Very interesting flight pattern - any ideas ?

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Very interesting flight pattern - any ideas ?

#1 Post by jph »

Very interesting flight pattern / log from very early Tuesday morning. A friend of mine was using a home brew ADSB receiver based on a Raspberry PI and an SDR USB Dongle.

The base / airport is a military one. Ex RAF now British Army. The base is Leuchars, EGQL
One hell of a flight pattern.

The aircraft is a Shadow 1 RAF Airborne intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) aircraft. (Snake 57).
Based on a King Air 350. Home base for the Shadow aircraft is RAF Waddington but Snake57 seems to have departed and arrived back at RAF Scampton on this occasion.

My guess is testing TACON ?? - dunno.. - maybe it's a sign for ET ;)

@JackZ or anyone got any ideas ? - have you seen this type of thing before ?

There is a link to Jepp data for the base below the image
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http://ww1.jeppesen.com/documents/aviat ... Charts.pdf
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Re: Very interesting flight pattern - any ideas ?

#2 Post by JackZ »

Looks like a calibration flight for a Navaid.
Every now and then ground based Navaids including ILS have to be calibrated in flight.
Could also be a simple IFR drill
It’s not St Patrick’s day so I guess we can rule out a Trifle pattern :lol: :lol: :lol:
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