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Paul O'Rourke 16th Sep 2020 00:30

What is this Aircraft doing?
 
I noticed this aircraft at FL120 doing large orbits of Warrnambool Wednesday morning 10am i'sh. I've counted upto 5 orbits but could have been more. It has no ADSB output. Does any body know what it is doing and what the pod is on the belly?

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8b00925c3e.jpg

Squawk7700 16th Sep 2020 01:21

Survey 400 the C208 does laps of Melbourne constantly. A couple of weekends back it was airborne for at least 5 hours. Doesn’t show on FR24 so can’t see the exact grid.

machtuk 16th Sep 2020 02:02

Grubby Andrew's heard someone from Melb escaped his dragnet!

brokenagain 16th Sep 2020 02:32

It’s entertaining reading the posts online from the Melbourne nutjobs now that they’ve discovered some of the flight tracking apps. Lots of furious posts of screen grabs of survey planes and Polair over Melbourne with numerous theories ranging from chemtrails to child trafficking tunnels to shipping in Chinese troops under the cover of darkness (I **** you not!). The Melbourne Traffic Managers number was also posted on one of the FB pages too, I imagine the phone calls they were getting very quickly changed from funny to annoying.

Ascend Charlie 16th Sep 2020 03:12

What's it doing?

About 120 knots.

340drvr 16th Sep 2020 10:30

"It turned me into newt!"

currawong 16th Sep 2020 11:42


Originally Posted by brokenagain (Post 10886296)
It’s entertaining reading the posts online from the Melbourne nutjobs now that they’ve discovered some of the flight tracking apps. Lots of furious posts of screen grabs of survey planes and Polair over Melbourne with numerous theories ranging from chemtrails to child trafficking tunnels to shipping in Chinese troops under the cover of darkness (I **** you not!). The Melbourne Traffic Managers number was also posted on one of the FB pages too, I imagine the phone calls they were getting very quickly changed from funny to annoying.

Friendly neighbourhood CASA FOI once told me they were "obliged to investigate every complaint".

Lucky them....:rolleyes:

717tech 16th Sep 2020 12:26


Originally Posted by 340drvr (Post 10886524)
"It turned me into newt!"

He got better though...

Ixixly 17th Sep 2020 03:13

I do believe it's flying good sir. Apparently it's what those Aircraft do.

Stationair8 17th Sep 2020 06:18

Monitoring Warnambool harbor, for Chinese submarines that will taking Chairman Dan to his new life in Wahun.

nonsense 17th Sep 2020 17:05


Originally Posted by Stationair8 (Post 10887071)
Monitoring Warnambool harbor, for Chinese submarines that will taking Chairman Dan to his new life in Wahun.

No, it's much more benign than that; they're keeping an eye on the penguins.


Rotor Work 18th Sep 2020 02:45

It’s Bob Hoover doing his Shrike Commander Energy Management aerobatic routine

Lead Balloon 18th Sep 2020 09:11

It is disappointing when important safety issues are trivialised.

As a consequence of multiple criminal offences by the aeronautical data originator for Warrnambool, the ERSA shows the aerodrome elevation as “12,242 ft MSL” rather than “242 ft MSL”. The poor bastard’s been doing circuits and trying to land on a 12,242’ AMSL runway.

This is why Part 175 is so important.

Ixixly 18th Sep 2020 10:36

LB wins :p

swh 18th Sep 2020 13:55


Originally Posted by brokenagain (Post 10886296)
Lots of furious posts of screen grabs of survey planes and Polair over Melbourne with numerous theories ranging from chemtrails to child trafficking tunnels to shipping in Chinese troops under the cover of darkness (I **** you not!).

To be accurate what is happening is the US Covid vaccine trial is in Melbourne, the aircraft are aerial spraying Covid across the population to see how effective the vaccine is. The vaccine trial has been put on hold as an observed side effect of the trial are displaying symptoms of millennia boganned.


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