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Lyco Ming
22nd Apr 2021, 06:36
Does anyone know why the three Little Wings aircraft are no longer visible on FlightAware ("This aircraft is not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator") or Flightradar24?

Could it have anything to do with their recent announcement of Medical Wings as a program sponsored by Newcastle Permanent to fly on a monthly basis across NSW - sounds a lot like a charter operation rather than the patient transfer flights for sick children and their families that are their "one simple yet important mission".

Lead Balloon
22nd Apr 2021, 10:48
Ahhh, aviation. No end of self-interested dobbing arseholes.

Lookleft
22nd Apr 2021, 23:55
Who cares if they are not on Flightaware? As long as they are visible on ATC radar when they are required to be then anything else is irrelevant.

Aussie Bob
23rd Apr 2021, 03:04
My version of flight aware is to look out the window of my bugsmasher.

Squawk7700
23rd Apr 2021, 04:40
If you're that concerned you can probably still see them on FR24.

KRviator
23rd Apr 2021, 04:56
I'm just wondering what Lyco Ming's fascination with Little Wings is. :confused:

He/She/It/They seemed quite interested (https://www.pprune.org/10665045-post1.html) in a Baron operated by them that hit skippy last year too...
Anyone know anything about a Baron involved in a landing accident at Maitland on Tuesday? Rumoured to be a Little Wings flight with passengers from Inverell but nothing in the mainstream media or on ATSB web site.NSK is registered to Little Wings and FlightAware shows it was inbound from Inverell so, presumably, had passengers on board.Heard that the aircraft is a write-off.Another example of the CASA rules for community service flights having absolutely no effect on accidents and incidents in this sector.

Hamley
23rd Apr 2021, 14:08
... sick children and their families ...

You come across as operating on very low moral ground. Like really very low.

What’s bad about helping sick kids?

SCPL_1988
23rd Apr 2021, 18:43
Flight Aware only shows a small fraction of ADSB signals.
I use an antenna, receiver, feed FlightAware and others and have
access to every signal that I can receive which is instantaneous
and not up to a 15 min censored delay.