The Flightradar 24 interesting traffic thread

[African Flyer]

European Cargo A346 had its first flight since February and its compatriot has been here since March

[ddevos]

Looks like this Cherokee swallowed a large rocket, saw ZS-JZS, another Cherokee, doing 260kts as well, with a C172, ZS-KCZ doing 210kts too, all at about the same altitude...

[TGRK]

Looks like this Cherokee swallowed a large rocket, saw ZS-JZS, another Cherokee, doing 260kts as well, with a C172, ZS-KCZ doing 210kts too, all at about the same altitude...

They are MLAT. Barely any coverage in South Afruca as nobody feeds to the tracking site so you'll see all sorts of fake cr@p like this.

[Snitch]

Star Air Cargo ZS-TGG B737-300SF had a pressurization failure out of Cape Town last night and had to return.

[Snitch]

ZS-ZWG is now in Safair colours from Comair/BA after heavy maintenance in Equador.
She did 2 post maintenance flights as N202TS and should ferry back to SA soon

More info :
viewtopic.php?p=2339210#p2339210

[Burner]

ZS-ZWG is now in Safair colours from Comair/BA after heavy maintenance in Equador.
She did 2 post maintenance flights as N202TS and should ferry back to SA soon

More info :
viewtopic.php?p=2339210#p2339210

For those following Steve and Bob aka speedtapefilms, I see they're doing the ferry.

[African Flyer]

Air France back in CPT

[Zimfly]

Qantas A380 ✈ making a comeback

That obviously means there was enough of an increase in demand for seats. But, one has to wonder what the SAA flights' passenger numbers on average per flight look like...

One of my workmates has just been to Aussie to visit family, out 3 weeks ago, return yesterday. Went SAA. Full loads both ways. The crew on the way there indicated to him that they woulld be increasing the frequency soon from 3x to 5x a week as they had "new" aircraft coming.

[Snitch]

ZS-ZWG on her way home to SA as N202TS
Now in Recife Brazil

[Joker11]

Qantas A380 ✈ making a comeback

That obviously means there was enough of an increase in demand for seats. But, one has to wonder what the SAA flights' passenger numbers on average per flight look like...

One of my workmates has just been to Aussie to visit family, out 3 weeks ago, return yesterday. Went SAA. Full loads both ways. The crew on the way there indicated to him that they woulld be increasing the frequency soon from 3x to 5x a week as they had "new" aircraft coming.

Another clapped-out A340-300 with an outdated cabin?

[GLF4]

That obviously means there was enough of an increase in demand for seats. But, one has to wonder what the SAA flights' passenger numbers on average per flight look like...

One of my workmates has just been to Aussie to visit family, out 3 weeks ago, return yesterday. Went SAA. Full loads both ways. The crew on the way there indicated to him that they woulld be increasing the frequency soon from 3x to 5x a week as they had "new" aircraft coming.

Another clapped-out A340-300 with an outdated cabin?

Will obviously be ZS-SXD A343 which had a test flight about a month or two ago.

[ddevos]

ZS-ZWG on her way home to SA as N202TS
Now in Recife Brazil

Somehow something isn't adding up: after seeing that ZS-ZWG is on its way to South Africa, I started watching its progress every now and then. Delta Flight 200 was some distance behind it, both at 41000ft, but even though the 737 was cruising more than 50 knots (ground speed) slower than the A350, the A350 never managed to catch up with the 737 during the four and a half hours that I have been watching them. I assumed that the 737 was flying a lot slower to save fuel on such a long trip. As they moved in over South Africa, the A350 started getting a bit closer, but it still didn't catch up. Why would this be? Both aircraft have been tracked via ADS-B, so I don't get it. The 737 has just touched down at ORT. I hope TGRK can shed some light on this...

[Snitch]

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Somehow something isn't adding up: after seeing that ZS-ZWG is on its way to South Africa, I started watching its progress every now and then. Delta Flight 200 was some distance behind it, both at 41000ft, but even though the 737 was cruising more than 50 knots (ground speed) slower than the A350, the A350 never managed to catch up with the 737 during the four and a half hours that I have been watching them. I assumed that the 737 was flying a lot slower to save fuel on such a long trip. As they moved in over South Africa, the A350 started getting a bit closer, but it still didn't catch up. Why would this be? Both aircraft have been tracked via ADS-B, so I don't get it. The 737 has just touched down at ORT. I hope TGRK can shed some light on this...

Watching on a zoomed out FR24 earth like map blurs your perspective about how far apart aircraft actually are


I zoomed in as much as i could with the 2 still visible on 1 screen while they where over the Atlantic about 4 hours out from JHB and measured with a tape measure the screen distance between them.

I then used this measurement against the scale provided by FR24 to get their approximate distance apart.

I then looked at the ground speed difference and divided the distance apart by the ground speed difference.

This showed it would take about 4,3hours for Delta to catch up with OMD
But there was only 4 hours to go to JHB and even less till speed restrictions kick in , so it would never catch it.

They looked real close when zoomed out, but the earth is huge and the distance was deceptive.
The little aircraft symbols we watch at average zoom levels for cruiseing flights are many many times larger than the aircraft itself

[African Flyer]

New Challenger on the block

[Segg]

New Challenger on the block

Hmmm soon to be based in Russia I assume?