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Civil Aviation => Modern Civil Aircraft => Topic started by: String on February 15, 2013, 02:42:58 PM

Title: Heads up
Post by: String on February 15, 2013, 02:42:58 PM

Airbus BELOUGA transporter is heading our way Just over IoM at the moment

Title: Re: Heads up
Post by: Sneaky_Nikon on February 15, 2013, 02:47:11 PM

Typical 8/8 here and no chance.    Lovely all morning too!

Title: Re: Heads up
Post by: Dave on February 15, 2013, 02:58:48 PM

Oh damn! Just missed it by 10 minutes, looks like it flew right over my house aswell  :(

Title: Re: Heads up
Post by: smudge on February 15, 2013, 03:11:31 PM

Quote from: mig21 on February 15, 2013, 02:50:24 PM

F-GSTA A300 TLS-BGR

Interesting that the type wasn't allocated a separate ICAO code, given that it's slower in cruise and lower in cruising altitude!

I wonder what they consider to be substantive differences?  I thought the idea was that the identifier code quickly apprised ATC of the flight characteristics.