Sorry for going into pedant mode but since the disbandment of 100 Squadron, the 9 Hawks based at RAF Leeming (Hawk T2A) are part of 11 Squadron and mainly used for training Qatar Emiri Air Force pilots jointly with the RAF.
The Hawk is from the joint Qatari Air Force training Sqn at RAF Leeming. The other one is a Learjet C-21A, US Air Force Europe used as a VIP transport. I've seen it at RAF Northolt a few times as that's a regular spot for military VIP flights.I hope this is the right thread to put this in (I've never used this part of the forums before!), but I was looking at FlightRadar24, and saw this flight: https://www.flightradar24.com/SARAB11/311e1f1b
I'm by no means an aviation expert, but I've been hearing loud planes going overhead these past couple of days (as well as seeing a couple flying past earlier today) and was able to find the tracking info for this one just now. Does anyone happen to know what sort of thing it might be doing? I've never looked into aviation enough to have even the slightest idea what it is, so I thought it was quite interesting. I'd really appreciate any explanation!
Thanks in advance,
-Peter
EDIT: I've also just seen this one, which is apparently a US plane. Never seen one of those round here before! Would anyone happen to know what it's doing?
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Expect Bing or Google to have updated "satellite" images of that area in the near future would be my suggestion!
Appears to be operated by "SLAGBOOM & PEETERS AERIAL SURVEYS.".
Informative, thank you!May be helpful for the future.
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I heard this plane fly over me in the north of England yesterday afternoon at 19,000ft and wondered what the hell it was doing.
It did a few loops after leaving Dublin, presumably to burn fuel; thought it would have returned there but in the end it diverted to Cologne (at the time I looked it was still shown as going to Antalya). It flew most of the way there at 19,000 ft. Guessing it had some sort of fault and the airline wanted it to not be stuck in Dublin, what sort of things would cause it to only go at 19,000ft.
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Given it climbed to 19,000ft after the orbiting and remained at that level for the entire transit, wouldn't that indicate something else? Don't they usually stay at no greater than 10,000ft with any kind of pressurisation failure?
Ah, I saw one fly North over my work in Sheffield last week, but presumed it was RAF. Skycanner said it had come from Northolt but didn’t show where it was going.
Possibly to verify that the localiser signal is present and correct across its full design width.
Interesting, thank you. That would also explain the non-standard altitudes being used.
The localiser is part of the ILS.
Perhaps it's a tribute to Hercule Poirot, he was Belgian.
