A non story ( or not) over the North East?

[md.]

Seen these myself today but didnt give it a second thought until i seen a facebook post on the subject. Somebody getting a bit over excited or is there a story behind it?
http://tyneandwear.sky.com/news/article/90327/unid...

[speedtwelve]

OK, I'm going to bite. The pic is of two military fast-jets in fighting wing formation. They don't show up on Flightradar 24 due to the type of air-traffic transponder/IFF used on the jets.

I can't believe the article mentioned UFOs. FFS...

[md.]

I did wonder what the significance was with regards UFOs!

[speedtwelve]

You were correct with 'non-story' in your OP. Moron photographs aeroplanes in the sky, journalist morons deem it worthy of a 'news' story filled with uninformed sensationalist bks.

In Sky news tomorrow: bus photographed in Gateshead with incorrect number plate. Alien invasion imminent?

[Eric Mc]

Flight radar 24 omits quite a bit of air traffic. A lot of biz jets don'#t show up on it either - and all those aeroplanes that don't have transponders.

[Simpo Two]

Ah but they have had more hits so can charge more for advertising...

[speedtwelve]

Yes, it only shows aircraft with an ADS-B transponder with encoded GPS data on Flightradar 24, Eric.

[anonymous-user]

speedtwelve said:

Yes, it only shows aircraft with an ADS-B transponder with encoded GPS data on Flightradar 24, Eric.

I don't think that is 100% the case. Even if you have ads-b and enc gps, some aircraft do not show up. You can request to be omitted from things like FR24.

[speedtwelve]

I suppose it would be in certain operators' interest not to be displayed

[SHutchinson]

speedtwelve said:

I suppose it would be in certain operators' interest not to be displayed

You mean aliens, don't you?

[Eric Mc]

Biz jet operators can be very secretive.

[ianrb]

There have been quite a lot of military flights around the North East over the past couple of weeks, and plenty on Monday too. I think I read that there is a major training exercise in progress so I assume the activity is related to that.

Nothing from this planet to get over excited about.

[AlexIT]

Jeez....

I must take care when I fart, not that some "journalist" think I have aliens at home

[LimaDelta]

Eric Mc said:

Biz jet operators can be very secretive.

I may or may not know of some people who fly low level VFR to a different airport before filing an IFR flight plan to take them home, just so it isn't obvious where they are going (or where they've been).

[Engineer1]

Eric Mc said:

Biz jet operators can be very secretive.

I don't blame them the movements of the CEO could be enough to give people the jitters if it varies from the norm too much.

[Boatbuoy]

SKY. said:

"Aircraft from the RAF station at Spadeadam...."

Ah, those'll be the special type that require no airfield facilities then! Sounds like a Dail Mail quote!

[md.]

Haha the 'mystery' continues!
http://tyneandwear.sky.com/news/article/90403/more...

[anonymous-user]

Tomorrows Headline:

"PROOF: People Up North are F**king Stupid!"


:-)

[speedtwelve]

md. said:

Haha the 'mystery' continues!
http://tyneandwear.sky.com/news/article/90403/more...

Oh Jesus Titty-fking Christ! Please tell me the people in that article didn't equate 'contrail moving from bottom of picture to top' with 'climbing vertically'..... And chemtrails..... This has to be a wind-up. The public cannot be as st-all stupid as this.

[markmullen]

speedtwelve said:

And chemtrails..... This has to be a wind-up. The public cannot be as st-all stupid as this.

I post my landscape photos on flickr and had one with some vapour trails visible in an early morning sky.

One chap wrote a long and involved comment on how they were chem trails and we were all at risk.

Needless to say the banhammer was deployed.