Plane circling PP

lostjeremy · Post by **lostjeremy** » Mon May 25, 2020 8:37 am

Kept hearing a bunch of planes overhead so I pulled up the FT app and it shows a JC flight making circles. I'm assuming there's only 2 reasons for this - testing or flight issues.

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IraHayes · Post by **IraHayes** » Mon May 25, 2020 8:45 am

Just been watching this a minute or 2 after you posted and Flightradar24 shows it touching down and taking off again. Not sure how Accurate the altitude reading is but it went to zero then started going up again. The graph on the left shows multiple attempts to land as well.

Felgerkarb · Post by **Felgerkarb** » Mon May 25, 2020 8:54 am

I hope just testing. But if not, dumping fuel and circling an airport down to fumes in the fuel tanks before crash landing is standard procedure.

Maybe nothing, but if a landing gear problem, flying low past the tower for visual confirmation would also be procedure. It would look like an attempted landing on the app.

IraHayes · Post by **IraHayes** » Mon May 25, 2020 8:57 am

Seems that it took off from PNH with no destination at 7:10am so probably taking the opportunity to practice landings while their is nothing in the air due to travel restrictions.

Edited to add: checked arrivals and departures.... nothing listed there for it either.

Felgerkarb · Post by **Felgerkarb** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:01 am

IraHayes wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 8:57 am Seems that it took off from PNH with no destination at 7:10am so probably taking the opportunity to practice landings while their is nothing in the air due to travel restrictions.

Likely training then...gotta keep those certifications up during the lockdown or there won't be any pilots to fly once this shit ends.

IraHayes · Post by **IraHayes** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:05 am

Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 9:01 am
IraHayes wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 8:57 am Seems that it took off from PNH with no destination at 7:10am so probably taking the opportunity to practice landings while their is nothing in the air due to travel restrictions.
Likely training then...gotta keep those certifications up during the lockdown or there won't be any pilots to fly once this shit ends.

Yeah.. touch-and-go landings appear to be a valid training manoeuvre but it’s usefulness appears to be debated according to Wikipedia.
Maybe @Freightdog could she’d some light on this?

IraHayes · Post by **IraHayes** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:07 am

On a side note does it make me a bad person that after reading and checking the OP for myself I got a tingle of excitement?
My first thought, I admit, was “shit he’s right. What if it has a technical problem and crashes?”

atst · Post by **atst** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:11 am

I've been worrying a bit about plane saftey when all this is finished most planes have been sitting for months , are the safe?

IraHayes · Post by **IraHayes** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:12 am

Whilst on Flightradar24 I noticed a helicopter pilot appearing to make a statement over the southern side of PP.

Kammekor · Post by **Kammekor** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:20 am

Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 8:54 am I hope just testing. But if not, dumping fuel and circling an airport down to fumes in the fuel tanks before crash landing is standard procedure.

Maybe nothing, but if a landing gear problem, flying low past the tower for visual confirmation would also be procedure. It would look like an attempted landing on the app.

For this there's a holding point north of Phnom Penh, you don't dump fuel at low altitudes over a capital. This plane wasn't in trouble, if in trouble you don't do the same pattern 10 times. Just training I think.

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