pulse1 Whereabouts are you?

treadigraph, About 8 miles west of Bournemouth Airport

Eclipse 500 2-JSEG took off from Hurn at 12.12 on a test flight

KSWBKCH & treadigraph, Thanks for the prompt and the answer. That is probably what I saw although it did look like a single engine. However it was quite high and climbing rapidly.

Speaking of VLJs, saw a rather odd flashing white light just now north of Woking, turned out to be one of those Cirrus Visionjets... not sure I've seen one before. Not that I've really seen one now. Just on a long final into Kidlington. Er, Oxford-London International Airport...

I see that a 30min flight by Ryanair turned into a nightmare odyssey last night for the passengers and crew, who ended up in France, instead of Ireland. With so many diversions, it makes you wonder why the ops depts of differing airlines didn't just give up any reasonable hope obfcompleting short=haul flights at all ? Rubbish for the passengers, of course, but perhaps better than ending up in lo-co hell somewhere.

I was flying yesterday afternoon and evening. Probably some of the most challenging conditions I’ve encountered in quite a long career. The airlines seemed to hope that if they didn’t talk about the forecast (or make any useful plans) it would be “alright on the night”. It was a mess…..

Thanks for that perspective DH, you have my utmost respect for dealing with days(and nights) such as at the moment in seat 0A.

It's on days like these that airline crews really earn their kopeks! :p

A400 engine sounds #2537. This evening's A400 inbound Brize sounded remarkably like a distant Lancaster; mind you it was competing with the breeze in the trees and a vast flock of parakeets...

Not exactly interestin but on ADSB-Ex saw a pair of R44 oner Chandlers Ford via Southampton and Berkshire from Earls Colne showing 50ft vertical and very little horizontal separation.- now 0ft vertical over Stockbridge - I hope the pilots are very experienced in formation RW flying

Think it was probably the same aircraft with two different i/d sources, one is showing MLAT, the other ADSB. Seen it happening a few times, presume one source is portable kit with the other i/d entered? (No idea how any of this stuff works! :})

"They" have just flown past me, and it was definitely a singleton! The colour scheme matches G-CGNE. So I think you are right, two ADSB/FLARM/Mode-S transmitters onboard, one of which is mis-coded with the i/d of G-OHLI. I too have seen it before more than once, i.e. two aircraft appearing to be in very close formation on e.g. ADSB-X, but which turned out to be a singleton confirmed by Mk1 eyeball.

I did wonder if that was the case, there were also what appeared to be two (different serials) very close AH-64Es out of Middle Wallop at the same time.

Apaches often fly in pairs in tight formation, but unless a Mk1 eyeball is in play, you can never be 100% sure.

Think "one" of the Robbos was showing up as G-PIPE. Thd other i/d had two separate reggies! TriplopHelia...

Edit: ah, just got back on laptop where I'd left the culprits hovering - I see the callsign was Pipe 44! There is a G-PIPE Robbo that blatters around southern England on occasion...

PIPE44 is used by various Robinsons and a Squirrel, but not by G-PIPE, which was a long-defunct Cameron balloon.

Ah, so it was! Looking at pics I've even seen it, it was at Ashton Court when I went in the late 1980s...

Thanks, I would have liked if I could.

Prejudice makes me expect military pilots to have more robust training in close formation flying particularly Apaches as I understand close pairs to be a key tactical mode of operation, it was even given as one reason for the AAC getting a fourth simulator.

However, on their rare visits to my neck of the woods Apaches are usually singletons or occasionally trailing pairs with generous separation.

Same again today G-BYBI also showing as HELI2 one MLAT one ADS-B same altitude but different speeds just before landing at Fairoaks.

I thought I would try and see where TF-FIV 757-200 of Icelandair was as its one I haven't seen. I was surprised to see where it was and what its doing. 26 Jan 2024 Union Glacier Camp (UGL) Punta Arenas (PUQ) FI1088 3:59.

Its been doing this for a few days. It got to Punta Arenas via Europe and South Africa.