View Full Version : Very odd Hawker Beech 1000
Right now, Sunday night 1055. Been watching this on FR24 high level over Nirthern England out to the IoM then back across to Newcastle. 39000 ft then straight across the sea to Dennark but turns back.
Hawker Beech 1000. No other info.
I'm guessing military.
Any thoughts?
DaveReidUK
8th Jun 2015, 07:48
Almost certainly spurious.
Aircraft don't make instantaneous 180° turns like the one shown on the trace, and the absence of any other information such as tail number or ICAO24 makes one wonder how FlightRadar determined that it was an H25C.
Toadpool
8th Jun 2015, 09:23
If it's the aircraft I saw, it was on a 0024 squawk, which is for an aircraft performing some form of calibration. I'm guessing it was checking out high level radar coverage.
Evanelpus
8th Jun 2015, 10:09
I reckon it was a Russian Bear!
ifonly
8th Jun 2015, 16:11
Almost certainly spurious
Probably not - G-GMAB as GMA225 has been operating a number of flights overnight.
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DaveReidUK
8th Jun 2015, 18:37
G-GMAB was indeed using the quoted squawk (0624) at the weekend, though I still don't buy the instantaneous 180. :O
El Bunto
10th Jun 2015, 08:42
Probably not instantaneous, just that 'GMAB's position has to be determined by MLAT and it's quite possible to perform a standard 180 deg turn between MLAT cycles
RADAC
10th Jun 2015, 12:56
Probably undertaking radar flight trial of Great Dun Fell radar. In my day we flew the Hs125 at levels up to FL390 from 15nm inbound to the radar overhead then out to max radar range for either the primary or SSR. Procedure turn at loss of radar coverage. All the different altitude runs were on the same heading.
Recall the turn inbound at range for GDF was just inside Denmark's airspace.