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anyone use a FREE program to follow aircraft movements.
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I use Flightaware, but for specific flights only.
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Flight Radar
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Me too for FlightRadar24, pretty good.
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Yep, my vote is fr24.
Sitting at the observation area at the north side of Tulla is pretty cool when you know what's coming in, especially when the a380s were regular visitors! Available via a Web browser or the free app. My suggestion is that you turn on call sign text labels. Once you get to know the callsigns, it makes it easy to identify aircraft of interest. For eg, pc21s around East Sale use ROLR (Roller, a student pilot), MERL (Merlin, a formation flight) and CTRL (Central, a flight ftom Central Flying School) or air ambulances that use AMXXX.
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cheers guys excellent chioce
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Funny that, about flights, I used one to follow shipping, was 8 years ago but it was pretty cool, especially around the straits near a Indonesia where all the pirates operate!.....
![]() If I want to follow the flights I just stand outside the front, one every few minutes, couple of k's away, but they fly into Perth all night sometimes, none of this 11pm rule! Cheers BillyR ![]() |
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I was after this due to what I thought were strange flight paths from Lincoln airport but all OK.
But fair go browsing away and the number of aircraft flying across the Atlantic is crazy, thought there was a pandemic grounding.
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When I was a kid we went to Liverpool Airport, now John Lennon airport.
But we would lay on our backs at the last set of landing lights before the jets landed, felt like you could reach out and touch them!.. ![]() Cheers BillyR ![]() |
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Oh, and we're under the flighpath for any aircraft travelling between Melbourne and Aukland, or vice versa. But, at about 30,000 ft, there's not much to see really. Although, even at that altitude, you can still pick out if it's an Air New Zealand or Qanatas aircraft. But I've been living in Sale for most of my life and am very used to this level of traffic.
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Yeh foxtrot, I live about 5 klm from Perth airport, they come in from the east at maybe a thousand feet, but unlike Sydney they don't stop at 11PM
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Yep, runway 21 (ie 210° magnetic) seems to be the predominant active runway at Perth.
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In 1977 I worked for a welding contractor, when the F111 jets come to Amberly I was welding the fuel supply pipework, from tank farm to hangar, too cool, if a jet was flying in and you were on the ring road heading home, you get a stop light and an F111 would be right in front of you, the pilot and navigator would wave to us, too cool eh! Cheers Billy ![]() |
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Funny thing about The Cunard Line is a warship (HMS class) would often be plotted shadowing the newer Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2 around various parts of the world. In some instances the Cunard ships would often disappear off where they were last anchored. Never had any trouble plotting Holland America line which he liked to go cruising on.
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RAAF C130J active around Nowra https://www.flightradar24.com/TROJ20/2963ce24
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Pretty easy to follow cruise ships these days. A lot have ended up on the beach in India or Turkey being scrapped.
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Ships aren't really my thing. Unless they're being stalked by an aircraft
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few years ago I ordered a big laser cutter from China, couldn't fault their service, the factory owner was educated at Eaton college, they arranged shipping etc
Was fun tracking the ship down China to Singapore, panic arose when the ship continued onto India, panic phone call to factory and 5 minutes later our container had been transferred to another ship with out them being advised watched second ship travel down to Aus, Perth, Adelaide unloaded in Melbourne then trucked back to Adelaide.
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Ok, so here's one that intersects with the maritime world.
The learjets are employed out of Nowra to support the Navy's fleet operations, particularly used as target towing aircraft. https://www.flightradar24.com/LJ45/2963ca43
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A few fire bombing aircraft operating out of Hamilton airport. Unusual for them to be up and about at this time of the year and in these conditions.
https://www.flightradar24.com/BDOG372/29640c5f
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Yeah, there's either something going on around the Dundas Ranges that's not on the Vic Emergency site, or it's training.
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I reckon it will be summer training, they do that around Albury airport starting October. Though with this amount of rain we've been having in the NE, it will be a late fire season.
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If anyone's interested in following the RAAF, Navy or Army aircraft via FR24 (noting that not all flights are on there, for obvious reasons) here is a list of the callsigns in use. Makes it easy to spot an aircraft of interest.
http://www.swld.com.au/pages/aus_raaf_callsigns.htm
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My property has a unit on top of my hill that feeds the FlightRadar24 website.
It is a Pi unit with RF module. I can connect to it on my LAN and see live data whithin a 200km radius.
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Yeah i couldnt believe that a curfew on a major city , we got stuck in a big electrical storm along with about 20 other planes waiting to get in ....we were the last plane to get in
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