A friend who operates a flight radar system in Rayleigh, sent me this earlier.
Anybody have any theories ?
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At 2375Nmiles from Rayleigh, I am currently receiving a radar signal from overhead of Burkina Faso – West Africa
for G-BTPA – an Atlantic Airways ATP aircraft as flight NPT891 from Guernsey to Brussels at 17000’.
1. Either he (or she) has got well lost and will shortly require a refuelling stop somewhere or
2. My radar-ranging has suddenly increased from 300 to 2300NM – with some very unusual atmospheric-conditions at 1.09Ghz or
3. The on-board GPS equipment has gone nuts and is transmitting the very wrong data or
4. The U.S Government/Air Force has decided to scramble the GPS chain of satellites (they do that on an irregular basis in some areas)… or
5. Perhaps the aircraft has been hi-jacked by one of the W.African ship hi-jackers for a change…
Strange…
By: snafu - 16th October 2013 at 19:44
Ah. My missed steak…
By: AlanR - 16th October 2013 at 10:19
His reception from an AirNav RadarBox 2010 , (which I should have mentioned.)
Utilising a 30’ mast-mounted and pre-amped antennae at around 300’ AMSL. Not connected to the Internet.
By: snafu - 15th October 2013 at 23:07
Thats what they want you to think…
If its FlightRadar24…I have frequently found aircraft icons that have stopped moving – not at an airport, several thousand feet up and still indicating airspeed – despite others still travelling on that screen. Also there are always aircraft, say, travelling across the Atlantic Eastbound to LHR with the info giving that it is flying from LHR…
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October 15, 2013 at 10:40 pm