying low which when I take a look at doesn't show in FR. Even at times things like the air ambulance for example that must surely have an active transponder on board. Any thoughts/comments from those who've dabbled before?
 
Sitting in the garden just now, my dad spots a general airliner and asks me to check it on the flight radar app, at that very moment I check the app and notice the RAF Atlas at about 17000ft flying over head (London) from Cyprus :). Was high but could still hear it.
 
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beachBOYken said:
Sitting in the garden just now, my dad spots a general airliner and asks me to check it on the flight radar app, at that very moment I check the app and notice the RAF Atlas at about 17000ft flying over head (London) from Cyprus :). Was high but could still hear it.
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It does have an incredibly distinctive whine to the engines.





The hours and hours the spend circling over my house at 10pm every night has helped me notice this.
 
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