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[malagabob]

can anyone explain. I identified a aircraft as Easyjet flight EZY 218 flying from Glasgow to Stanstead but the flight path showed it going over the English channel and entering Normandy then carrying on Southward. Stansteads flight arrivals didnt show any arrivals around that time from Glasgow.

[malagabob]

Subject should have been Planefinder

[theshedman]

Hi, have you tried using this link for finding flight routes. Even this ones not completely accurate though.

http://www.flightradar24.com/

[Prudie]

I have noticed similar anomalies on flightradar24 - the highlighted route is sometimes clearly not where the data says it's going. I've also noticed that Flybe planes are never shown even though they use a local airport all day.

[237SJ]

None of those websites are completely accurate. They`re not exact.

[theshedman]

Hi, I use that one too Prudie and it does say on there quote; Flightradar24 can only show information about aircraft equipped with an ADS-B transponder. Today about 60% (about 30% in USA and about 70% in Europe) of the passenger aircraft and only a small amount of military and private aircraft have an ADS-B transponder. So maybe Flybe don't use it. I am the same I have often looked for flights on there coming in to Exeter airport but don't usually find them.

[Prudie]

Thanks theshedman, I'd not noticed that. I love looking at the site as I'd always wondered where the high planes passing over me were going. As I'm Dorchester the westward ones probably come over you too! I know Southampton has Flybe (mainly domestic) traffic all day but I never see one on that site. It must be as you said.

[theshedman]

Hi Prudie, I sit in the garden and look at them all going over wishing I was on one of them but still got to wait until next year until it happens. Most weeks during the summer the flight I will be on next year flies right over my house. Think they do it just to wind me up Lol.

[Prudie]

OMG I do just the same. We actually flew on our summer holiday from Exeter this year for the first time (as Palmair from B'mth is down the tubes) - it was just as quaint and hassle free and we'll do it again next year.

[Buenchico]

If it was today, EZY218 accessed the runway at Glasgow Airport, ready for take-off, at 1405. It touched down at Stansted at 1504. The flight was operated by G-EZAM, which is an A319. Its previous flight was from Stansted to Gatwick, with the onbound flight from Stansted going to Ljubljana as EZY4JU, with a scheduled departure time of 1540.

[Buenchico]

Gatwick? I meant Glasgow!
(I must learn not to post when I'm sober!)
;-)