i was thinking it might of been an ATP as atlantic airlines land in coventry very near me and at the time an atlantic airlines ATP was taking off from coventry (it was tracked on a sight i use) it would certainly be heading south east over my house if coming from coventry and heading towards london/europe and it’s possible not all of their planes are tracked
also got a picture of a plane that did some circling earlier did a few wide circles around the area then oddly cut the engines or went into idle for a few seconds while flying straight
i do see some odd activities by aircraft by living where i do like a turboprop plane doing an immelman in the dark and a commercial looking plane flying just barely above the trees with all landing lights on :confused: (these were at different days/months they didnt happen last night)
it was last night yes same sort of sound i cant confirm it being a dash 8 due to it being dark but it was a turboprop for sure
any chance of the aircraft transferring to another airport during the night?
heard a turboprop go over heading SE around 2am then again at 2:30am quite fast too and rare to hear a prop aircraft go over past 11pm where i live hard to tell the distance in the dark but could of been 10,000ft judging by the lights on it
it’s a flybe dash 8 i managed to see it on approach to birmingham sounded exactly the same looked exactly the same i could hear it coming for a few miles and got a good look as the weather is clear
as flybe is a sort of shuttle service and operates from birmingham it makes sense to hear it going over roughly each hour heading south just more noticeable as it is a turbo prop
still too big
Not a flybe dash 8 far too big the wings appear flat the engine does not extend over them but is attached to them as if they were part of the wing not too sure on detailed colour from that height it just looks white from what i can see
i know in the UK there are 2 or 3 islanders (called defenders due to being modified for police/armed forces use) owned by police forces (manchester northern ireland and another on the south coast somewhere) though these look much different and from what ive read fly in a circle pattern above the area the other 2 planes suggested are a little too small but the king air 200 would fit
the flaps are most certainly at the top of the tail the rest of what i can make out is it is a large twin turboprop it is white on the underside i cant make out any sort of camera underneath it is quite loud especially for 20,000ft up much louder than any jets on the flightpath
i will try to get a picture though from my house i can only see it for a few seconds as it goes over
possibly they have flown over before and 1 of their 350s “M-SPEC” is tracked on a sight i use so i can see where it goes,
however the plane going over is never tracked. but a sort of shuttle service would make sense. i live on the flight path for birmingham airport but not east midlands airport.