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Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:43 amby Q400
Looks like Air New Zealand Link have been upgrading transponders on some aircraft. Have picked up a couple of Dash8 Q300 and a Beech 1900 the last couple of days on FlightRadar24. Looked like test flights with the strange flight numbers and the tracking involved.
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Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:58 amby Ian Warren
This is were I say these transponders should be mandatory and not able to be turned off in the cockpit .... have it connected to circuit , soon as the engine is off the beacon shuts or compressed eloe's , makes good cents .. today everyone tracks aircraft, so when something gos awry , someone would have eyes on it .
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Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:45 amby HamiltonWest
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Sun Jun 01, 2014 11:22 amby Ian Warren
It is good to see the increase, funny one outfit I did work for 2005/6 new I was into this sort of thing back then it was a an independent box that sat beside your PC and on outrageous cost , the more you put in the sky the more interesting it will get and in a few year don't the road it will interact with your home simulator along the same lines as your real world weather.
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Sun Jun 01, 2014 5:22 pmby SA227
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This is were I say these transponders should be mandatory and not able to be turned off in the cockpit .[/quote]
Then how am I suppose to sneak around in the dead of night?
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Sun Jun 01, 2014 5:28 pmby omitchell
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Sun Jun 01, 2014 5:30 pmby Ian Warren
SA227 wrote:Then how am I suppose to sneak around in the dead of night?
Sneak around in your Friendship ... we have all these complainers tracking you anyway .. 'ear' you over hear ..
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:24 pmby HamiltonWest
NZ7001 showing on MLAT this Morning.
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Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:44 pmby Ian Warren
Whats the old saying .. I don't hear you ! .. is that a regular thing "no callsign"
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Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:00 pmby HamiltonWest
HamiltonWest wrote:NZ7001 showing on MLAT this Morning.
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Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:11 pmby Peppermint
Seems to be alot of the Dash-8s and 1900Ds are showing up on FR now, should make planning a trip to the airport easier. Apparently the RNZAF 757 was on there for a while this morning aswell?
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Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:19 pmby Ian Warren
It all good news for us plane spotters then , I say the best thing is to fill the sky's , It is great early winter morn and able to track a flight incoming as the vapour trail builds, mentioned this last year when I was out on my bro's place out at West Melton for his birthday .... biggest chuckle was the trail created two people thought they were Rockets and space craft heading into space or in orbit
.. That's True !
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Fri Jun 20, 2014 4:20 pmby Splitpin
Ham did you notice on flightradar24 early afternoon x3 plots called HBALL up at 60,000+ , are these the weather balloons Doug spotted a while back ?
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Fri Jun 20, 2014 4:56 pmby dbcunnz
Splitpin wrote:Ham did you notice on flightradar24 early afternoon x3 plots called HBALL up at 60,000+ , are these the weather balloons Doug spotted a while back ?
No they are new ones there have been 5 or 6 released from Tekapo today and have tracked up over Christchurch and then headed out to wards the Chatham Islands
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Fri Jun 20, 2014 6:18 pmby Splitpin
dbcunnz wrote:No they are new ones there have been 5 or 6 released from Tekapo today and have tracked up over Christchurch and then headed out to wards the Chatham Islands
Cheers Doug , looking back at the track , they first pop (excuse the term) down in the basin.
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Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:13 amby HamiltonWest
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Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:53 amby omitchell
HamiltonWest wrote:Next one will be "Swamp Gas"....
