This Jet2 flight (EXS303Q) appeared to abort it's first landing and has been circling for a while now. The Ryanair flight (RYR7771) has been holding, waiting to land.
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A nice loop-de-loop on approach into Barcelona. It looks like not everyone hates Mondays ;)
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Delays on approach to Barcelona late Sunday evening.
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It's been a while since I've seen "Catbrd1" in these parts.
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DLH9999 crew training on a quiet Sunday at Reus Airport, performing touch and goes and go arounds. DIDAS biz jet on finals too.
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More crew training. Ignore the route info, VLG991K has been doing approaches and go-arounds for almost the last hour.
Between November and March, there's a fair amount of weekend crew training carried out by airlines such as Vueling and Lufthansa.
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More Saturday crew training at a quiet Reus airport. This time Lufthansa are using the facilities.
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Same aircraft as yesterday, back for more training on a sunny, windless, Sunday morning.
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Still training and annoying everyone on the flight path who just wanted a quiet Sunday :)
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Day 3 - and still no let up in training.
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After 72 hours, D-AIBG (DLH9917) finally heads off
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I think you spelt "heads" wrong ;D
Tim
That's the problem being an expat talking all foreign like, you long time no speak the English good :)
This time Vueling, rather than Lufthansa, crew training.
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Now heading to Barcelona airport.
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Vueling training again
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During the winter, Reus airport is a pretty quiet place, so is perfect for airline crew training. Again Vueling are using the facilities.
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EC-LPQ of Air Europa and EC-LVP of Vueling, holding just offshore, waiting to land at Barcelona.
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EC-JTR of Vueling used for training today.
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EC-KDT of Vueling has been doing circuits over Reus since early morning. This is unusual as most training occurs only at the weekend.
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I'm used to them flying overhead, but not taking off from Barcelona
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Lufthansa training this weekend.
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Vueling training on a very windy day, with gusts of up to 40kts from the northwest :(
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EC-KCU of Vueling being put through its paces on dull, damp February day
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EC-IEI of Vueling (formerly of Iberia) used for training on a sunny, mild but windy day
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Friday evening traffic queues around Barcelona aren't confined to the roads only :)
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Unusually there has been training every day, alternating between Vueling and Lufthansa. Normally I would only see it on weekends during daylight hours. There has been daily activity too, with the mode a/c and mode s only equipped light aircraft (DA40, DA42, PA28 among others) used by CESDA too. So a lot of pilot training going on this week.
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I haven't posted a screenshot for a while, but training at Reus continues with Vueling.
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What is "HABU55"??
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Holding on approach into Barcelona
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Hi Stephen
A BE20 beamfinder from you on my map ....
Best regards
Alain (Alpey)
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Hi alpey
Thanks for the screenshot.
He was around for about an hour. As far as I could tell he was doing "figure of 8" circuits at the same altitude around Barcelona.
Stephen
Move over Ryanair! In these parts convoys of Vueling aircraft rule the skies!
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Sunday morning traffic waiting to land at Barcelona.
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The rain has been intense today, so this Ryanair flight from Eindhoven is waiting to see if the amount of surface water on the runway reduces. My guess says it will divert to Barcelona. So much for the sunny Costa Daurada ???
Unfortunately for the passengers it has now diverted to Barcelona.
Snow stops us dead in Britain, rain stops them dead here :-[
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I thought the rain in Spain fell mainly on the plane. (sic)
:)
Winter has finally arrived on the Costa Daurada! Why?
It's the first day of winter flight crew training at Reus Airport. Vueling is the first customer of the season.
An A320 circling overhead at no more than 1600 feet for hours on end is always looked forward with joy by the residents underneath :)
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According to PlaneBaseNG, this Avion Express A320, LY-VEM, was leased to Vueling in June of this year. Vueling has stored it at Reus Airport since the 1st November. Today it's on the move again.
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The first time a Dreamlifter has gone overhead. Shame it was dark....
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Holding patterns on approach to Barcelona, mid-Tuesday morning.
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This pair flew by the window. Unusual to have them so close together on approach to Barcelona. Visually, due to the angle I was viewing them, they looked like they were flying virtually wingtip to wingtip :o
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The callsign is that of Avion Express, but I believe it's a Vueling flight crew that's doing the actual training today.
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Cometh a New Year, the use of Reus airport for training continues. The first customer of 2015 being Lufthansa.
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The second day of Lufthansa training.
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After a third day of training D-AIBH heads home
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Waiting to land at Barca last night
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Never seen this happen before. Holding at 30000ft and squawking 4001 ???
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Lufthansa were using Reus airport for training purposes until yesterday lunchtime, and today it's the turn of Vueling.
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After take-off from Barcelona airport, LV-CSF didn't get very far before going into a holding pattern just off the coast of the Ebro Delta.
As I post this, it's almost an hour since going into the holding pattern.
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Heading back to Barcelona airport
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Lufthansa back training, this time with an A319 rather than an A320, on a wet and miserable January afternoon.
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Well, it's not everyday I see a USAF tanker plotting.
Just to make sure I wasn't getting a miscode I took a screenshot of both PP and VRS screens.
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More military plotting sans MLAT.
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Swedish airforce this time. It's very unusual in this part of the world to see military aircraft plotting without the aid of MLAT. It's destination was Palma on the island of Mallorca.
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Lufthansa back in training
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Thanks to some help with optimising my kit I can now see aircraft on the ground at Reus :)
D-AILY taking off for example.
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This time Vueling rather than Lufthansa training. Also a couple of other Vueling flights holding on approach to Barcelona.
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D-AILE of Lufthansa doing a u-turn this morning, but the squawk is non-emergency (2514). Anyone know why? Is it a training flight?
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An SR22 taking off from Reus airport with ADS-B and so plotting. Not an everyday occurrence, but good to see more GA aircraft so equipped.
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It's the first time I've ever seen flight training outside Sat, Sun and Mon mornings of the winter months. This Vueling A320 was aloft all morning, changing it's squawk code from 7020 to 7053.
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Vueling normally only uses Reus airport for training during the winter months, but training continues this year into the month of May.
EC-LZZ arrived from Barcelona this morning and began training once the "flurry" of Thomas Cook flights had departed back to Blighty.
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A first! Airbus Military A400M, EC-402, 34314B, flying circuits at low-level just to the north of Reus airport.
I wish I was on that Jet2 flight with a decent camera!
Or on that Luxair flight....
Finally heading back to Seville after about 2 and a half hours.
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The first time I've managed to get a screenshot of this happening. Just for info, this is not from today.
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Lots of activity today, 23rd October, as the Rallye de Espana gets underway. EC-ERS is being used as a communications relay aircraft so there's uninterupted coverage of the rally.
Also this BE20 of Swiss Flight Services is aerial surveying and flew over my office.
OO-ASL joined later in the day as another communications aircraft for the Rally.
Today, 24th October, this is EC-ERS's day so far.
These screenshots are courtesy of those lovely people at Flightradar 24.
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This stage of the 2015 World Rally Championship has drawn to a close.
Here are some screenshots of the two communications relay aircraft, EC-ERS and OO-ASL, involved in the final stages of the Rally here in Catalonia, Spain.
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Shame the weather was rubbish when they arrived! :)
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Vueling crew training at Reus, and a Din Air BV PC12 based at Kempen in the Netherlands presumably heading home.
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N224CL training at Reus. Former Monarch Airlines G-EOMA, now (or soon to be) EC-MJS of Spanish airline, Wamos Air just of the coast. In the other image you can see that it's currently based at Teruel airport and today was performing some unusual maneuvers over the Med.
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Not something you see everyday, a French Stratotanker showing it's position sans MLAT just off the coast of Barcelona, presumably heading back to Istres.
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Okay, another rarity. A Turkish Air Force A400 showing it's position, again sans MLAT
Forgot to mention that "NATO01", a Boeing Sentry has been doing circuits around the Balearic Sea for the past 3 hours as well.
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Took off from Barcelona. A very rare USAF visitor to the airport, and even rarer showing its position. Reg should be "97-1944"
http://www.airportfox.de/spotterbrowser/sp/2015/str0604/1.jpg
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G-GDFL had to wait until her sistership (G-GDFB) had taken off from the single runway at Reus.
If you have to hold then make it pretty :)
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Not sure what he was up to.....(add your own conspiracy theory here ;) )
The flight originated in the north of Spain.
4B0EB9 SFS80 HB-FOZ PC12 Swiss Flight Services SA 16000 26000 5576 12:36 14:21
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Missed approach of OE-HRS, a CL35 of International Jet Management. Second time lucky though.
When he took off later, he went up like a rocket. Normally most commercial flights from Reus (Ryanair B738, Jet2 B752, etc.) go past my office at about 9000ft. He shot past already climbing through 21000ft :)
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Two USAF tankers heading in the direction of the Libyan coast this morning, noted just off the north-eastern tip of the Island of Mallorca in the Balearic Sea, Western Med.
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USMC and Belgian Air Component C130's off the coast of Valencia.
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Alas, I was a little to slow to get a screenshot myself, but this one is courtesy of FlightRadar24.
Two Beriev Ber-200ChS (RF-32765 - 20000ft and RF-31121 at 13000ft) possibly taking off from Zaragoza and heading towards Barcelona, and then on to Palma before heading east.
I suspect returning home from a summer of firefighting in the Iberian Peninsula.
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The WRC is back in town. This is the relay aircraft for media broadcasting. It landed back at Reus airport for the night just a few minutes ago.
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The penultimate day of WRC. EC-GIJ (a King Air) is back in action today, together with D-HBGR (a S76), RACC EC-KCM (an EC35), and EC-LHH (an AS50).
This is a screenshot of EC-GIJ's circuits today
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Today is the final day of WRC. I was luck enough to get a chance to drive on today's Duesaigues stretch of the rally - which was nice :)
Today's media relay aircraft is F-HPIX
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B-3058 (780296) and B-3059 (780297) of China Eastern Airlines, which have been in storage at Alverca LPAR, according to PlaneBase, on the move eastwards.
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Ballard Aviation Services of Newtown, Kansas, US of A, specialists in buying and selling King Airs. Not sure if they're buying or selling this one.
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The joy of MLAT. Two C-17's and a KDC-10
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Military lifters and a Belarussian :)
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The callsign "ANGEL**" is normally used on National Police flights, even though this is a Swiftair aircraft. Dassault demonstrator heading to Africa. The only working oil field is off the coast of Tarragona, I-ROAV, a AW139 of INAER is on route to the production platform. Dreamlifter on route to the US of A, together with various military lifters today.
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Been a busy week for transports appearing on MLAT. Not that I'm complaining.....
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Quiet today. Only a couple of USN B737s
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This C-32B (02-4452) is part of the USAF's 150th Special Operations Squadron.
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Saudi finance ministry Boeing heading into Barcelona
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In the vicinity of BRNCO95 is another Herc, though not plotting unfortunately, that of Prescott Support Group
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This Avcon Gulfstream is normally based at Vnukovo in Moscow, but today it took off from Barcelona and has been practising touch and goes for a few hours at Reus.
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A fair amount of RAF Hawk activity around the Balearic Islands yesterday. When I looked at my log I was amused to find this :)
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I picked up this Air Algerie flight heading (allegedly) from Algiers to Lille doing a U-turn and heading back to Algeria. The squawk code didn't change so no idea if this is an emergency or training.
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Yesterday saw another day of RAF Hawk activity in this region of north-eastern Spain.
Unfortunately, I didn't get any positions or callsigns.
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