john roe

Mar 2nd.

 

Air Austral, Fl REU 772, Crossed overhead of YPPH ).

 

Altitude Fl 355 ( 35500 Ft ), Speed "0" Kts, Tracking at "0" Est 280 degrees.

 

Boeing B772, ( B777-2Q8ER ), Reg F-OPAR. Time 1536 Hrs.

 

( Noumea to Paris via Sydney and Reunion Island ).

 

 

 

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John, this is a RAAF King Air.We are in the process of trying to sort them out.

Heres a leed....http://www.defence.gov.au/media/download/2010/Feb/20100225b/index.htm

 

 

Manages to get a few this week with SBS-1 and plane plotter at same time, slow process.

 

 

Any one help on this AC tracking into YPPH at 1430, Call sign DNGO42, no rego or AC data, hex 7CF86F, Thankyou

 

Edit, Now decending towards Pearce AFB, must be RAAF, any further info Please..

 

ALSO, any one have a Hex Code list of Civil or/and Military past 7C8*** .Please.

 

 

March 1st.

 

Air Austral, Fl REU 771, Crossed overhead of YPPH ).

 

Altitude Fl 370 ( 37000 Ft), Speed 451Kts, Tracking at 96.0 degrees.

 

Boeing B772 ( B777-2Q8ER ), Reg F- OPAR. Time 10570 Hrs.

 

( Paris to Noumea via Reunion Island and Sydney ).

 

(Clearly visual with good contrails )

 

( Normally this AC does not display full ADSL, PP is displaying occasional inacurate Speed and Degrees)

 

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Sat 27th.

 

Etihad, ETD Fl 460 , Crossed overhead of YPPH ).

 

Altitude Fl 390 ( 39000 Ft) Speed 489 Kts,Tracking at 101.3 degrees.

 

Airbus A 345, ( A340-541 ), Reg A6- EHB. Time 1246 Hrs.

 

( Abu-Dhabi to Melbourne. AUH-MEL ).

 

(Excelent contail up to 5 NM long, very visable and audible )

 

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Air Austral, Fl REU 772, Crossed south of Pearce AFB, ( 13.0 NM north of YPPH ).

 

Altitude Fl 340 ( 34000 Ft ), Speed "0" Kts, Tracking at "0" Est 312 degrees.

 

Boeing B772, ( B777-2Q8ER ), Reg F- OPAR. Time 1434 Hrs.

 

( Noumea to Paris via Sydney and Reunion Island ).

 

 

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RADAR BACK ON AIR

 

Fri 26th Feb.

 

Air Austral, Fl REU 771, Crossed overhead of YPPH ).

 

Altitude Fl 390 ( 39000 Ft), Speed "0" Kts, Tracking at "0" Aprox 96.0 degrees.

 

Boeing B772 ( B777-2Q8ER ), Reg F- OPAR . Time 0200 Hrs.

 

( Paris to Noumea via Reunion Island and Sydney ).

 

 

 

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ok thanks got it now, whewwwwwwwwww

 

 

Thankyou every one for your help, the link will not open ? http://www.airservices.gov.au/public...1-Mar-2010.pdf

 

 

Is there an list of Airport Abbreviations for the World , particually Oz, I have one, but you have to know where it is, great help that is. trying to find where YPEA is ??

 

 

Wishing to re establish contact with Ron Fisher of Perth, Kindly call me on 9276 6287 please, Thankyou.

 

 

All I can say to the Endevour landing is that it was at ext book landing at nearly 300 NM per hour, twice the speed of a commercial airliner, and sadly the Endevour will fly one more mission this year with Discovery before the entire remaining fleet of 3 shuttles will be taken out of service this end of 2010, thanks to president Bush who ordered them to be scrapped, a pity in my books, the Space Station now weights over 400 tonns in space and little more to be done with spare parts to go up there, sadly we witnessed 2 fatal accidents, i witnessed after seeing Columbus fly over Perth city to track it on live Nasa TV to wittness its final destiny of destruction in flight over San Francisco due to a peice of its wing leeding edge sheild missing to see it destroy in the earths crust at 60 miles high on live TV animation, such a tradegy for the crew who were never told by Mission Control who knew, that they would not come home, they could not be rescued ,, Columbus crew R.I.P. ......As I have a college at Nasa in Florida, I get to see and receive data and pics etc that many would noy legally, and have been deeply engrossed in the space exploration for may years watching many hundreds of live TV hours of the Shuttles and Space station, good luck tothe 6 person crew now up in the Internatiol Space Station, for those who wish to view its passes over your city, visit the Nasa Tracking site http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/ and the Nasa Shedule sightings times. (Select your City ) http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=Australia&region=Western_Australia&city=Perth

 

 

Endevour now 10 mins to touch down. listen for the sonic booms as it breaks the sound bvarrier 2 times in 1/10 of a second for runway 15. Glen you can delete it al after the landing, past history.

 

 

Endevour has well and truelly started decent and short while ago passed over Esperance in WA, traveling at 27000 KPH, and now passing south of Tasmania, and just about to pass south of NZ, 23 mins to the crew experiencing the first tugs of the earths gravity for now landing at 1120 Perth Time. have your volumn up for listening to the Nasa commentry and the Shuttle breaking the sound barrier 2 times in 1/10 of a second.

 

 

Space Shuttle, Perth WA, we are 13 hrs ahead of USA time Florida, the shuttle can be viewed on Live Nasa TV now, at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html this morning and landing will be at 1140 am Perth Time, 1440 EST Oz, de-orbit will be one hour prior to the landing time, this present orbit, not visable from Perth in daylight will cross over WA at North of Carnarvon to Esperance.it is the last full orbit.

 

at this time 0947, the de-orbit burn is less than 30 mins away, normally done over the Equator below India and the decent as descrobed will be over WA will take approx one hour, can also be tracked on Nasa TV in animation until the long range Nasa Cameras pick up the Shuttle at 60 Miles high with infraed, listen for the Twin Sonic booms of breaking the sound barrier over Florida minutes befor live landing..

 

The Capcom in Mission control has just given the Shuttle Comander the GO for the Shuttle De-orbit burn, Just a note of interest "Greg" the prior obit over Perth last night was visable for 3 mins at 1936. De-orbit has now commenced at 1014, those watching will be able to see the steering rockets fired.

 

 

Wed 17th.

 

Etihad, ETD Fl 460 , Crossed from over north of Jurien Bay,

 

to NE of YPPH over lake Lefroy).

 

Altitude Fl 370 ( 37000 Ft) Speed ** Kts,Tracking at 104 degrees. now 92 Deg.

 

Airbus A 345, ( A340-541 ), Reg A6-EHC . Time 1327 Hrs.

 

( Abu-Dhabi to Melbourne ).

 

(Tracked on Plane Plotter )

 

 

At YPPH, runway 21 / 03 has been closed from 0700 - 1900 M - F due to re surfacing, over the past 2 weeks, in a post in another forum quoted that due to this on Wed, 13 AC were lined up waiting take off on 24 / 06 at 0700 hrs, but held while a QFA B333 landed, no room left for a parralell runway now to 21 / 03 as WAC sold off all the land south of the INT, rediculas.

 

 

Sat 13th

 

Air Austral tracked on Plane Plotter Fl 772 over YPPH at 1452 at 36000 ft, no speed, no direction Reg was F-OPAR, a Boeing 77B 777. Noumea via Sydney - Reunion Island to Paris.

 

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well she made it safely to orbit. there will be only 4 more shuttle launches now before the fleet is retired, and the US will then have no means of transporting humans into space for the forseeable future ( other than as paying pax on Russian Soyuz). Who would have thought that when we watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon 40 years ago. It will be a sad day indeed when the last shuttle flight lands at Kennedy space center late next year.

Spot on there Terry, its going to be a very sad moment when the last shuttle lands indeed, my opinion is it was a great aircraft, as my college who works there at Nasa, says its the greatest flying brick with 2 feathers on it. I have almost watched live every launch and landing including dockings and undockings, my favorite being the tumble roll over for the ISS crew to photo the underside of the Shuttle , when speeded up looks like a hoon doing a donut, the first commander to do the roll over was a woman who stated, "what any man can do, i can do better", it was great to see, as for Nasa, they have build the next craft to service the ISS Station and it has been used 2 times foe fuel and suplys, it will and has yet to carry any crew, as like stated by you, USA have paid the Russians to ferry fuel, stores and crew to the ISS, now with the fiancial downfall, the USA President has axed the planned flights to the moon and any other missions.

 

This is the last scheduled Shuttle to fly to the ISS, landing date yet to be advised. possibly on the 29th Sept...

 

Date: Sept. 16 +

 

Mission: STS-133

 

Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery

 

Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A

 

Launch Time: 11:57 a.m. EDT

 

STS-133 Description: Space shuttle Discovery will deliver the Express Logistics Carrier 4 (ELC4), a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MLPM) and critical spare components to the International Space Station.

 

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this post has ended up in the google web searches, with no results.

 

 

For those who may be interested, the Shuttle Endevour was scrubed last night due to bad weather Australian time, and it appears at 1335 Perth time a GO for launch this afternoon at 1614 Perth, Time plus 3 hrs for East Coast of Oz.

 

Launch TV schedule is http://www.nasa.gov/tvschedule/pdf/tvsked_reva.pdf

 

watch live on Nasa TV. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html ,

 

select other options and Window media player large screen.

 

The crew are being loaded in at this time 1340 Perth Time on launch pad 39a.

 

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Mon 8th Feb...

 

Hi ALL ,,

 

I HAVE A RADAR FAILURE, ( The Flywheel fell off the Boiler ) it has to be sent back to Kinitec in Victoria for brief testing, and possibly be sent to the UK for repairs or replacement as its under warrenty, so could be no reporting of High Flyer AC for some weeks, My appolgies to all interested trackers

 

John...

 

 

Sun:

 

Emirates UAE Fl 414, Crossed south of Dongara,

 

( 123.7 NM north of YPPH ).

 

Altitude Fl 370 ( 37000 Ft) Speed 555 Kts, Tracking at 92.2 degrees.

 

Boeing 77L, ( B777- 2DZLR ), Reg A6-EWB. Time 1518 Hrs.

 

(Dubai to Sydney ).

 

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Etihad, ETD Fl 461, Crossed just south of Jurien Bay,

 

( 85.2 NM north of YPPH ).

 

Altitude Fl 340 (34000 Ft) Speed 422 Kts,Tracking at 283.6 degrees.

 

Airbus A 345, ( A340-541 ), Reg A6-EHC. Time 2332 Hrs.

 

( Melbourne to Abu-Dhabi ).

 

 

 

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Sat.

 

Qatar, Fl QT 031, Crossed east of Geraldton,

 

( 218.6 NM north of YPPH ).

 

Altitude Fl 320 ( 32000 Ft), Speed 454.4 Kts,

 

Tracking at 279.5 degrees.

 

Boeing B77L ( B777- 2DZLR ), Reg A7- BBB. Time 0018 Hrs.

 

( Melbourne to Doha ).

 

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Air Austral, Fl REU 772, Crossed over Lancelin,

 

( 22.4 NM north of YPPH ).

 

Altitude Fl 360 ( 36000 Ft ), Speed 407.4 Kts, Tracking at 296.4 degrees.

 

Boeing B772, ( B777-2Q8ER ), Reg F- OMAY. Time 1513 Hrs.

 

( Noumea to Paris via Sydney and Reunion Island ).

 

 

 

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Perth main Runway 21/03 has had re-surfacing during this past week, all AC have had to use R24/06 during 0700 - 1900 , would have loved to see a A346 take off on 24 (7500 ft) long