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I should have reported on the Luxair link to Dakar here instead of in Trivia. Here is more concerning Dakar. Last week SmartWings inaugurated their flight from Bratislava. Will be weekly on Saturdays, with a B738. Smartwings at GOBD 20220409.jpg Also announced as from May 2022 is AlbaStar with a twi...

Yesterday 13APR Dakar welcomed a first Luxair flight from LUX.
There should be a few charter flights until the winter season when Luxair will have up to 3 scheduled flights a week.

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Guys, why are you twisting my words like that? Just read what I wrote. I never said that the R/T rules, i.e. with ATC, apply de jure to the cabin comms. But it does apply de facto because the flight crew shall not use the word “take-off” before the readback to the corresponding clearance. Just tell ...

Unfortunately it is still not uncommon to hear the "Cabin crew take off in 2 minutes" :cry: H.A. What has communication between cabin crew and pilots to do with RT phraseology? Luckily it’s April fools’ day, so you can pretend it was just a joke. The R/T phraseology rules are in place to ...

This was SN369 that left Yaounde for BRU yesterday evening around 2100UTC. About 2 hours in the flight, while at FL400, they went into a 360 and descended to FL380 to land at TMR one hour later around midnight UTC. SN369 20220330.png Lengthy stay on the ground of about 5 hours per FR24 before headin...

45 years ago, on 27 March 1977, the worst ever aviation accident occurred at Tenerife Los Rodeos (now Tenerife North, TFN/GCXO). A KLM B742 took off without clearance and rammed a Pan Am B741 that was still backtracking on the RWY. All 248 on board the KLM perished while 335 died in the Pan Am where...

AF1 with a C-32 in trail at 1900 UTC.

One hour before a Boeing E-4B Command Post landed at Mildenhall.

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We will always remember.


And one more time thank you Gregory for your message at 06h22 that day to postpone our meeting till 10h30.
Having a coffee at the Starbucks that morning would have been a bad idea.

H.A.

Agreed Dibo, MLAT has its limitations. There was a tongue-in-cheek in my reference to the reliability of the data.
I stumbled on it when I saw this bird near Waremme at 1300ft 300fpm ROD and 474kt. That would have attracted some attention and be in the press by now.

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Just saw a BAF F-16 flying at rather low level during return to KeeBee.

If the data from globe.adsbexchange.com are correct, it's 1000ft and 454kts.


Tiger Tiger Tiger !


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(post transferred from a wrong topic to the right one) Rossiya flight from Moscow just landed at Sofia, avoiding Ukrainian airspace but overflying Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. 20220303T0840.png It operated using the same flight number as the daily SVO-SOF, though the last flight was on 25...

Thanks KriVa, I appreciate your detailed interesting answer. Reminds me of Luchtzak.be when this type of exchange was the standard. ;) You are perfectly right about the tankers mission profiles. Years ago I was in contact with some crew of the 100ARW at Mildenhall and they said it can be anything fr...

Twelve (12) F-35A from the 34th FS were already operating from Spangdahlem, Germany where they had arrived on 16FEB from Hill AFB, Utah. Some sources report that 6 of them deployed further East yesterday 27FEB, two to each of the following bases : - Ämari, Estonia (where the 4 Belgian F-16 are alrea...

There are unfortunately more important losses in Ukraine at the moment but the loss of the unique An-225 will be long remembered. https://www.aviation24.be/manufacturers/antonov/an-225-mriya/the-antonov-an-225-mriya-destroyed-by-n-fire-in-its-hangar-in-ukraine/ I remember seeing her in Iran some 10 ...

AF117.gif Back to the old days. H.A. Right, when a BRU-Tokyo via Anchorage in the summer was a day flight all along. And you were being served lunch non-stop as it was about noon during the whole flight. :D And wasn't the Sabena crew based in ANC on TDY for one month? memories, memories. H.A.

While FIRs in the West request to remain 200nm clear of UA airspace, it seems the Russians impose to stay 500nm off the easternmost border of Ukraine.

This Pobeda from IST to Moscow spotted on Friday 25FEB.

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An Air France Triple 7 is flying from Seoul to Vancouver at the moment, with a 4-digit number which, is rarely used on long-haul flights. https://www.flightradar24.com/AFR6700/2af50614 I don't know if it's linked to the fact that the airline no longer wants to fly over Russia and therefore goes thr...

Why would you publish the position of an f35 on fr24 ? I find it so weird Public relations? "Hello, I'm here. And I'm the only one squawking in our flight" ;) F-35 not shy.png I've seen this 13-5067 earlier this morning, supposedly from Bitburg according to FR24 but more probably from Spa...

The more you look the more tankers you see. There is a Royal Netherlands AF MRTT south of Bydgoszcz, with an RAF 3000 ft below, MRTT as well. RNLAF MRTT.png Another RAF MRTT took off from Akrotiri and is now on station near Constanza. A USAF F-16 departed Aviano and had not strangled its parrot befo...

Lots of tankers still on duty close to the western border of Ukraine. Enough to quench the thirst of many fast jets over there. Night Tankers.png NCHO131 (Nacho = KC-10) is returning to Mildenhall, currently over what used to be the no-go limit at the East German border before NATO decided to provid...