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Post by landmannnn on May 19, 2022 9:25:58 GMT 1
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of air traffic. Mid morning on a Thursday isn't even a busy time. Attachments:
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Post by Polarengineer on May 19, 2022 9:58:31 GMT 1
A flightmare.
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Post by tim17 on May 19, 2022 18:43:21 GMT 1
We're under the flight path from Spain and N Africa, during the various lockdowns the skies were free of vapour trails but now it's as though the pandemic never happened.
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Post by gigi on May 19, 2022 19:34:21 GMT 1
I was saying something similar to my husband earlier - we live on a flightpath for Heathrow and the clear skies were a huge bonus during the early lockdowns. There was similar effect during the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, when clouds of ash and dust were thrown into the atmosphere.
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Post by Aardvark on May 19, 2022 19:39:05 GMT 1
A few days ago, while taking the dog for his morning trek I happened to look up to take in the absolutely clear blue sky to see only three vapour trails. Forming a perfect equilateral triangle, at seemingly the same altitude and the same thickness. Weird.
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Post by landmannnn on May 19, 2022 22:10:10 GMT 1
Yep, here in 87 the flights from Northern Europe to the baliarics pass, too high to hear, but some amazing patterns on Saturday morning.
I guess Saturday is changeover day.
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Post by hal on May 19, 2022 23:02:16 GMT 1
Here in God's country, not under a flight path, but it is the testing airspace for Airbus, so we get to see the Belugas out for regular airings. What a magnificent graceful bird that is
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Post by spectrum on May 20, 2022 6:58:04 GMT 1
Been on flight radar for some time also on the shipping one as well, when you look at the English channel its unbelievably congested.
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Post by plog on May 20, 2022 9:38:28 GMT 1
For info the days of airliners at cruise altitude following fixed published routes which included airways that were only 10 miles wide has pretty much gone... As long as there no air space restrictions controllers try and generally get traffic from one side of their airspace block (which for example can be half of France) to the other in a straight line, no turns, no messing around overflying beacons. Even given the ability to freely route you'll see evidence of demand on a particular route, e.g. with regard to Saturday over central France you'll see a lot of UK traffic southbound / northbound going to/from Barca, Reus, etc and the Balearics, all on similar routes but possibly differing in detail (e.g. the entry/exit point "up north" into UK airspace) depending on which airport is involved at the UK end. Free Route Airspace
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Post by pcpa on May 20, 2022 20:25:31 GMT 1
so we get to see the Belugas out for regular airings. What a magnificent graceful bird that is It takes off and lands only 1km from my hôtel but not directly overhead, after 13 years its still the only aircraft to use the airport although that will soon change big time and god willing might just save the day for me after covid taking away 100% of my now defunct business. It is amazingly quiet, looks and sound like Thunderbird 2 only more muted, a joyous sound!
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