Flight Radar

[JuneJuneHannah]

Edinburgh seemed OK for a while but then I guess the storm moved over to them. It is calming down now but still very windy.

 

[WhatABore]

I use this app all the time. We live under the flight path for planes arriving at Leeds-Bradford Airport so I’m always having a nosey to see what’s above me and where the passengers are coming in from . I’ve also come across the occasional military plane.

This app came in SO HANDY last month when our flight got delayed due to bad weather, so checked the app and saw that there was very minimal activity in the overall British airspace at the time and it wasn’t just Manchester Airport.

Also I discovered a live plane spotting YouTube channel the other day, so I used Plane Finder to track the flights they were showing

There's quite a lot of the live plane spottings on Tiktok too!
Especially RAF ones! I sit and watch them for hours
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I have a friend that lives about 10 mins from Heathrow and we love doing this with her little girl

We drove to Heathrow to one of the watch spots right near and sat and watched the planes come in to land right next to the runway whilst watching to see what was coming on Flight Radar.
Loved it!

 

[WhatABore]

I do wonder why some of the flights have like 1000+ people watching them. Feel like I'm missing out I want to know why.
Some are obvious when it's a 7700 squawk or something.
Or the flight when the Pandas returned to china for example at one point had like 2.5k people tracking that 1 flight!

 

[RandomAlpaca22]

As an ex air cadet I spent many a day tracking flights haha. I also love tracking my friends and family when they are off overseas

 

[JuneJuneHannah]

Just popped up on FlightEmergency24. It's heading into Edinburgh now.

 

[emerald]

I can’t stop thinking about the poor souls who were diverted to Cologne from Edinburgh. 7 hours on a Ryanair flight.

 

[WhatABore]

Not my screenshot but had the notification come through for this last night the he was sqawking a 7700!
I thought it was just a glitch when the altitude dropped to zero.
Turns out it actually crashed!

 

[HeyBabes]

I've turned on the notifications for the emergency Squawks
Never realised there were so many though!

An emergency squawk can be anything tho, from something really exciting like the Alaskan air incident, to a medical problem onboard. 99% of the time it’s a medical

 

[VicksterIcon]

My boss's son was on a flight to Bristol from Geneva and was diverted to Edinburgh. He was put up in a hotel for the night and flew to Bristol earlier this morning.

 

[RandomAlpaca22]

What a great thread! Yeah I also spend a lot more time on it than I care to admit . I love using it to find planes with cool liveries. A fun game to play if you’re ever bored outside with someone else is to spot planes in the sky and try to guess where the plane is going to/coming from, then use the app to confirm it lol.

I have a friend that lives about 10 mins from Heathrow and we love doing this with her little girl

 

[WhatABore]

An emergency squawk can be anything tho, from something really exciting like the Alaskan air incident, to a medical problem onboard. 99% of the time it’s a medical

Yeah, like one earlier was simply because they were waiting to land at Birmingham but other planes were held up as well, circling, for whatever reason.
So they squawked a 7700 because they didn't have enough fuel for the amount of time they'd need to wait so diverted to Manchester instead.

There's so many things it can be!

 

[ShockAdGift]

So cute considering it's huuuuge.

like a flying dolphin

 

[WhatABore]

I've turned on the notifications for the emergency Squawks
Never realised there were so many though!

 

[WhatABore]

I love it too - adsb exchange is also really good, you can see military aircraft on there as well which you often can't on FR24. Our area is often used for military training so I like to see what's flying over us

We are quite close to RAF Wittering and theirs never seen to be on any trackers.
Always know when the jets I hear are from there because they don't show up!

 

[JuneJuneHannah]

Can confirm it’s bloody awful here in Glasgow. Nothing has gotten in for a few hours, bar a J2 from Prague who managed to get in not too long ago, everything else has diverted elsewhere. Feel sorry for the folk on that Sharm, they’ve been in the air for near 7 hours

Now 7700 unsurprisingly. Headed to Manchester I think?

I'm close to Edinburgh. It's wild but had a lot worse.

 

[New-Yark]

Definitely a most used app for me! The upgrades are great too and well worth the pricing. I work in aviation as well and have (sadly!) been trying to up my ability to guess the aircraft type and engines just from the sound overhead before I open the app to check

The makers of the app also have a weekly podcast - search FlightRadar24 in Spotify or Apple Podcasts - I listen religiously every Friday and it is my official Friday feeling. It’s a little Americanised / USA centric but still one of the better aviation podcasts out there. Will be a good episode today as well given the tragic incident in Japan earlier this week.