[Closed] What's this plane up to?

For lols?

Crop dusting?

Testing sensors or radar calibration?

Crop dusting?

I do this in art galleries.

I do this in art galleries.

*high fives fellow crop duster*

*high fives fellow crop duster*

Move swiftly, and be silent...

It's trying to find a conveyor belt.

Ha! I want to know this too. Back in the summer I was sat in the garden one evening when I noticed a small twin prop plane making circles above my house. I started noticing it regularly and mentioned it to a mate as I thought I’d been imagining it. He sent me a screenshot from flightradar which confirmed it.

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That's where I saw it. It was identified as a civilian airliner, but was on the screen for the military planes, too.

That’s where I saw it. It was identified as a civilian airliner, but was on the screen for the military planes, too.

Trans World Airline?

Engineering checks maybe or pilot training , hours etc to remain validated.

Yeah, BAE train pilots, don't they? And test aero stuff, obvs. Are there military 737s in use which that one could be being used as a test bed or training platform for?

Its a paedophile, they must have run out of schools at the disguise shop.

He's a perv, with binoculars, waiting for yer maw to slip into something more comfortable.

Our new maritime reconnaissance aircraft if based on a 737 - the Poseidon MRA1 so probably training flights. there are plenty of old civil airlines grounded at the moment so probably leased dirt cheap for training flights. The fact its still registered to Afghan Airways is probably because its not officially changed title yet. I suspect it will be owned by a lease company and they've not re-registered it or something like that.

Isn’t Barton a grass strip? Unlikely to be a 737.
Possible transponder code mix up?

It'll be an FR24 glitch, happens all the time. Barton is a grass airfield indeed, so will not have a 737 operating from it.

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So we've had one or two F16s (I think) passing over today and yesterday (Gower) but when I look on adsbexchange they don't show up...I clicked on the U button. What am I doinging wrong?

Not every plane shows up on the tracker, military have obvious reasons for not wanting to give away their locations. There are other sites which are developing networks of other mode receivers like 360Radar but, in my experience this is expensive and not much better than the free sites. In fact, I pretty sure they guy behind 360 is on a scam as he gets you to pay for functionality that has never been delivered and he won't tell you when it will be.

Ok ta

Ta...I meant F15 (or maybe 18 or 22 I guess)

Lot of military flights take off near me - jet roar is a giveaway - but not all show up on adsb (U) - the Poseidon's often (but not always) do, the Typhoons less so. They're also often not showing up when below a certain height, not sure what the threshold is.

Saw a twin engined plane the other night looping over Bradford. Looked later on the app and it was one of the new police planes that had flown out of Doncaster.

There’s often a fair bit of aircraft activity around where I work in Westbury, as it’s on the edge of the ranges on Salisbury Plain, and it’s surprising how many don’t show on ADSB, while others do. I sometimes hear big jets go over, and there’s nothing on the tracker - one I heard a couple of weeks ago was fairly low, but so was the cloud, but I caught a brief glimpse of it through a break in the cloud, and I’m pretty damned sure it was a B1-B Lancer, with its wings extended. As it’s flight-path was pretty much due North, that would take it to RAF Fairford, where they’ve had B-52’s stationed recently, and last year I saw a B-52 flying south which would indicate it was from Fairford, it wasn’t that high.

Would have been interesting seeing a 737 clear Barton bridge on take off 🙂

I’m in west Bolton and we regularly get military flights overhead, we must be under a flightpath. Would love to know where they go to and from.