Flightradar24 Interesting Finds

[cqaigy2]

Oh man, I remember that video. A friend showed it to me about 15 years ago. Internet gold.

I vaguely recall when they did that. Watched it on the news on a color TV a huge 19" CRT!

 

[dmccarty]

It’s actually pretty cool, the personnel on the Coast Guard helicopters always take time to wave to you if we’re out on the water or the beach. Also, nothing like an A-10 or two coming in low over the tree tops. I know they’re supposed to stay above 500 feet or so, but man it seems like sometimes you can count the rivets. Ha ha.

Once upon a time, I was driving up the Florida Turnpike and four A-10's were "attacking" a Cypress Head which is a stand of trees in the water. They A-10s would stack up, dive one by one to "attack" the Cypress Head, pull up and repeat. They were flying pretty low and it was fun to watch. The nearest A-10s I knew about were based in SC so I guess they just picked this random spot to go "attack."

Another time I was on a sail boat off of Miami and F16's out of Homestead lined up to attack us. However, they stayed up pretty high and it was not so obvious what they were doing. There were two of them and they would take turns doing a shallow dive at us before pulling up, and repeating.

 

[dmccarty]

I "looked" fo the A380 out of Texas last night but I was a bit late and did not see it though I looked all over the eastern seaboard. Saw some 747 cargo planes but did not see the A380.

Had to look it up and these seem to be daily flight to/from Texas and Dubai. Sometimes they use a 777 and other times an A380. It would be easy to miss the 777. Hard to miss the A380.

 

[MossRoad]

I "looked" from the A380 out of Texas last night but I was a bit late and did not see it though I looked all over the eastern seaboard. Saw some 747 cargo planes but did not see the A380.

Had to look it up and these seem to be daily flight to/from Texas and Dubai. Sometimes they use a 777 and other times an A380. It would be easy to miss the 777. Hard to miss the A380.

If you know the flight number, which usually is the same every day, you can look it up by that and it'll find it if the plane is in the air.

 

[MossRoad]

Many years ago we were vacationing on the east coast. We were out on Virginia Beach, and flights of F-14s kept coming in off the ocean, buzz the tower at the Naval air station, do go arounds, then land. It was going on all afternoon. So loud!

Later came to find those were coming off an aircraft carrier off shore, and they were to be decommissioned and destroyed. So that was their last carrier takeoffs ever. Sad to witness that history.

 

[dmccarty]

If you know the flight number, which usually is the same every day, you can look it up by that and it'll find it if the plane is in the air.

I did not get the flight number, but from what I read, the airline does a flight from Dubai to Texas in the morning and then returns at night. Which makes sense. I will try to "see" the plane again, if I can remember. Though it is really only interesting if it is the A380.

The only other four engine plane I sometimes "see" is a 747 flying out of SC to Germany. I assume that is a military flight because it is a leased 747 and it is not a regular flight. I did see Air Force 2 once. Took some digging to figure it out because the flight details were vague but it became obvious based on the departure and landing airports.

 

[MossRoad]

They might be EK211 and EK212
Dubai to Houston and Houston to Dubai

OR
They might be EK221 and EK220
Dubai to Dallas and Dallas to Dubai

Those are the direct flights, I think.

 

[MossRoad]

This is EK211 in the air right now.



Maybe the flights you're seeing aren't non-stop?

 

[MossRoad]

Anyhow, next time you see it grab a flight number. It'll be fun to see how it's getting there.

 

[MossRoad]

Dubai to Huston a few minutes ago.

 

[dmccarty]

They might be EK211 and EK212
Dubai to Houston and Houston to Dubai

OR
They might be EK221 and EK220
Dubai to Dallas and Dallas to Dubai

Those are the direct flights, I think.

Dubai to Huston a few minutes ago.

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Yep, it is EK212 from Houston to Dubai. I have been stalking, errr, ah, following, them for the last week or so, if I remember to look at the website in time.

The flight is seldom on the same path. I have seen it fly over NC at least three times, one night if flew through western TN and KY, one flight to avoid weather, they flew east, on shore, along the Gulf until going into the Atlantic around Jacksonville, FL, and another weather avoidance path was some big zig zag pattern I think over TN, KY or AR. Two of the three flights over NC look to be pretty close. Course the time it flew over me, it was not really that far from the other two paths. Especially for a jet flying around 700 nmph. Some of the flight were really booking along I assume because they picked up some upper level winds.

It is interesting to follow it and there are only 4-5 A380 in the eastern US at that time that seem to be heading to London, Dubai, and I think I saw one going to Singapore.

 

[rgr33]

I noticed 2 days ago, the drone was back flying back and forth over the Black Sea,
It launched out of the lower end of Italy. Good to see the US was not impressed by Russian pilot idiocy

 

[bcp]

At this time, circling over Crimea. The other end of the flight path is Chihuahua, MX.

Bruce

 

[RSKY]

I use Planes Live on my iPhone. Been using it for boredom relief while quarantining with COVID. Saw some Alpha Jets flying around the panhandle of Florida. Does the US use these now or are European Air Forces training in the US? Could they be Ukrainian pilots? I know that Whitley in the panhandle is the second busiest airport in the US counted by landings and takeoffs of military student pilots.

RSKY

 

[ning]

This wasn't on flightradar of course.
Almost directly overhead.

I assume this is a ER-2 because it's white? usually the U-2's I see flying out of nearby Beale are very dark.

 

[MossRoad]

BEAUTIFUL!

 

[JethroB]

I heard and saw two A-10 Warthogs again yesterday playing tag. I looked up in time to see the chaff or flares dropped by the lead plane. As usual they didn’t show up on FlightAware.

Example:

 

[LHF2019]

Picture taking?

 

[MossRoad]

Picture taking?

Probably. Aerial survey of something. Photography. LIDAR.

 

[LHF2019]

Today this one has been circling for past 20 minutes and as I type this it is still doing slow circles.