Unreliable Flight Radar Data

[ianhind]

There must be something deliberate about those schedules. Perhaps the holiday companies want the fleets of coaches taking the Brits to the hotels at the same time. On more than one occasion when I've flown out of East Midlands (not the busiest airport) to Majorca, one of the aircraft that took off before our flight was also at Majorca. And of course when you're coming home, all the flights are leaving for the UK at the same time so it is chaos.

Another observation although you wouldn't have seen it on FR24

RAF Tristar ZD952 was heading up this way at around FL280 yesterday. Thought I'd take a look out to watch it go by. Then it started to descend like a high speed lift going down. BY the time it got here any chance of seeing it had gone. It ended up going in to Manchester but that was hardly a typical airline descent profile.

Maybe they suddenly decided to pop in to Manchester for ice cream.

[DaveB]

If you've got it.. flaunt it!

Are there any other decent, Windows based radar progs out there? I know you've mentioned at least one more that you use (the one showing the TriStar being one) and it'd be nice to see a little variety. Looking at the South of England down to NW France this morning, it'd be easy to believe that Ryanair, Thomson, Monarch and EasyJet were the only aircraft in the air.. punctuated by the odd BAW. That said, it often looks that way so nothing unremarkable. The earlier Ezy flight tagging onto the Tom and Mon Scarebuses was out of Brizzle btw, not Man. Gad knows why I said Man Must've been the early morning heat!

Flight of interest this morning.. a Cessna 182 flying in between Walsall and Sutton Coldfield enroute Cannock and then Stafford. Nothing remarkable about it other than it wasn't Monarch, Thomsom or Ryanair It didn't overfly me either

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DaveB

[Garry Russell]

If you look at FR at about 05:30BST you will seen 15 so Germans at anyone time all heading for Majorca.

I think they're going early to get their towels down on the beaches.

[DaveB]

The wind has backed and they're using 15 again but remarkably, everything is turning early. Dirty rotters

Who uses 'Kestrel' in their callsign? Heard one this morning but not visible on FR24

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DaveB

[TSR2]

Kestral used to be "My Travel" and Thomas Cook changed to Kestral when they took My Travel over

[DaveB]

Thomas Cook it is then.. cheers mate

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[Tomliner]

Kestrel used to be the call sign of Airtours.Also I think that Thos Cook used Topjet at one time(or was that Air2000?) EricT

[Garry Russell]

I only remember A2000 using JetSet

Kestrel was at one time used by Kestrel

[Tomliner]

Garry I just remembered that Air2000 was Jetset..Did Airtours take over Kestrel because I'm pretty sure that they used Kestrel as a callsign.EricT

[DaveB]

How complicated can this be I must confess, I thought I may have asked a question with an 'obvious' answer There was a TC aircraft on finals when I heard it on APPR.. he may have just moved to TWR but for sure, TC was in the action

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