Aircraft over Copthorne early hours of this morning

[surely not]

A friend of mine who is very anti expansion at Gatwick has posted on his FB account that he was woken

last night by a propeller aircraft flying up and down the flight line as if heading east I believe. It woke me at 0025 ish last night, and I heard it at varying closeness to me ( East side of Copthorne) until somewhere around 0130. I could not see it but it was low and some of the runs were , or appear to have been, directly over Copthorne and other runs perhaps on the current take off path.

I have checked Gatwick arrivals and departures on FR24 for this period and they show no activity. Does anyone else know how to check if their was anything else flying in this area at the time? I'm hoping it was law enforcement or similar because that would show aviation as a benefit to the complainant!!

[Talkdownman]

FR24 playback shows VOR1 G-FCSL/PA31, flight calibration at A015.

[surely not]

Such a fast response, many thanks guys, I will pass on the good news.

[surely not]

As a matter of interest, and potentially also the wallet, is the playback function on FR24 only available for Premium users?

[Charley B]

Playback on FR24 is available to all users :)

[surely not]

Thanks Charley B, I will have to look more closely to find out how to do this!!

[Charley B]

Click on what looks like a clock on the RHS of the word Bookmarks onFR24 and it will mysteriously appear:)
They changed the format recently and tried to confuse us!!

[surely not]

Well they succeeded in confusing me! Thanks for your help, I am now back in the land of understanding for a little while.

[crackling jet]

Charlie B/Anyone

You sound like a man in the know regarding Flightradar, is the facillity to track inbound/outbound a/c into individual airports ie BRS -inbound/outbound available in any form


The screen seems to have recently changed and if you put BRS int the search bar only an arrival screen appears as with the departures. It's a shame if it has gone.

[DaveReidUK]

regarding Flightradar, is the facillity to track inbound/outbound a/c into individual airports ie BRS -inbound/outbound available in any form

FlightRadar24's ability (or not) to track arrivals and departures from a specific airport is purely down to whether or not there is an enthusiast feeding data to FR24 in the local area.

[WHBM]

is the facillity to track inbound/outbound a/c into individual airports ie BRS -inbound/outbound available in any form


The screen seems to have recently changed .
Still there but the old "filter" which appeared as such on the main screen got hidden.

Click on the cogwheel icon at the top right, between Premium and UTC. A sub-window appears. Click on Filters, the right hand of the 5 tabs. Under Add New Filter click on the arrow to the right of Callsign, the other options appear. Select Airport, and in the box alongside enter BRS. Click on the green + at the end of the line. Finally click on the cogwheel again to suppress the sub-window. A small 1 appears alongside indicating how many filters in use.

To get rid of it, click the cogwheel, click the red X, click the cogwheel.

Yes, you have to ask if the programmer who did the recent FR24 redesign is feeling better yet ......

[Talkdownman]

VOR1 is busy tonight calibrating Heathrow navaids.

[Westlakejawa]

Thank's for your input re Flight Radar24.Most helpful.

[Charley B]

Westlakejawa

You are welcome!I personally preferred FR24 as it was before!!