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[Brum X]

This will be a shame if the airport closes as it supports jobs, however and I have said this many times. For a country the size of the UK, we have too many airports especially in the north of England.

I mean how many do you want, you have Mega MAN, Liverpool, Newcastle, Teeside and Leeds Bradford, and Doncaster Sheffield ??

The Midlands by comparison has x 2 BHX and EMA and that's enough, ha

 

[JENNYJET]

I feel that the old RAF Finningley (spelling may be off) serves the region beyond local passenger services but if people are being shunted off to Manchester or Leeds Bradford airports for the convenience of airlines or their agents then what else can the airfield support? As I understand things, Doncaster supports specialist Cargo movements, perhaps military, perhaps not. Since the closure of Manston there are few non military airfields that can do what Doncaster can. I hope it remains open and not become victim to Government housing policy!

 

[mullion]

The problem is Peel wherever they dip their fingers problems arrive.

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

I don't really know where to post this but as this is fantasy/simulation I'll post it here. So before my first time flying in 2019 to Canada from LHR I was always scared of Flying the crashes a couple of years before and then other stuff. So in October 2018 I downloaded Airlines Manager a game which well you create and manage your own airline. My first hub as I didn't really know what I was doing was Birmingham this is of my current proper airline basically my first successful one. I started of flying to the States Austin, Delhi, Kingston using Boeing 777-200's, Airbus A319-100LR that I was given by the game as a gift and a Boeing 737-700ER anyway months passed and I decided to change things up scrapped a lot of Routes. Birmingham in the game can't handle A380, 777-200ER/LR/300/300ER, 787-8/9, A350-1000, 767-400ER, A340, 747 and some other aircraft because they are either category 8/9/10 aircraft mostly Catergory 8 whereas BHX has a Catergory 7 runway. The developers said if I can contact them they could change it. So the largest Widebodies out of Birmingham you can get are 777-200, 757's, 767-200ER/300ER, 787-10, A330's, A350-900XWB and ULR and a few others anyway I now have 10 hubs and 2 Concordes, lots of the Catergory 8 aircraft from Campbeltown my second hub which had a Cat 9 runway and was cheap for me to expand to, Manchester, LGW, LHR, London Manston and Belfast my other hubs are Jersey, Newquay, Cambridge as a St Helena. But my point is I did Transatlantic routes Granted all of the East Coast routes from BHX and Campbeltown need to be reorganised so Now I know what I'm doing I can put Widebody aircraft on the routes. The only 747 I can get into BHX is the classics. LHR has Concorde and two 787-10 flights to JFK, LGW has 2 77W and 1 772ER three flights a day anyway I have Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Johannesburg which was on I believe a Special to commerate the 777-9 test resuming so I have 1 singular 777-9X flying out of Birmingham to Johannesburg, Taipei, Beijing I'm not to sure on all my Asian routes of BHX but my point is if Birmingham could get an A320NEO flight to JFK in real life it would be decent. Jet2 I think should start maybe with there A321NEOs as Seasonal charters. Air Lingus now have a UK Base Operating two aircraft both from Manchester one to JFK being an A321NEO if BHX could get that to then we could get maybe American Airlines with the Alex now bigger it could be used to host World Athletics championships possibly encouraging American or someone to fly here for them and then decide to set up. This links to my game as I took a Punt on Small UK hubs I had never heard of Campbeltown it has 2 flights a day to Glasgow on a Twin otter I took a punt on Birmingham it worked granted it is a game but can't someone in real life do that.

 

[Brum X]

All aircraft beware flying over Birmingham on Thursday 28th July.

LIGHTS, LIGHTS, LIGHTS, FIREWORKS, FIREWORKS, FIREWORKS

Testing the lights before the Commonwealth Games start on Thursday.

Photo credit to 3JohnnyG3 on SSC

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[Kevin Farnell]

All aircraft beware flying over Birmingham on Thursday 28th July.

Don't worry, there's a NOTAM about that, as posted by Matt995 -

https://forums4airports.com/threads/2851/post-244064

Awesome photo ,by the way

Kevin

 

[Ray Finkle]

Red Arrows will be making an appearance for the opening ceremony of the games tomorrow.

Full details are in the link below but I think these are the main ones for our region.

• W of Lichfield - 8.10pm
• South West of Shenstone - 8.11pm
• Flypast Perry Park - 8.12pm
• Vicinity of Birmingham - 8.13pm
• Birmingham AD - 8.18pm

Red Arrows time and routes for Commonwealth Games flypast

They will soar past areas of Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire

www.getreading.co.uk

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

What time does that mean if they do they fly over the Walsall/Darlaston/Sandwell Area our flightpath is the one that leads over Sutton Park and Goes over like Aldridge I'm not sure on directions maybe the Western Approach

 

[Ray Finkle]

What time does that mean if they do they fly over the Walsall/Darlaston/Sandwell Area our flightpath is the one that leads over Sutton Park and Goes over like Aldridge I'm not sure on directions maybe the Western Approach

The link below has a little more detail including the proposed route on Google Maps. It's roughly half way down the page.

Red Arrows Display Schedule 2022 Flight Path, Route, Dates, Times & Maps - Military Airshows - Where are the Red Arrows today?

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

It doesn't go near me. As I don't know where to put this Congratulations To England Women reaching the Euro Final at Wembley France or Germany await and what a goal from Russo that backheel wow

 

[Kevin Farnell]

As I don't know where to put this Congratulations To England Women reaching the Euro Final at Wembley France or Germany await and what a goal from Russo that backheel wow

Discussed in the 'Sports Forum', 'Football Thread' -

https://forums4airports.com/threads/5098/page-6

Kevin

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

With Sutton Park being used for the Commonwealth Games they are using Helicopters to film the overhead shot I noticed a few flights including before the first Triathlon an Easyjet plane flying over the Park I know it is on the Flight Path but will this effect the planes flying in. I noticed they are flying over Darlaston normally about 3,000ft now doing about 5 or 6,000 ft. So are they extending the approach to avoid the Helicopters or are the Helicopters not that high at a guess they fly about 1,000ft over Sutton Park the Helicopter probably flies about the same. Also on FR24 there is Beechking doing 27,000ft doing multiple laps over Sutton Park it took of from East Midlands French registered no idea what it is doing it's been there ages at first I thought oh maybe it is doing like aieral footage for French Canadian TV coverage or maybe it is police until I noticed the Height at 27,000ft

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

Beechking back over Wolves and this G-POLX/Z is also flying over ahead doing 2,000ft I was. Beechking was doing 27,000 again

 

[RichL]

Don’t laugh.

Do the helicopters beam the signal to the higher up aircraft who then beam the pictures straight to satellites for the overseas broadcasts?

That French plane I first noticed Saturday when the mens marathon was on round edgbaston/ bournville.

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

It was a Police Plane from DSA It apparently Visited BHX before the Games it might do but it was owned by NPAS or National Police Air Service I noticed the French Plane on Friday/Saturday around Sutton Park but the Police Plane did a low circle of Codsall and landed back at BHX it had Visited BHX on that day twice. Plus apparently it is Yorkshires. WMP have there own Helicopter based at BHX an EC135 It doesn't track on FR24 but I've seen it around Darlaston it was dark after the Women's Semi Final/Final and during the day It flew over Willenhall when I think I saw it looked like it was doing Police activity and then again today maybe even before today but if flew of twoards J10 and I swear I heard a Helicopter in the Express and Star Twitter feed over West Park. It may have been the Plane but I swear they use Drones these days. The French Plane might be for French Canadian TV so you maybe onto something there

 

[RichL]

Back over Warwick today and as there is cycling there, must be what we thought to boost the outside broadcasts.

 

[rollo]

I think you barking up the wrong tree

Ask yourselves how broadcasters can send instant live pictures round the world? for example any Saturday afternoon you can watch live reports from every football ground in the Premier league as they describe and show the action and beam it anywhere in the world as it happens, same with "breaking news."

Think satellite.

I would guess the activity by the police is simply standard observation/security and extra aviation activities due to geographical spread of the games which are high profile nothing more nothing less.

 

[RichL]

Well no idea what a plane is doing 30,000 feet over Warwick when there is a race going on but there you go.

 

[oh350]

From googling the company who own the aircraft currently circling around Warwick at 26k feet it would appear it is involved in the broadcasting. Diagram taken from the Aerosotravia below shows how it works.

 

[rollo]

So why is an apparently a police aircraft involved? I'm curious and happy to be corrected but cannot see the police being involved in public broadcasting there own information gathering yes either way we will probably never know.

The diagram shown is interesting but shows what is the standard way of the signals via a ground vehicle direct to a satellite. Helicopter to aircraft to satellite cannot possibly be the standard way of broadcasting given the amount of live broadcasting instantly available worldwide unless anyone knows different.

Like I say happy to be shown differently.