9 Typhoons of the East Coast

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9 Typhoons of the East Coast

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Just browsing ADSB and saw these. I assume its a practice for next next week?
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Re: 9 Typhoons of the East Coast

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There are actually around 20, but not all are 'pinging' on ADS-B.

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Re: 9 Typhoons of the East Coast

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keithjs wrote:
Fri 27 May 2022, 10:05 am
Just browsing ADSB and saw these. I assume its a practice for next next week?
Impressive I'm sure. Thank you.
While I'm here, a friend keeps seeing a Chinnok east of High Wycombe about 3pm every Thursday heading north east but doesn't ping. Any ideas of which one? Long shot I know but thought I'd ask anyway. Thanks for your time.
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The RAF Chinook fleet don't run to any kind of schedule, so it's probably just a coincidence that your friend sees one at that time on a Thursday.

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Big Eric wrote:
Fri 27 May 2022, 11:12 am
The RAF Chinook fleet don't run to any kind of schedule, so it's probably just a coincidence that your friend sees one at that time on a Thursday.
Thank you for your time. He's an avid ADSB user and was wondering why they don't blip?
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Lots of military helicopters and fast jets don't blip on public trackers (ATC can still see them on radar though), the crew have just elected not to give their position away to the general public and have turned it off.

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