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Post by Biggles on Jun 26, 2015 21:33:49 GMT 1
Planefinder at 2130 tonight Friday is showing an interesting flt c/s "RRR 40 LQ" operated by EI-EBS currently over S Spain designated as an RAF Ascot Flight ?
New one to me anyone any info ?
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Post by viscount on Jun 26, 2015 21:45:48 GMT 1
Had a quick cast around Southern Spain on freeview Fr24 and could not locate RRR 40LQ or EI-EBS, nor, indeed I could not find RYR 40LQ - which is what I expected to find. One letter mis-entered changes a really odd sighting to something totally unexceptional.
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Post by Biggles on Jun 27, 2015 0:14:40 GMT 1
Viscount, as a moderator of this site I have to say that your worded reply to my upload was rather condescending to say the least. Not what should be expected.
I uploaded what a saw as being an unusually odd flight and one I had not seen. The detail was taken from exactly what I saw and noted as it WAS showing on Planefinder and identifed tge flight as a Ryanair 737-800 EI-EBS with an RAF c/s "RRR40LQ" Planefinder showed also an RAF Roundel and not the normal Ryanair identifier symbol.
I am quite capable of putting the correct information as an upload and, had I been gifted with the clairvoyant abilities you appear to have shown in your reply I probably would not have wasted my time uploading something very unusual but none existant as it appears according to you, but maybe hopefully of interest to other members if it did exist.
Just to add confusion Planefinderdata base has a flight by that exact aircraft as not identified between FR1971 and FR1972 with no detail .
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Post by viscount on Jun 27, 2015 0:49:59 GMT 1
You asked for comment and got it. Never said you were mistaken, just that there was a likely simple alternative explanation for a rather strange flight which made no sense. On a quick look around on a different system I could not locate, therefore neither confirm nor rebuff. Certainly FR24, while providing a quite incredible amount of information does also have errors and weaknesses, which I suspect so can Planefinder. It only takes one letter miss-entered at source (in the cockpit, not by you reporting it) to provide a totally erroneous message on screen. R and Y are close on the keyboard. You cannot deny that RYR40LQ matches the aircraft operator and usual flight number style far better than RRR does. Never heard/seen an alpha-numeric flight number allocated by Euro-Control to a RAF 'Ascot' flight (although no reason why they shouldn't). That is why you spotted and reported the flight because the facts did not add up.
If 'Planefinder' thinks it is showing a 'RRR' flight number, then it will automatically show the 'roundel' identifier not the Ryanair one, the system will react to the flight number designator not registration.
Condescending or not, I still feel that RYR40LQ is a way far more likely flight number for EI-EBS (which is a Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS) than a charter (Ryanair generally do not operate charters) to the British Government. True, today (Friday) has not been a normal day for the Foreign Office, but it would be very quick off the mark to be a repatriation charter from Tunisia by HMG (rather than the tour operators).
As you can tell I'm far more 'cock-up' than 'conspiracy' theory in my outlook on events!
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