I was looking at Planefiner a moment ago, and stumbled across a Gulfstream 4 with a strange route.
The flight originated in Rome. It got over the UK and then started to follow a weird route. Over the West Wickham area on the map, it came right down to a hight of 2,500ft… and as you can see it then headed off and climbed back up to 20,000+ feet and is continuing to head out west wards. At time of posting, its currently over the Reading area at 30,000ft.
Any ideas why it would dip to that level and then follow such a weird route?
By: Skymonster - 31st March 2011 at 21:35
Could be that the aircraft was originally looking to land at Biggin Hill, but then there was a change of plan and they were heading off to some place else instead…that’s the joy and luxury of travelling in a private jet, you can simply do these things!?
Not that easy… There’s things like flight plans need filing to operate IFR etc. and it’s fairly unlikely London would accept one over the radio especially at busy times. Unlikely it was a divert away from Biggin as the weather was good and I suspect any alternate would not need them to climb to 20000 again.
More likely i think the a/c had some sort of problem and was diverting to Biggin, and then they got the problem sorted before they landed and they decided tiresome their original plan.
Andy
By: cloud_9 - 31st March 2011 at 19:36
Could be that the aircraft was originally looking to land at Biggin Hill, but then there was a change of plan and they were heading off to some place else instead…that’s the joy and luxury of travelling in a private jet, you can simply do these things!?
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March 31, 2011 at 3:31 pm