There was a 4 ship of USAF F-15s headed from Lakenheath en-route to Low Flying Area 7 in Wales around 90 minutes before that. So timing for the return trip through the Lichfield air corridor means...
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There was a 4 ship of USAF F-15s headed from Lakenheath en-route to Low Flying Area 7 in Wales around 90 minutes before that. So timing for the return trip through the Lichfield air corridor means...
The USAF operate the 767 as an A2A tanker (KC-767), so probably one of those heading back home?
Schiebel we’re trying to sell these to us for Police Air Support use a good few years ago, quite impressive bits of kit.
They’re used for power line survey work in Europe with IR cameras to look...
Just had them overhead en-route back to Scampton (North East Leicestershire/Lincs border), in a 5 and 4 ship.
Nice surprise for VE Day!
I seem to remember last time I clicked on G-TEKV it was broadcasting via Mode-S and was being tracked by MLAT on FR24.
G-TEKV is an unmanned air system being flown under a civil permission (as the reg denotes) and the simple reason I think is that it won’t be fitted with ADS-B, as it isn’t required to be.
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Only on flight radar to be fair, it will be visible to Air Traffic Control, which is the main thing.
Joint Helicopter Command have established an Aviation Taskforce to support the COVID response, taking people and equipment from A to B etc.
More than likely a flight under that tasking.
The track anomalies can be caused by the method of tracking linked to the transponder/receivers. ADS-B aircraft are usually tracked very accurately, but under MLAT a lot of the track is dead...
I-GAUS is one of a few aircraft registered with the Netherlands dept for transport under a German company authorised to perform aerial survey and photo work (amongst many other companies), and from...
Ravenair operate the P68 mentioned earlier (G-RVNJ) out of John Lennon Airport, on their website they also list aerial mapping/surveying as one of their services.
Must be one of the few things...
Lol! :)
The picture with regard to civil transponders on military aircraft is quite complex, and the regulatory picture changing.
Where a military aircraft is fitted with a transponder, it will usually...