IMPACT Posted March 27, 2020 Share Very quiet in the sky around Cape Town. Picked up two medical AMS flights on Flightradar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonus Posted March 27, 2020 Share Still tons of planes flying over Europe / Middle East / the US . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Still tons of planes flying over Europe / Middle East / the US . . . . Had a quick look at the European traffic and quite a large chunk of them are freight aircraft Bonus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted March 29, 2020 Share Sunday morning 08h40.One King Air, and a chartered 737 inbound from Nairobi. That's it. Bonus, DJR and SwissVan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted March 29, 2020 Share Sunday morning 08h40.One King Air, and a chartered 737 inbound from Nairobi. That's it.Amazing Hope one of them goes over the farm or my friend won't know when to pour himself a dop. Edited March 29, 2020 by DJR barrykm and Lotus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted March 29, 2020 Share Sunday morning 08h40.One King Air, and a chartered 737 inbound from Nairobi. That's it.Interestingly the king air registration is 652Belongs to the SAAF light transport squadron Lotus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted March 29, 2020 Share And now the govts 737 is heading north Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted March 29, 2020 Share And a Swiss registered PC12 just left Luanda heading south These empty skies make interesting monitoring Edited March 29, 2020 by SwissVan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 29, 2020 Share I have soap/sanitiser dispensers arriving today from Belgium. Haven’t checked which airline, but I assume it would be Cargolux. IIRC, it’s a daytime flight - will have to check shortly and revert. Bonus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geomark Posted March 30, 2020 Share Some phenomenal photos of all the parked up commercial planes around the world in this article https://samchui.com/2020/03/26/covid-19-grounded-airplanes-photography/#.XoGkWYgzY2w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonus Posted March 30, 2020 Share Never seen pictures like that before. Not even after 9/11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Quantas and KLM has yesterday (or two days ago) flown their last flights with the Boeing 747. Both airlines were gonna retire their respective 747 fleets but due to Corona and the current situation they have moved the dates forward by a year. Sad day. RoddieJ, SwissVan and Bonus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie Stewart Posted March 30, 2020 Share One EgyptAir cargo flight departed from ORTIA to Cairo, one Turkish Airlines Cargo inbound to Antananarivo and one private heading to Windhoek from JHB. It would seem that this is the quietest the skies have been since WW2, since there were more planes in the sky after 9/11. Lotus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karooryder Posted March 30, 2020 Share Quantas and KLM has yesterday (or two days ago) flown their last flights with the Boeing 747. Both airlines were gonna retire their respective 747 fleets but due to Corona and the current situation they have moved the dates forward by a year. Sad day.I also saw this but technically not the case for KLM. Martinair (a subsidiary of KLM) is still using KLM 747F air frames for their cargo service under MP flight codes. Bateleur1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ouzo Posted March 30, 2020 Share One EgyptAir cargo flight departed from ORTIA to Cairo, one Turkish Airlines Cargo inbound to Antananarivo and one private heading to Windhoek from JHB. It would seem that this is the quietest the skies have been since WW2, since there were more planes in the sky after 9/11. 2020-03-30 15_25_11-Flightradar24_ Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map.pngI stay close enough to ORT that I get the occasional flight doing an aborted landing or avoiding a weather pattern coming over our house. Never enough noise to bother me.But what has occurred to me over the last few days is that there was usually a rumble in the distance from the planes, this has now stopped. Robbie Stewart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted March 30, 2020 Share Some phenomenal photos of all the parked up commercial planes around the world in this article https://samchui.com/2020/03/26/covid-19-grounded-airplanes-photography/#.XoGkWYgzY2wGrounded_Airplanes_10-1150x1536.jpegAmazing. There was that theory that all the world's aircraft couldn't find enough place to park all at once, but that myth's busted now. Bonus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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