Help with FR24

[ronturner]

Until now I have only had a passing interest in FR24, just looking up from links provided.
now I want to look a something specific and wonder if it is possible and how do I do it.


My daughter is coming out to La Rochelle on Flybe BE3825 tomorrow evening. Is t possible, earlier in the day to find out what aircraft might be making this run and to trace its progress on its other sectors in the day?
If so, is it simple to do and can it be explained?
Thanks in advance.

[viscount]

I've waited for the regular users of FR24 to come forward. As they are too shy to share their expertise (or so addicted to watching the tadpoles wiggle across the screen that they have no time), I'll have a go. Actually I may do better, as presumably like you I am a 'freeview' user, not a subscription membership that offers wider services. Using my MS 'Windows' PC:

On the top of the FR screen, click on 'search'.

A small drop down panel appears, type in BE3825

A larger drop down panel appears, click over the yellow BE3825

You get a page that lists the aircraft that operated the route in the past and several lines with no details for the future. The registration will appear some point in the day, often around the time of departure. Then you will have the option of following the flight in real time.


Now to play games with FR24 provided information.

As G-JECR operated the flight on 22th (ie last Saturday), click on the blue (G-JECR) regn on the table,

This will provide you with the information of all G-JECR's flights for the past week. On the 22nd G-JECR was clearly Southampton based and operated rotations to Avignon (BE3773/3774), Jersey (BE241/242), Rennes (BE3023/3024) and La Rochelle (BE3825/3826) - in that order.

So IF (a big IF) the pattern of aircraft utilisation is the same today (29th) as on 22nd, use the 'search' option again to search for the Avignon flight number (BE3773) which as I type this is in progress as the first rotation of the day. Today (29th) this is being operated by G-ECOA. Either click on the blue (G-ECOA) or go back to 'Search', type in G-ECOA, click on the yellow regn, and you should get a table of what the aircraft has been doing all week, upto and including the current flight. Over to the right of page is a button 'live', click over and you will get the active FR24 screen with a trace of the current flight. This page will update during the day as the aircraft progresses through the daily schedule.

FR24 does not work much ahead of the current rotation, but this way you can try to double guess that G-ECOA is on todays La Rochelle flight. Anyway you can watch as the day progresses and see if the same schedule of flights is kept to. If the aircraft goes off elsewhere during the day, find what is on the Jersey or Rennes rotations (depending on what leg the predicted programme fails) and find which aircraft is on that flight and watch it instead to see if it does the La Rochelle rotation later.

Have fun Ron, and keep visiting FR24 to see if G-ECOA is behaving itself!

[woody66]

If you are using an apple device you just need to tape on the filter symbol at the bottom of the screen Ron.

[ronturner]

Thanks guys. very useful

[viscount]

As a follow-up I note that G-ECOA followed the same pattern of flights through the day, as G-JECR did the previous week. With four rotations during the day from Southampton to Avignon, Jersey, Rennes and La Rochelle, she ended the day back at Southampton landing a few minutes early from La Rochelle. Ron, trust you had fun following 'OAs progress during the day, and likely some relief that there were no problems, so no subsequent knock-on delays to upset arrival of family.

[ronturner]

Yes Brian Your prediction was correct and it was fun doodling around on FR24. I found a new way to divert me from less interesting chores.
Thanks again

Ron