Plane Spotters / Flight Radar Thread

Feek said:
Thanks @Scuzi, do you it'll just be a slow drop over the next few days? I still saw 2,500 aircraft over the course of the day yesterday but that's well down on the normal 3,000+ I see here.

Unrelated, LTNS squire - You alright? :)
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I’m told over the course of the next week we will see a significant drop for ~3 months. Slightly pessimistic expectation is a recovery to 50% of normal by the end of this year, and back up to 90% by March ‘21. Quite a lot of clairvoyance involved and it all depends on public confidence and key airlines surviving.

The Asian industry has already shown signs of recovery, albeit slow. That’s tentatively a good sign.

LTNS indeed. I’m good, ta... as long as I still have a job once all is done! Hope you and the family are well. I was talking about you at Christmas, recounting our journey through the green lanes of South Wales, guided by your (at the time) cutting edge Garmin. The topic was first memories of satnav in a car. :)
 
Just been looking at the stats from my receiver, about a week ago it was seeing about 2000 planes a day, this week its now down to 1400 a day.
 
Does anyone have a reccomendation for a flight tracking site or app that works well with mobile?
I used to use adsbexchange, but they've recently changed the layout and I find it much harder to use.
Doesn't need to be anything fancy, I only use it to track 2 aircraft at a time maximum and already know their serial numbers.
 
Scuzi said:
I was talking about you at Christmas, recounting our journey through the green lanes of South Wales, guided by your (at the time) cutting edge Garmin. The topic was first memories of satnav in a car. :)
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Goodness, yes - From what I remember, that was getting you to the airport and we really did tour the narrow country roads. The routing algorithms have improved a lot since then but at least we got there.

The traffic levels I'm seeing today are very similar to yesterday, still low compared to normal but not as low as I expected.

212.159.5.208 said:
I just did a temp mount outside with my antenna and now it’s all gone quite.
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It's all gone quite what? :confused:
 
Feek said:
Goodness, yes - From what I remember, that was getting you to the airport and we really did tour the narrow country roads. The routing algorithms have improved a lot since then but at least we got there.

The traffic levels I'm seeing today are very similar to yesterday, still low compared to normal but not as low as I expected.


It's all gone quite what? :confused:
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The figure I got for today was 42% drop in the London FIR for today compared to the predicted norm. 45% drop at Heathrow. 43% drop for London Terminal Control. Only a 4% drop for the Scottish FIR as the collapse of Flybe dropped their traffic significantly.

The drops weren’t as bad as expected but the next week is likely to see us running at 10-20% of normal air traffic movements.
 
I've actually seen a very, very slight increase in aircraft numbers today compared to yesterday but looking at the state of airlines, it can only go down.

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Certainly feels like more than 4% in the Scottish TMA. We're rotating staff onto paid standby at home to minimise risk. Only 4 controllers at a time on shift.
 
no idea what said:
Significant drop here too.
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I'm very slightly lower today than I was yesterday but not much in it. Out of interest, would you be interested in adding your feed to my VRS site as well (link in sig)? No ports need opening, I can just give you a very short script and a cron entry that does it all automatically.
 
Feek said:
I'm very slightly lower today than I was yesterday but not much in it. Out of interest, would you be interested in adding your feed to my VRS site as well (link in sig)? No ports need opening, I can just give you a very short script and a cron entry that does it all automatically.
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Yes, with pleasure :)
 
neodude said:
Certainly feels like more than 4% in the Scottish TMA. We're rotating staff onto paid standby at home to minimise risk. Only 4 controllers at a time on shift.
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Agreed with that, last few days there's been occasions where the sky has been empty between Talla and Machrihanish. Not a single phone call required!
 
Still a lot of flights in the air, especially over the US! Hopefully the majority of them are either cargo or being moved for storage logistics.
 
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