Originally Posted by
pax britanica
Mr Reid, I am sure you know the answer, but I was looking at FR24 this afternoon and there were some interesting LHR movements consisting of Piper Cherokees and a Cessna . Similar ones from/to LGW, is this because they are visible to LHR or LGW radar and therefor FR24 shows them as headed there since clearly they were not going to actually use either airport .
I've not noticed that before, but having just replayed yesterday afternoon on FR24, I see what you mean.
If you look at the replay for 12:20, Sonaca S200 G-LKAM can be seen on approach to Blackbushe at the end of a 40 minute sortie, with the route shown as N/A to LHR !
I have no idea why FR24 shows an obviously incorrect destination - I was under the impression that it usually deduced the origin and destination from the callsign/flight number, but it looks like there might be more to it than that.