Plane spotters. Teesside visitor today

Norfolkred1

Norfolkred1

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Looks like we have one of these bad boys for a few hours according to the movements, between 1400-1720

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I’m off to work on a slightly smaller aircraft at 15:00 so will miss it unfortunately. A beast in the sky! Massive compared to a Herc.
 
How can you tell , like 5hr ahead ? Is there a schedule list for military departures and arrivals. I use both adsb exchange and flight radar but find them poor for reliable tracking of military flights.
 
Work near airport , i think that has been over before , don't they have to know the approaches etc to all airports , or is that urban myth?
 
We had one of them circling quite low around our house for a few days, a week or so ago. People were jumping out into Poole Harbour (with parachutes). Quite a sight!
 
Benjiboy said:
Work near airport , i think that has been over before , don't they have to know the approaches etc to all airports , or is that urban myth?
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I expect they all show up on the computerised map on screen, and also in the pilots book (as a backup), this was how they used to do it anyway.

Would be too much, asking pilots to remember or know them all, and if it was done by memory it would leave too much to chance.
 
Love the 3 or 4 pages of blank space on the landing page before it finally shows you todays movements. Hence me looking around the site for 10mins on the main menu links and not finding the detail I was after 🤦‍♂️
 
once a year we go fishing and rent a holiday home on the River Lark at Isleham, near Mildenhall, and between 8 am and 8 pm its a plane spotters paradise.

We usually see tons of these, along with fuel tankers (Stratotankers maybe?), V22 Osprey, and pairs of what I think might be F18's.

they dont affect the fish and are pretty cool to watch all day.
 
Billy69_uk said:
once a year we go fishing and rent a holiday home on the River Lark at Isleham, near Mildenhall, and between 8 am and 8 pm its a plane spotters paradise.

We usually see tons of these, along with fuel tankers (Stratotankers maybe?), V22 Osprey, and pairs of what I think might be F18's.

they dont affect the fish and are pretty cool to watch all day.
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Probably F-15's rather than F-18's.
 
Humpty said:
Looks like an empty plane to me. Do they ever carry any passengers?
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They can be configured to have rows of seats I think, like how a passenger aircraft would, but I never went in one when it was like that.
 
Boro_Interlinked said:
Love the 3 or 4 pages of blank space on the landing page before it finally shows you todays movements. Hence me looking around the site for 10mins on the main menu links and not finding the detail I was after 🤦‍♂️
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I think they've recently updated the website and the formatting has totally gone to pot. It used to be nicely tabulated a few weeks ago.

I really should message them and let them know, but you'd think they would be checking any changes that have been done.
 
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