Flightradar24 Interesting Finds

[MossRoad]

I think they got up to almost 400' when they went over I-5 , they seemed much closer when they flew over the ridge where we live.

We get that a lot, living near the airport.

What we also get about 6 times a year is a military fly over for Notre Dame football games. It's pretty fun. They usually come in the day before the game, buzz the campus a few times to practice their run, then buzz the airport at high speed low flight, make a huge sweeping turn, come back around, then land. On game day, they take off about an hour before the game, then head south of town and fly around until their person at the stadium tells them to come in. They have to adjust their speeds up and down to try and time it perfectly with the conclusion of the National Anthem. They're usually within seconds. Pretty good.

Then they come back, buzz the airport again and land, then go see the game. They almost always stay overnight, so Sunday they take off, buzz the airport yet again, and leave.

Depending on the winds, they either fly right over our house low and loud, or they turn the other way and their engines are facing our house, so loud again.

Anyhow, it shakes the house, the cats run for the basement, and I run outside and enjoy the sights and sounds.

Sometimes I'll head over to the airport and watch them as well. It's a local pastime.

And no, they never show up on the flight radar. You can hear them talking to air traffic control on the scanner, though.

 

[cqaigy2]

We get that a lot, living near the airport.

What we also get about 6 times a year is a military fly over for Notre Dame football games. It's pretty fun. They usually come in the day before the game, buzz the campus a few times to practice their run, then buzz the airport at high speed low flight, make a huge sweeping turn, come back around, then land. On game day, they take off about an hour before the game, then head south of town and fly around until their person at the stadium tells them to come in. They have to adjust their speeds up and down to try and time it perfectly with the conclusion of the National Anthem. They're usually within seconds. Pretty good.

Then they come back, buzz the airport again and land, then go see the game. They almost always stay overnight, so Sunday they take off, buzz the airport yet again, and leave.

Depending on the winds, they either fly right over our house low and loud, or they turn the other way and their engines are facing our house, so loud again.

Anyhow, it shakes the house, the cats run for the basement, and I run outside and enjoy the sights and sounds.

Sometimes I'll head over to the airport and watch them as well. It's a local pastime.

And no, they never show up on the flight radar. You can hear them talking to air traffic control on the scanner, though.

I'd probably run outside to see that too.

I think i mentioned, one of my co-workers came home one evening and their covered patio was blown up. Neighbor said one of the military jets doing an airshow at the airport had buzzed out to the prairie and turned the jet straight up, right over his house. I thought it was pretty funny, co-worker, not so much. Pieces of fiberglass all over the yard.

 

[MossRoad]

YIKES!

 

[MossRoad]

I had a Cessna 150 or 152 come low over my yard one day. He had to pull up to miss the trees. I gave the guy in the right seat the finger. He gave it back. I reported that one to the local FAA office.

When I worked at the airport, several times I'd fuel up a plane, and note that I put more fuel in it than its total capacity!

Hey! Don't fly over my house!

 

[BigBlue1]

Been a few of these flying over.


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I'm glad you caught that and posted. Some time back I posted about seeing several Blackhawks visible in my state one evening and everyone told me "no, you're wrong, you'll never see them on Flightradar".

 

[JethroB]

I mentioned once that A-10’s from Moody AFB train overhead here often. Sometimes they go over low & slow such that I can make out the pilots head. I wasn’t sure how low until I was playing with my new drone recently. Oh my! They are at best 200 up. I have yet to see them on FlightAware.
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[JethroB]

I'm glad you caught that and posted. Some time back I posted about seeing several Blackhawks visible in my state one evening and everyone told me "no, you're wrong, you'll never see them on Flightradar".

Look at Flightradar over southeastern Alabama. Lots of army helicopters show up around Ft Rucker.

I found this tip helpful:

Best is to use ADS-B exchange first and filter on DB flag: Military. Than you'll see all military planes which are broadcasting ADS-B. If you see something interesting you can than search for it in F24. By using filtering on aircraft type or callsigns you will miss a lot. Some interesting callsigns: RRR, LAGR, QID, REDEYE8 (pops up during air-to-air refuelling), STGR, BAF, UAV, RFR

 

[MossRoad]

I'm glad you caught that and posted. Some time back I posted about seeing several Blackhawks visible in my state one evening and everyone told me "no, you're wrong, you'll never see them on Flightradar".

I think it depends on what they're doing and who's flying it. Sometimes I see KC-135 tankers on there, and sometimes I see them overhead and they don't show up.

 

[MossRoad]

I mentioned once that A-10’s from Moody AFB train overhead here often. Sometimes they go over low & slow such that I can make out the pilots head. I wasn’t sure how low until I was playing with my new drone recently. Oh my! They are at best 200 up. I have yet to see them on FlightAware.
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Next time you see one, stick your arms out and waggle your wings. If they see you and aren't focused on some other task, they might waggle back at you.

We used to get a kick out of doing that to small aircraft when we were kids.

 

[RobertN]

I think it depends on what they're doing and who's flying it. Sometimes I see KC-135 tankers on there, and sometimes I see them overhead and they don't show up.

I see them with "funny" names; tankers, C17, C5's. Orca#, Heavy# and similar (# for number).

Right now there's fighter trainers in the area; ONYX11, ROPER11, Roper12, Roper13 all flying out of Beale AFB. Roper11 is buzzing SMF right now.

I see a lot of those flights, with Beale, Fallon and Travis active. See a number of flights, live overhead or on flight radar coming out of Fallon and going in to old Mather AFB; it still sees some military use.

Being in the Sacramento area, used to see even more flights when Mather and McClellan AFB were active. Used to see an occasional MITO scramble out of the from SAC base at Mather. Seeing Nuke armed B52's scramble along with Tankers was a real sight to see!