Air traffic over the Uk

[jools]

Today it's joined by ZZ507 a Shadow R1. Ten days ago there was a RAF A400.

ZZ507 doing the Dover Straits again today.

[PickleB]

ZZ507 doing the Dover Straits again today.

Some pictures...link...but you have to look hard to see the ID. Fortunately the photographer has helped us out.

[jools]

Britten-Norman Defender patrolling the Dover Straits today. https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4009b4

[Kirk280]

Looks like 6-8 Typhoons are having fun at low level near RAF Coningsby....quite off putting when driving along! Can’t see them on the Flightradar24 app though.

[jools]

Looks like 6-8 Typhoons are having fun at low level near RAF Coningsby....quite off putting when driving along! Can’t see them on the Flightradar24 app though.

Flightradar seem to block a lot of military and other sensitive traffic. tar1090.adsbexchange.com should show them.

[PickleB]

Looks like 6-8 Typhoons are having fun at low level near RAF Coningsby....quite off putting when driving along! Can’t see them on the Flightradar24 app though.

This morning there are loads of RAF training aircraft plus a bunch of Hawks that have come across from RAF Valley...https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?lat=...=00.130&zoom=8.

[PickleB]

ZZ507 doing the Dover Straits again today.

This morning it's G-HMGB.

See https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=407843.

Edit Followed by G-TEKV.

[PickleB]

Not sure what's going on, but it seems unusual for a Coast Guard helicopter to be over London (https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=406deb):

[Bravo73]

Not sure what's going on, but it seems unusual for a Coast Guard helicopter to be over London (https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=406deb):

I suspect that they will be going for a jolly through London, on the premise of ‘training’. (The mil do it regularly as well). That route looks like it is following H3.

[PickleB]

I suspect that they will be going for a jolly through London, on the premise of ‘training’. (The mil do it regularly as well). That route looks like it is following H3.

I was wondering about that as I can't see that he's been on the ground anywhere to pick something / someone up. Now they've just landed at King's College Hospital...on the second attempt.

And they're off again. Let's see where they go.

[Bravo73]

S/he’s headed back north to pick up H4 east bound (along the river). This is definitely a training trip/jolly.

If they were on a ‘shout’, they would have a different squawk (not a Heathrow 7033) and they wouldn’t bother to follow the helilanes. They would fly direct.

[PickleB]

S/he’s headed back north to pick up H4 east bound (along the river). This is definitely a training trip/jolly.

If they were on a ‘shout’, they would have a different squawk (not a Heathrow 7033) and they wouldn’t bother to follow the helilanes. They would fly direct.

Yes, it looks like a familiarisation / training flight for a new pilot to me. Long route around looking at the coast on the way out and again on the way back.