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Post by Jim on May 20, 2020 13:08:20 GMT
Flight radar, just discovered also tracks gliders. Telemachus tell us when you are up and about and we can track you. I saw a few from Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club around their base. Lovely day for a flight. |
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Post by Telemachus on May 20, 2020 15:28:59 GMT
Flight radar, just discovered also tracks gliders. Telemachus tell us when you are up and about and we can track you. I saw a few from Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club around their base. Lovely day for a flight. Yes thank you for rubbing it in! We are still not allowed out in Scotland thanks to the fascist bitch queen Sturgeon. And some great gliding weather coming up in the next couple of days. Grrrr. Many gliders are equipped with a collision avoidance system called FLARM which transmits one’s position on a low power radio signal, meanwhile receiving the position of any other equipped aircraft in the vicinity. There is quite a clever collision warning algorithm which works not on proximity (because gliders often fly close to each other anyway) but on the aircrafts’ trajectories (colliding trajectory, or not). A spin off from that is there is an amateur network of ground based receivers (raspberry Pi computer and a USB SDR tv stick with sensitive aerial) that receives any such signals in range and sends them to a central server in a Europe somewhere. We’ve got one at our club. The data is collated and can be viewed on a couple of dedicated websites like live.glidernet.org. There is also a feed to the likes of FlightRadar 24, as you say. |
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Post by Jim on May 20, 2020 17:02:12 GMT
Eh? Irrelevant twaddle naughtyfox. You've strayed from the infants yard. This is the big boys playground. Go away, annoying child. |
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Post by mouse on May 21, 2020 9:52:11 GMT
Interesting that the ram air turbine (little propellery jobbie between the main wheels) has been deployed.
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Post by Telemachus on May 21, 2020 9:58:10 GMT
Interesting that the ram air turbine (little propellery jobbie between the main wheels) has been deployed. Yes I noticed that too. Presumably they had some degradation of generating capability. I guess you would deploy it when down to 1 generator rather than waiting for all generators to fail and then thinking about deploying it, especially if you were all low height /low speed on approach. Edit: they also have them for generating hydraulic pressure for flight controls etc, if you are down to one hyd pump. Not sure what that particular one is. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 21, 2020 10:18:26 GMT
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Post by mouse on May 21, 2020 10:51:42 GMT
Posted twice.
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Post by Telemachus on May 21, 2020 10:52:41 GMT
Interesting that the ram air turbine (little propellery jobbie between the main wheels) has been deployed. Does it cause an echo? |
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Post by Jim on May 21, 2020 12:13:17 GMT
Echo?
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 22, 2020 12:10:41 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on May 22, 2020 14:51:01 GMT
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Post by Jim on May 23, 2020 19:14:41 GMT
Not true, people are dying to fly PIA. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 23, 2020 19:18:09 GMT
Not true, people are dieing to fly PIA. I'm surprised that little red squiggly line didn't appear beneath the word "dieing" when you typed it.  |
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Post by Jim on May 23, 2020 19:26:14 GMT
Not true, people are dieing to fly PIA. I'm surprised that little red squiggly line didn't appear beneath the word "dieing" when you typed it. You're right, I am but a simple clown. I should've driven trucks. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 23, 2020 19:28:28 GMT
I'm surprised that little red squiggly line didn't appear beneath the word "dieing" when you typed it. You're right, I am but a simple clown. I should've driven trucks. Ex-clown. |
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