The FR24/PlanePlotter Thread

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PRIMUS 1 ( GR.4, ZA591 ) currently running approaches to St Athan/Cardiff.
Confused me at first, because the pilot sounds American.

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REBEL 56 out & about, currently working Cardiff for RTB Coningsby.
Typhoon, but an American pilot ( don't know if it's the same pilot reported in my previous post, given that that was a Tornado )

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Well, that was interesting.....it's not very often you look through your upstairs window and see an RN Merlin going full chuff at eye-level
Altitude showing on ADS-B Exchange as 1175ft, but it sure as heck wasn't that high - knock off the first 2 numbers and that would be closer to the mark.
More, please !

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A pair of RAF Herkys ( JIGSAW 1 & 2 ) currently low-levelling along the Devon-Cornwall coast, currently between Ilfracombe & St. Ives

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SPUR 69, flight of 3 - at least one of which is a KC-10 - routing Westbound currently over South Wales.

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SPUR look to be a flight of 2 KC-10s & a C-17 ( REACH 277 )
Also currently got QUID 188 FLIGHT ( 188 & 189, a pair of KC-135s ) routing towards Lands End.

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Thought I was hearing things with the callsign..... USAF C-32, callsign THICK 75, just coasted out Westbound over South Wales

Edited to add...
USAF E-4B, callsign HANK 15 coasting out Westbound over Brest.
KC-135 QUID 42 routing towards Lands End ( may be using QUID 190 callsign, or that may be yet another tanker )

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STRIX 22 ( MC-130 ) currently over East Wales, scheduled to do practice approaches to Coningsby but discussing doing them at Cranwell instead, then RTB Mildenhall.

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G-PROV, Jet Provost, just departing St Athan.
Air test?

Edited to add...
....or not.....
It took off, did a circuit, and has now landed.

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If anyone's interested ( it's painted in Yemen AF colours & I think it's still the only airworthy T.52 ) according to the SWAG website, G-PROV is scheduled to depart for Nottingham at 16:15hrs.

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G-BKOU ( Jet Provost XN637 ) currently up out of St Athan.

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Not sure who, but there's currently a team up over South Wales practicing their display elements.
Working 123.30
I have a feeling it's 'Team Raven', but for some reason they seem to be using the callsign 'Britannia'.

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Not sure who, but there's currently a team up over South Wales practicing their display elements.
Working 123.30
I have a feeling it's 'Team Raven', but for some reason they seem to be using the callsign 'Britannia'.

The FR24 equivalent of a slow news day then.

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Isn't BRITANNIA a Yeovilton Tutor callsign?

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Not one I've heard being used up my way, other than by the airline.
There were several UAW Tutors up at the time ( and a couple of Cranwell ones ) but whilst I've often heard them doing formation flying I've never heard them doing formation aerobatics.
Don't think it was the L-29 ( G-DLFN ) which departed St Athan either, as that was a singleton & I don't think it was up that early.

As Toya would say...'It'h a mythtewy'

[Big Eric]

As Toya would say...'It'h a mythtewy'

Toyah, not Toya.

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Thowy...I would thay finger twuble, but it'h acthuwally a cwappy wireleth keyboard.

[Big Eric]

Thowy...I would thay finger twuble, but it'h acthuwally a cwappy wireleth keyboard.

Nice reply !

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Isn't BRITANNIA a Yeovilton Tutor callsign?

You may have been right about them being Tutors.....no comms heard yet, but I think there are currently 3 of the whiny objects flying in formation near my location ( just far enough away & high enough not to be able to read the IDs or see the cockpit canopy, so can't tell if they're Grobs or Van's )

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Isn't BRITANNIA a Yeovilton Tutor callsign?

You may have been right about them being Tutors.....no comms heard yet, but I think there are currently 3 of the whiny objects flying in formation near my location ( just far enough away & high enough not to be able to read the IDs or see the cockpit canopy, so can't tell if they're Grobs or Van's )

Try the easy way. Have they got a nose wheel or a tail wheel?

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Wrong angle to tell ( yes, I know RV-8s are tail-draggers )
Given that they've gone to St Athan, I think it's safe to say they were Tutors.

[Big Eric]

Don't vans have a wheel near each corner?

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T'was Grobs....G-BYVB, VW, XD
( from the SWAG website )

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RAF BAe 146 ( KITTYHAWK 29 ) just landed at Cardiff Airport.
Presume it's Teresa Mayhem coming to churn out a load of bovine excrement about BREXIT.

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Seems rather pointless, but KITTYHAWK 29 departed Cardiff and landed about a minute later at St Athan
Departed about 10 minutes ago.