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Post by RayG on Feb 9, 2015 18:49:58 GMT
Clear for most of the day down in Cornwall but clouded over by about 4'ish. Today's haul - ZE707 BAE 146, N808JG Gulfstream 5, ZJ119 Merlin, CS-DSC Falcon 7X and C-GHPV Boeing 787.
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Post by keithh on Feb 9, 2015 19:29:42 GMT
Made four today, two in London during tachometer break, and two on the way home. SX-KFA CL604 A6-AIN 737BBJ TC-JIS A330 D-CEXP Lear 36
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Post by RayG on Feb 10, 2015 16:38:42 GMT
Cloudy overcast day in Cornwall so nothing hits the book today.
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Post by graham on Feb 10, 2015 19:02:49 GMT
Good to be back, cloudy all day in Birmingham so nothing in the book, but here is yesterday's haul including OTT's...
G-'s
EZDY A319 EUPP A319 EUPZ A319 LGNO SAAB LGNR SAAB LCYD E170 LCYG E170 LCYI E170 LCYN E190 LCYR E190 MAJW JS41
Foreign A6-EDG A380 A6-ENW B777 EI-EZW A320 EI-FAS ATR72 F-GRXK A319 N228FR A320 departed BHX yesterday afternoon ex-G-ZBAA TF-FIA B757 VQ-BHO P180
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Post by graham on Feb 11, 2015 12:57:15 GMT
Clear skies this morning for an hour or so, then filled in and right murky now.
Did make three though..
ET-ALC B763 routing to Shannon, return to lessor EI-EKS B738 down to five Ryans now G-VOOH B789 OTT on LHR inbound
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Post by terrytoo on Feb 11, 2015 13:06:47 GMT
Evening Just the one (lucky one too), not trailing but sun shone in the right place HZ AK 23. I've potted his brothers 24 & 25 over the last few days too (well week). Have fun Terry
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Post by jerryrowe on Feb 11, 2015 14:19:46 GMT
Hello from Tenerife. Arrived here yesterday after an eventful journey. Were literally at the door of our intended craft G-ZBAR when it was declared unserviceable,taken back to the terminal and bussed to G-OZBM. Sat on this for a further 90 minutes while the cabin staff tried to reconcile the passenger manifest with the bodies on board! Finally left 3 hours late.
Hadn't been to LGW for a while but only made 3, G-NSEY EMB190 of Aurigney, VN-A141 777 of Vietnam and UR-PSF 738 of Ukraine.
Little of interest at TFS, which handles most of the international flights but none of the more interesting inter-island stuff. No sign of any biz or general aviation, mostly UK on the ground (5 Thomas Cook, 3 Monarch, 3 EasyJet, 1 Thomson) plus PH-XRA of Transavia, LN-DYE/NGO of Norwegian land 3 Ryanair. Made nothing.
Passed TFN on the way to the hotel, saw a Swiftair 737 taxiing but could not see the ramp or general aviation area from the road.
Hotel was not chosen primarily with aviation in mind, and have seen nothing so far either on approach/departure or OTT, just one military chopper. FR24 works fine but I think we are outside the T-MLAT zone as there is no sign of the inter-island ATR72s. PlaneFinder is temperamental, e.g. a Condor A-321 shown on FR24 as about to land at TFS was shown on PlaneFinder as 50 miles southat FL350, but still showing destination TFS!
Good news is that there is free Wifi in the rooms so I will be able to keep up with events. Bad news is that I will probably have little to report!
Bye for now Jerry
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Post by keithh on Feb 11, 2015 15:34:42 GMT
Hello from Tenerife. Arrived here yesterday after an eventful journey. Were literally at the door of our intended craft G-ZBAR when it was declared unserviceable,taken back to the terminal and bussed to G-OZBM. Sat on this for a further 90 minutes while the cabin staff tried to reconcile the passenger manifest with the bodies on board! Finally left 3 hours late. Hadn't been to LGW for a while but only made 3, G-NSEY EMB190 of Aurigney, VN-A141 777 of Vietnam and UR-PSF 738 of Ukraine. Little of interest at TFS, which handles most of the international flights but none of the more interesting inter-island stuff. No sign of any biz or general aviation, mostly UK on the ground (5 Thomas Cook, 3 Monarch, 3 EasyJet, 1 Thomson) plus PH-XRA of Transavia, LN-DYE/NGO of Norwegian land 3 Ryanair. Made nothing. Passed TFN on the way to the hotel, saw a Swiftair 737 taxiing but could not see the ramp or general aviation area from the road. Hotel was not chosen primarily with aviation in mind, and have seen nothing so far either on approach/departure or OTT, just one military chopper. FR24 works fine but I think we are outside the T-MLAT zone as there is no sign of the inter-island ATR72s. PlaneFinder is temperamental, e.g. a Condor A-321 shown on FR24 as about to land at TFS was shown on PlaneFinder as 50 miles southat FL350, but still showing destination TFS! Good news is that there is free Wifi in the rooms so I will be able to keep up with events. Bad news is that I will probably have little to report! Bye for now Jerry I'm sure I read something about ZBAR going to St Athan for storage? It's the only Monarch I need!
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Post by jerryrowe on Feb 11, 2015 15:55:52 GMT
No, G-ZBAR not at St Athan, operated the MON2108/9 today (so yesterday's problem obviously not serious, just annoying!)
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Post by graham on Feb 11, 2015 18:06:23 GMT
Ended up on those three posted earlier, although I did miss EI-FIB on her way into BRS
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Post by mick on Feb 11, 2015 19:06:13 GMT
Driving to Croydon off the M25/A23 I went past The old Croydon Aerodrome. On my left outside and perched on a pole is G-AOXL DH114 Heron. This is a false reg and has the actual registration of G-ANUO. Seen it many times before but never logged it. Whoops!
Regards Mick
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Post by keithh on Feb 11, 2015 20:45:27 GMT
No, G-ZBAR not at St Athan, operated the MON2108/9 today (so yesterday's problem obviously not serious, just annoying!) Apparently it went in for a check
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Post by graham on Feb 12, 2015 17:22:47 GMT
Four in the book today and all from late afternoon
JA14KZ B748 N999LR GLF5 G-RHYM PA31 D-AILD A319
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Post by tj on Feb 12, 2015 18:20:55 GMT
You were lucky to see anything today Graham - Cloudy all day here in Fleet/Farnborough area
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Post by graham on Feb 12, 2015 19:31:35 GMT
Right claggy here TJ till later on in the day, those four went in the book in the space of an hour or so
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Post by RayG on Feb 13, 2015 16:23:21 GMT
A couple of hours of clear skies thus morning in Cornwall enabled OY-TCG, OY- TCI Airbus 321's and TC-JOC Airbus 330 to be noted.
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Post by jerryrowe on Feb 13, 2015 16:25:11 GMT
Report from Tenerife........
Well, not much to report really. First clear day today, approaches to TFS pass the hotel about 10 miles away at FL160 before turning left to cross the southern tip of the island, but mostly British, non-needed European or of course the ubiquitous Ryanair. TFN traffic mainly arrives from the east and takes off to the east so is not visible. Exceptions were a CanaryFly ATR24 and a Binter ATR72 seen yesterday, but neither showed up on FR24 or PlaneFinder!
Wifi signal is very variable, often fails in the room so have to go to reception, what a nuisance!
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Post by christoff on Feb 13, 2015 16:56:50 GMT
In a rare glimpse of blue sky,managed to add 1 to the books today. Thats 22 for the month so far.
G-EZOA A320 EZY46YM EGKK-GCTS
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Post by jerryrowe on Feb 13, 2015 17:01:21 GMT
Has clouded over now in Tenerife, just in time for me to miss the first decent thing which went by, RA-73018 757 of VIM.
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Post by keithh on Feb 13, 2015 21:08:52 GMT
Late break at headstone today got me two. SE-RJT 737 HL7784 777
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Post by RayG on Feb 14, 2015 18:41:28 GMT
Few more breaks in the cloud over Cornwall today meant that OY-FWO Falcon 7X and N30913 Boeing 787 were noted.
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Post by graham on Feb 14, 2015 18:55:29 GMT
Quite decent here today, mainly blue but with cloud bubbling up occasionally. Made eight
A6-EBC B773 G-SDRY c525 TC-JDP A330 LN-NGZ B738 F-GSQI B773 OE-LVB F100 EI-FIB B738 N525FE MD11
Rather cheesed off that I missed almost new Air Bridge Cargo B748 freighter VQ-BVR which I tracked from Cork in blue skies, only for it to cloud over as she went OTT here
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Post by keithh on Feb 14, 2015 19:56:43 GMT
Late break at headstone today got me two. SE-RJT 737 HL7784 777 I wrote Heston, spellchecker again. Cloudy today not a sausage
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Post by jerryrowe on Feb 14, 2015 21:53:13 GMT
Frustrating day here in Tenerife. Plenty of breaks in the cloud and several seen but most unidentified. None of the interislandflights appear on PlaneFinder, and only a few appear fleetingly on FR24, probably because they fly too low to be picked up byT-MLAT. Saw 5 or 6 but only identified EC-IYO and EC-LFA ATR72s of Binter.
FR24 is OK live for TFS approaches from the north, but it's playback generally gave results which in no way corresponded to what I had seen. PlanePlotter was even worse, both live and on playback. Only one possible pot positively identified, OH-JTZ 738.
May take a trip to TFN in the next few days by local bus. Many of you will remember this as Los Rodeos, scene in 1977 of the world's worst ever aviation disaster.A KLM and a Pan Am jumbo collided on the runway in fog, 583 died.
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Post by graham on Feb 14, 2015 22:06:30 GMT
Suspect Jerry that there are very few base stations in your neck of the woods uploading data to FR24, Plane Finder etc, etc. I find the same when we go to Crete, I can visually ID an inbound to Kazantzakis at our apartment beneath final approach yet FR24 might show it as still being 40-50 miles out over the Aegean Sea
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Post by terrytoo on Feb 15, 2015 2:58:38 GMT
morning In case anyone is interested Dabolim Airport appears closed. I started the SBS as 7 am (local) to see an Air India and a Vim (RA 73018), circling at 20k, AI did 2 circuits then off to BOM, Vim circled for 30 mins ish then off to BOM. The daily Air Asia India(VT ATF) from Bangalore remained at 34k did a pass over the airfield & IS returning to BLR, it's now 08.21 and a Transaero (EI UNW) is circling at 23k,about to do a pass over the airfield. The Air Asia India is returning, but remaining at 34k looks like it's diverting to BOM. It's 08.32 and VT ATF is now circling the Transaero is doing another 23k pass over the airfield and G TUID is approaching from the north at 24k too (15 miles to run).
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Post by terrytoo on Feb 15, 2015 3:14:04 GMT
Well Thompson, did a 24k pass N > S over the airfield for a looksee. Transaero still circling at 23K, as is G TUID now, both doing anti clockwise loops out over the sea, VT ATF is heading away to the east circling over the beacon at Belgaum 50 miles east of GOI. Transaero doing another pass over the airfield followed by G TUID , all maintaning altitude.
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Post by terrytoo on Feb 15, 2015 3:28:14 GMT
08.51 and VT ATF is descending but not hurrying, just had an apparent departure, VP BLP (Aeroflot)(on side table as level at 0 feet).Transaero from Moscow must be seriously eating into his fuel reserves now, he's been circling for 30 mins. VT ATF has levelled at 30 k, possibly will join the 'stack', Transaero going for another looksee pass.
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Post by terrytoo on Feb 15, 2015 3:46:33 GMT
09.02, looks like the fun is over, EI UNW looping north and descending now at 16k. G TUID, maintaining 24 k but heading north (to BOM ?), VT ATF possibly returning to BLR. G TUID heading off to BOM climbing at 28k. Transaero at 7K and shaping up for an approach. 8 miles out at 2500 feet and turning onto runway heading. IndiGo's VT IEW is about 50 miles out, descending & lining up. EI UNW on finals 1600 feet, lost him at 550 feet.VT IEW still lined up at 20k and 30 miles out, both the Air Asia India & Thompson are out of the picture.
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Post by terrytoo on Feb 15, 2015 4:10:23 GMT
VT IEW, has done a run down the centreline at 13k, so problem may still be extant. he is still descending though, tightish turn to the south maybe 6 miles out and at 10k. Looks like he is going for another look at 7k but opposite direction . 10 ish miles out over the sea 4500 feet,still descending, looks like he's going for another looksee. Going down cenreline at 3500 feet, opposite direction to the Transaero's landing.I reckon he was a fighter pilot, another really tight anti-clockwise turn at 2400 feet & lining up.Descending.Couple of miles out at 1200 feet, lost him at 475 feet.
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