Flightradar24 oddity
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Hoping someone has an answer:
Flightradar24 occasionally resets itself to a map of Scandinavia instead of remembering the map location when it was last shut down, and also resets to kms instead of miles. There seems to be no obvious cause!
I hope this is the most appropriate forum for the question, and thanks in advance.
Flightradar24 occasionally resets itself to a map of Scandinavia instead of remembering the map location when it was last shut down, and also resets to kms instead of miles. There seems to be no obvious cause!
I hope this is the most appropriate forum for the question, and thanks in advance.
FR24 has been very random for me the last year, I think it was when they started tightening their usage to encourage users to pay up for the full version (a not unreasonable wish). My map sets itself up at several different locations as and when it chooses and I've always put this down to where the main node for the system is, or thinks the user is. Sometimes it's just for a short while, other times several days.
A while back they started masking many private flights or switching off tracking when under a certain height to obsfucate the departure/arrival point. I wonder was this in response to legal action from some disgruntled flyer who wasn't aware their aircraft was eminently traceable by such internet apps ?
Btw, I've just checked today and FR24 has me centred on the Pennines in the UK, whereas yesterday it was southern Sweden.
A while back they started masking many private flights or switching off tracking when under a certain height to obsfucate the departure/arrival point. I wonder was this in response to legal action from some disgruntled flyer who wasn't aware their aircraft was eminently traceable by such internet apps ?
Btw, I've just checked today and FR24 has me centred on the Pennines in the UK, whereas yesterday it was southern Sweden.
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When I switch FR24 on it will open at the last location I had it at when switching off. That has always been the standard with me since I've been using it.
Many private (executive) flights are "masked" at the request of the operator for reasons of privacy and/or security. The disappearance of labels close to airports can sometimes be due to the coverage or settings by the provider. Remember that FR24 relies on subscribers feeding them with their SBS data. Those subscribers can differ in their own personal settings and this will be reflected in what you see.
A while back they started masking many private flights or switching off tracking when under a certain height to obsfucate the departure/arrival point.
Those subscribers can differ in their own personal settings and this will be reflected in what you see.
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My map is re-centred to Scandinavia every so often, too. I don't know why. It's usually centred on & used for the C.I. area by me.
Although FR24 mask the majority of "private flights" many of these are displayed in full by Planefinder.
Although FR24 mask the majority of "private flights" many of these are displayed in full by Planefinder.
If I had my own private jet, though strangely not light aircraft , I'd not be too happy to have my movements over the globe openly tracked, but as an enthusiastic looker at things in the sky, I find such Apps entertaining and informative.
Up until the last year it was truly amazing the level of detail that was given, excluding military and blocked flights, but these days the type is given and mostly the exact start and finish points missing (although it's possible to guesstimate where), whereas others are tracked every metre of the way, including taxiing around the apron, airport etc. It's very random/hit and miss for whatever reasons. I've also noted that helicopters are showing up far more frequently, but again in certain areas only and only for a certain time/distance of the entire flight ? Why show up at all ?
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Up until the last year it was truly amazing the level of detail that was given, excluding military and blocked flights, but these days the type is given and mostly the exact start and finish points missing (although it's possible to guesstimate where), whereas others are tracked every metre of the way, including taxiing around the apron, airport etc. It's very random/hit and miss for whatever reasons. I've also noted that helicopters are showing up far more frequently, but again in certain areas only and only for a certain time/distance of the entire flight ? Why show up at all ?
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A typical (for me) situation, a droning heard overhead (not me) and FR24 indicated it was an AN26, a somewhat rare visitor to the UK, and I followed it's unusual flight path that suddenly cut out at 3000ft descending in the direction of North Weald airfield, which can't have many such visitors. It had originated somewhere in the northern third of Italy, but had started it's track at several thousand feet. Either that or it did a rough field landing somewhere in Essex
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Heard that AN26 droning over while I was walking home about 40 mins ago SHJ - looks like it was heading into Stansted.
Heard that AN26 droning over while I was walking home about 40 mins ago SHJ - looks like it was heading into Stansted.
Then again, you could simply cough up the €2.00 per month for Premium if you really want the full works. It's not exactly a fortune is it.
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It was a RAF-Avia steed if that helps ? There are those DC-6's that are based/land there, so it's not out of the ball park.
The "based DC-6s" there are actually a C-54 and DC-4 pair, and are only "based" in the sense that they have been sadly rotting away there for the last 12 years and seem unlikely ever to fly again.
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It was a RAF-Avia steed
DC-6s landing at North Weald? Pray enlighten us, sir.
That's the chap, following one of the standard routings for Luton/Stansted/Cambridge - over the coast at Eastbourne heading NNW, turn over London NNE towards Barkway (?), then routing as appropriate - in this case downwind for 05 at Stansted - he disappeared on base leg.
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SHJ, take a look at FR24 when Stansted is using 05 - you'll occasionally see aircraft approaching from the south via Eastbourne or Selsey route across London at about 16000' and then descend towards Royston (Barkway?), turn right through 180deg towards Hoddesden, then left and left again on to base leg and final approach. Ryanair and easyJet are regular users of the route.
Presumably the dog leg is to fit in the necessary descent while keeping clear of Heathrow traffic.
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Presumably the dog leg is to fit in the necessary descent while keeping clear of Heathrow traffic.
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