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Nostromo
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Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by Nostromo » Sat Oct 15, 2016 1:48 pm

I can hear a jet flying very high, Although is a perfect day I cant see it. Its going up and down the coast around Warton to Blackpool for an hour now. Probably a Eurofighter.

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Re: Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by Mike » Sat Oct 15, 2016 1:51 pm

It's on FR24, call-sign is WTN69.
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Nostromo
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Re: Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by Nostromo » Sat Oct 15, 2016 2:04 pm

Well it was a Grey Eurofighter with weapons onboard, Its just landed now at BAE Warton. Saturday Flights getting more frequent now. I'm to far away from getting a plain number.

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Re: Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by Nostromo » Sat Oct 15, 2016 2:05 pm

Mike wrote:It's on FR24, call-sign is WTN69.
O thanks, I'm not sure what you're numbers mean sorry.

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Re: Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by Rory76 » Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:35 am

FR24 is flightRadar 24- one of the virtual radar sites that are really handy for identifying planes. Personally I prefer to use ADSB Exchange as it catches a lot more of the military stuff, at least in the non-subscription form. Planeplotter is another one.

Recommend checking them out.

WTN69 would be the abbreviated callsign the plane was using- presumably Warton69 in full.

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Re: Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by powerslave » Tue Oct 18, 2016 12:39 am

Rory76 wrote:FR24 is flightRadar 24- one of the virtual radar sites that are really handy for identifying planes. Personally I prefer to use ADSB Exchange as it catches a lot more of the military stuff, at least in the non-subscription form. Planeplotter is another one.

Recommend checking them out.

WTN69 would be the abbreviated callsign the plane was using- presumably Warton69 in full.
Your right in saying ADSB catches more military traffic,but Tarnish 69 on Saturday was'nt showing up on adsb,but was showing up on FR24 for some reason.

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Re: Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by Rory76 » Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:21 am

Interesting- I'll pull up FR24 if I can't find things on ADSB Exchange!

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Re: Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by POL » Tue Oct 18, 2016 10:16 am

Rory76 wrote:WTN69 would be the abbreviated callsign the plane was using- presumably Warton69 in full.
'Tarnish 69'

It was showing on 360Radar also :)

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Re: Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by Rory76 » Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:06 pm

Well half what I said was accurate anyway. Lol

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Re: Jet patrolling north west coastal sky's Now

Post by SteveHall » Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:24 am

It was ZK303 Typhoon, visually conformed by myself when it landed at Warton, it has a miscoded transponder giving out "BC614E" which until now was a mystery.

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