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General Discussion Area / Re: Flightradar24
« on: Yesterday at 19:19:50 »I have been using Freedar.uk more recently as it shows more military aircraft
There are days when there are loads of Gliders active in the Hull area, facinateing seeing the trails they leave.
They don't come as far south as Hull / Humber due to the lack of thermals
They take off from Pocklington and tend to float around the Vale of York
There are thermals everywhere on a good day.
The main factors are wind direction and airspace, assuming they're not ridge soaring which is obviously confined to the right ground features.
Hi Kev
Are you still gliding ?
I'd have thought it would have been a bit dead on the thermal front with the flat ground and with the cooler Humber in the middle
I know there is a east / west flight corridor that comes right over the top of Hull.
We also get quite a few military aircraft transiting north / south under the flight path
I was sat near the Humber bridge last month watching a couple of Typhoons playing / burning fuel up
I take it fuel is less expensive then tyres nowadays
I know that the old lightnings was always burning any excess off before dropping back into Binbrook back in the day
Not like they had much fuel to waste in the first place
I've been watching the Air sea rescue S92's out of Humberside Airport on Flight Radar myself quite a bit.
They tend to transit north @2000ft / 135 knots north upto a training spot just north of the Whitby coast late at night a few times a week then back home over the top of my house.
Noisy buggers
Yes, just started up gliding again last weekend after lockdown grounded us.
Complex airspace does tend to keep gliders away, since you can't plan with the precision that a spam can can.
I think there's a danger area along the coast there up to something daft like 60k feet+, so that explains the fast jet antics.
