Screamliners.

[511Flyer]

If you want to know where they are when flying. Try http://flighttracker.newairplane.com

I've been tracking one from Doha to Heathrow. Due to land at 11.34, so if I go out into the garden, I'll probably see it.

Also, one of Thomsons left Glasgow an hour ago en route to Cancun. Last spotted over Londonderry. Or should that be Derry?

D.

[JohnD]

Thanks for HU. I love new technology including FR24, Planefinder and the Virgin app on the iPhone.

Shame this wasn't available when I was a plane spotter in my youth.
Regards

John

[Garry Russell]

I can't get it , it just usues 100% resource until eventually locking up the Laptop

You'd be better using FlightRadar24 and running a filter

[FlyTexas]

You don't need software to track a 787...just look for the trail of smoke.

Brian

[511Flyer]

It runs fine for me. I've got SKY Fibre Broadband. I also watched Flightradar24 on another tab and picked it up as it neared Heathrow. I didn't see it as it got stacked up over Essex. It actually landed on 27 L runway, whilst all other aircraft were landing on 27 R.

I wonder why??

[dodger]

Hi,

Yesterday afternoon i got a glimps of the 747-400 LCF Dreamlifter passing over my home but like a few aircraft on FR24 lately no info as to where it was going or where it had come from,

I tracked it from Kent until the NW of Ireland and later in the evening i found it tracking the East coast of the States heading and landing at JFK,

First time i have seen this 747 and it made a nice change from the run of the mill,

Thanks for HU. I love new technology including FR24, Planefinder and the Virgin app on the iPhone.

Shame this wasn't available when I was a plane spotter in my youth.
Regards

John

Same here John but it's nice to be able to sit in the garden now i'm retired [although i think some of my nieghbours think i'm stange ] and be able to find these details.

Roger.

[Garry Russell]

Don't always trust the origination and destination on FR24, there are many errors especially when a number is used for a temp set of flights. The other day an Alitalia routed from Rome to Cork but FR said Rome to Nice.

The hex code, flight number,speed height and position is sent by the aircraft. That is tied up with a database which enthusiast create. As regard the hex code, some aircraft transmit the wrong code for various reasons.

For example a couple or so years ago in the spring, for several weeks, there were two G-BYGA's. One was a British Airways 747, the real one and the other a Thomas Cook A.320 but only on Radar Virtuel as it was a database error. On all sites at the same time G-COWE, a Beech C90 King Air was reported operating Virgin flights mainly from Africa. Not sure what it should have between but it was an A.340 with the wrong code. There are currently nearly 400 known "bogies" flying around the World.

My favourite was BA LHR-Lisbon flight that had a proper reg for an Airbus A.321 was on screen as a Robin DR.400 2+2