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Title: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Brimon on September 03, 2009, 12:22:50 PM
A 525-seater Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial airliner, will make a flying visit to Edinburgh Airport on Saturday 5th September. Although the aircraft will not land, it will perform an approach-and-go manoeuvre, which means it will come in as it would to land but depart before actually touching down. The flythrough will take place at 13:40, and will be the A380's first appearance in Scotland.

Will maybe take a run through to see this, least I'll do is catch it on the RB!
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: EK01 on September 03, 2009, 12:32:36 PM
Brian,

Any idea as to which airline or is it an Airbus demonstrator and is it then heading over Glasgow way.

Ian
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: tarbat on September 03, 2009, 12:53:36 PM
....... and will be the A380's first appearance in Scotland.

Not strictly true.  I've got 5 A380s in my log in Scotland - A6-EDA, A6-EDB, A6-EDC, A6-EDD, and F-WWEA ;)

The A380 is scheduled to fly over Edinburgh and Prestwick airports, the Northern Ireland International Airshow at Portrush, Belfast City Airport, the Broughton factory and Birmingham airport
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Runway 31 on September 03, 2009, 01:40:21 PM
From the Prestwick Airport website

The Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial airliner, will make a flying visit to Prestwick Airport this Saturday!

The massive 525-seat, double-deck, wide-body, four-engine superjumbo will make its first appearance over the skies of Scotland on Saturday as part of a spectacular overfly of British airports and production factories.

Coming out of Toulouse, the aircraft, MSN001 (F-WWOW), the original Rolls-Royce powered prototype, is scheduled to perform an approach and fly through at Prestwick Airport at 14:00 this Saturday 5 September.

This will be followed by a flying display at the Northern Ireland International Airshow at Portrush, and an overfly at Belfast City Airport. 

It will also be seen over the Airbus facility in Broughton, North Wales, where Airbus employees will be celebrating the Company’s founding 40 years ago.  The final appearance of the day will be over Birmingham International Airport where another A380 is due to land for the first time next Wednesday 9 September.

Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: EK01 on September 03, 2009, 02:16:03 PM
Thnks for that, guys. Probably catch it at Prestwick. It'll make a change from Ryanair !
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Canonjohns40D on September 03, 2009, 03:11:09 PM
HI Guys I'm for the Portrush Airshow this weekend and we were told a few days ago the A380 was coming. It has been described as a display at Portrush and then an overflight of Belfast City Airport. I'm not sure what we will get but it is really exciting to have this aircraft visit this side of the pond. I just hope the weather holds up as it will be nice to capture a little bit of history on the camera.

We also have the Red Arrows both Days and the Typhoon due so it should be a good couple of days.

John
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Marpleman on September 03, 2009, 09:14:37 PM
Anyone have an ETA for Broughton by chance?

could be worth a hop down the '56 to see it

Cheers

Rich
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: spikem on September 04, 2009, 12:06:55 PM
1508hrs  plus Red Arrows earlier at 1445hrs then Vulcan at 1520.. Info at http://www.hawardenspotters.info/
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Marpleman on September 04, 2009, 08:54:43 PM
Cheers Spike

Vulcan's swayed it for me

Appreciate the info

Regards

Rich
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: RodBearden on September 05, 2009, 12:29:19 PM
F-WWOW is approaching Edinburgh now.

Rod
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Bat 21 on September 05, 2009, 12:43:57 PM
Aye..
         Saw him just before the network went down again

 Bat 21
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: AirNav Support on September 05, 2009, 12:57:40 PM
Network is fine, check your net connection.
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Bat 21 on September 05, 2009, 01:29:59 PM
Network appears to come & go ( for me anyway ) ... figure drops from 940ish down to 20 or so & the to 0 ... comes back a few minutes later.
Has been fine all morning ... just really noticed it when I was watching the A380 up at Edinburgh.
 If no one else is seeing these drops it must be at my end
Cheers
Bat 21
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: RodBearden on September 05, 2009, 01:38:42 PM
I'm getting the same problems as you, Bat21, but my connection is slow at the best of times.

Rod
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Bat 21 on September 05, 2009, 01:46:44 PM
Thanks Rod

         My connections are usually fine - however I am with Orange & they are having e- mail server problems at the moment so I wouldn't be surprised if it was spreading & having an effect on my broadband, although surfing the web seems pretty quick.

Will keep an eye on this site & see if anyone else is having our problem .
Cheers

Bat21
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Jeremy on September 05, 2009, 03:40:53 PM
Network is in and out all the time here. Has been for weeks.
J.
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Allocator on September 05, 2009, 03:47:24 PM
Network is in and out all the time here. Has been for weeks.
J.

I haven't seen any Network issues for weeks.  Must be a problem at your end?
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: DazrahT on September 05, 2009, 04:03:53 PM
Picked up F-WWOW doing two fly-pasts at EGBB (BHX) at about 1600hrs.

My mate was happy, as he was photting it from the footbridge at Marston Green railway station!

As for the network, I have found a fault whereby network flights appear on map, but not on the Network list, this shows (0), will post in appropriate thread on forum
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Allocator on September 05, 2009, 04:37:25 PM
Picked up F-WWOW just after its flypast at Hawarden.  The Vulcan was waiting to go on afterwards I think as it was down at 2200 ft for a while.  I picked up Jet Provost G-BWSG at the same time too :-)
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: 1030man on September 05, 2009, 05:05:32 PM
From Birmingham to Bristol then disappeared from the network - seems to have landed at Filton but really cannot tell. Bristol is 90+ nm from here and just outside the western range of the RB supplied aerial although I can see nearly 200nm south into France with it.
I alas made the mistake of purchasing a Vista laptop for RB and suffer the resultant delays, zero msgs, everything white on the screen, blank screen et.al. that other vista users seem to suffer with vista  Hope V3 cures these ills.
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: tarbat on September 05, 2009, 05:21:20 PM
I alas made the mistake of purchasing a Vista laptop for RB and suffer the resultant delays, zero msgs, everything white on the screen, blank screen et.al. that other vista users seem to suffer with vista  Hope V3 cures these ills.

Strange - runs perfectly on Vista for me.
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Fenris on September 05, 2009, 06:49:21 PM
I alas made the mistake of purchasing a Vista laptop for RB and suffer the resultant delays, zero msgs, everything white on the screen, blank screen et.al. that other vista users seem to suffer with vista  Hope V3 cures these ills.

Do you have it installed outside the Program Files directory and do you have any AV disk monitoring excluded there? If not, there be dragons.
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: 1030man on September 05, 2009, 07:27:07 PM
Hi Fenris;

Running Vista on a Dell Inspiron Dual Core with 4gig memory. It's less than a year old with nothing much else loaded except AVG and I have made an 'exception' there for RB.

RB2009 loaded as a full installation (not upgraded from 2007) and not in Program Files though not being a 'techie' I'm not sure where I would enable/disable an AV monitor.

RB is a brilliant product in my book so I am hesitant to raise issues that may be taken as criticism of RB - too much of that on the forum already at times - when the real issue is either me and my lack of computer knowledge or Vista itself as a platform for RB.

I do read the forum articles relating to vista use but dare I say that much of it goes over my head. However, I think I have adhered to the critical issues.

Perhaps you could pm me as any assistance would indeed be welcomed.
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: EMA on September 05, 2009, 07:32:21 PM
I run Radarbox on two Dell XPS vista systems and have had only minor issues with all versions.

Providing RB is installed in its own directory then it shold run fine.
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Fenris on September 05, 2009, 08:14:31 PM
Hi Fenris;

Running Vista on a Dell Inspiron Dual Core with 4gig memory. It's less than a year old with nothing much else loaded except AVG and I have made an 'exception' there for RB.

RB2009 loaded as a full installation (not upgraded from 2007) and not in Program Files though not being a 'techie' I'm not sure where I would enable/disable an AV monitor.

RB is a brilliant product in my book so I am hesitant to raise issues that may be taken as criticism of RB - too much of that on the forum already at times - when the real issue is either me and my lack of computer knowledge or Vista itself as a platform for RB.

I do read the forum articles relating to vista use but dare I say that much of it goes over my head. However, I think I have adhered to the critical issues.

Perhaps you could pm me as any assistance would indeed be welcomed.

OK, when you say you made an exception for RB what did you do? Later you say you're not sure how to enable/disable AV in this way.

It's real time monitoring you need to stop, because RB is forever changing the files in its own directory you need to ensure AVG does not keep rescanning.
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: 1030man on September 05, 2009, 10:07:55 PM
Hi Fenris,
Thanks for replying. I won't pretend to say that I understand directories because I don't - I was a pilot and I am sure you can deduce my level of computer knowledge from that!

In AVG Resident Shield - Exceptions - I have made an 'exception' for RB pathway.
In - Advanced Settings - I have unticked the box that scans file extensions.

In RB - Preferences - I have set the - Screen Refresh - to 4000ms. I assumed, probably incorrectly, that AV means an audio visual component but I do not know how or where to access that.

I use the RB supplied aerial on a South facing bedroom windowsill and get very good results to the South (up to 200nm at night) and up to about 90nm in most other directions
with a few exceptions due to physical items.

Did A380 F-WWOW land at Filton?

Cheers

Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: EMA on September 06, 2009, 07:54:35 AM
Do you have radar box software installed in it's own directory?

eg

C:\Airnav

If not then it is best to.

Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: 1030man on September 06, 2009, 10:32:08 AM
Hi EMA and thanks for your reply.

Yes, I do have RB installed in its' own directory (C/AirNavSystems/AirNavRadarbox2009) and not in C/Program Files.

Being well into my 60's and retired for nearly 20 years, the notion of being able to sit in the garden with my vista laptop and communicate with RB + Rooftop aerial on my XP desktop was sadly not achieved. I now sit the laptop upstairs with the supplied aerial and enjoy it much the same but I am not swift enough to dash upstairs too often in a day.

I look forward  to the recently announced proposal to develop a LAN facility in RB - Count me in on that one and to hell with the cost.

Any idea where A380 F-WWOW ended up yesterday? I lost it on the Network over Filton.
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: Marpleman on September 06, 2009, 10:34:11 AM
If it helps to anyone, I'm running on Vista on a Acer Aspire 5720 laptop

Downloaded full versions for both v2 and 3 betas into "program files" without any re-mappings or setting up of separate folders - just let the program load as it wanted to, as I don't have a clue as to these sort of things,so thought it best to let it do what it wanted.

Set up exception in AVG as "1030" man did also as hinted elsewhere on the forum as a known conflict with that software

Never had any problems whatsoever with it running on Vista!

Rich

Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: cornish rebel on September 06, 2009, 11:27:47 AM
Just picked up the A380 F-WWOW departing from Filton on the network looks like it stopped there for the night
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.?
Post by: 1030man on September 06, 2009, 11:39:57 AM
Hi Cornish Rebel,
Another Cornishman here - ex Lanson. What direction was the A380 heading? 
Title: Re: A380 at Edinburgh this weekend.
Post by: cornish rebel on September 06, 2009, 01:04:26 PM
Hi 1030man I'm a ex Lanson man my well from Trewint out on the moors now in Limerick Ireland about 20 odd miles from Shannon EINN I just tracked over France its just landed in Toulouse (Blagnac) LFBO good to see another cornshman on here

all the best Mark