Originally Posted by
Prangster
Just had a Patenavia Victor of Ravenair overhead tracking 270. According to the FR details its supposed to be Liverpool Aberdeen so what's he doing heading west just south of Mansfield on what appears to be a reciprocal to Liverpool?
FlightRadar24 assumes that a route can be derived from an aircraft's callsign/flight number.
For an airliner, that's usually a reasonable assumption. For GA aircraft, much less so.