http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: low flying aircraft en Sun, 17 May 2026 10:35:51 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882&page=2#post-121446 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 17:03:36 +0000 Cyclingmollie 121446@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Goodness me, civil airliners flying low over the city?Must not have spotted Air Atlantique's DC3 trips a few years ago. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121420 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:23:02 +0000 Nelly 121420@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>kaps - indeed, the same people who think the RAF are on a bombing run when the Festival Tornados go over the castle?</p> <p>They would have kittens at Edinburgh Park when the crosswind runway is in use !! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121419 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:13:01 +0000 kaputnik 121419@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/new-ba-dreamliner-gives-city-crowds-a-scare-1-3038233" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/new-ba-dreamliner-gives-city-crowds-a-scare-1-3038233</a></p> <p>Onlookers could have been forgiven for thinking disaster was imminent as a passenger jet swooped over their heads at just 1000 feet above the city centre.</p> <p>Another eyewitness said onlookers in the city centre had been left stunned.</p> <p>The [sic] said: “I’ve never seen a plane fly so low that far away from an airport in my life. The noise was deafening and it looked like it could almost have knocked the spire off the Tron Kirk.</p> <p><em>We all looked up in amazement at the great iron chicken in the sky, then fell to our knees and prayed for salvation as this was surely the end of days and the rapture was nigh</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121418 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 10:58:47 +0000 PS 121418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've just downloaded the planefinder app. That's my day sorted. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121385 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:28:22 +0000 chdot 121385@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Passengers included VisitScotland chairman Mike Cantlay, Harvey Nichols regional stores director Gordon Drummond and Edinburgh Lord Provost Donald Wilson.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/new-ba-dreamliner-gives-city-crowds-a-scare-1-3038233" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/new-ba-dreamliner-gives-city-crowds-a-scare-1-3038233</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121376 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 18:25:39 +0000 Charterhall 121376@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A spot of googling has uncovered this story from the Herald today. No mention of a flypast but it does seem a bit of a coincidence.<br /> <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/home-news/spitfire-pilot-is-laid-to-rest-70-years-after-crash.21819863" rel="nofollow">http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/home-news/spitfire-pilot-is-laid-to-rest-70-years-after-crash.21819863</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121370 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:43:00 +0000 Arellcat 121370@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Having now changed my anorak for my oil skins, I can now bring you Ship Finder.</em></p> <p>I prefer <a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/">MarineTraffic</a>. I check it to see if I should bring my camera when I'm going to be working in Leith. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121366 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:54:55 +0000 Charterhall 121366@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was just walking to the shop at Bonaly and something that looked like and sounded like a Spitfire flew over, quite low, not very fast, heading NW. About 4.30ish. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121348 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:06:04 +0000 Iratesheep 121348@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow, planefinder is amazing. If ever so slightly terrifying. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121343 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:46:03 +0000 lionfish 121343@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ah, they're lining up to land, didn't realise there was anywhere to land there! (still wondering why they flew together). <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/kH9o1" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/maps/kH9o1</a></p> <p>agh, damn you cce and your time-wasting links! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121341 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:40:29 +0000 lionfish 121341@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>what are these three little planes doing?<br /> <a href="http://planefinder.net/?location=66.788663,-52.965164,7" rel="nofollow">http://planefinder.net/?location=66.788663,-52.965164,7</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121337 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:21:39 +0000 biketrain 121337@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Having now changed my anorak for my oil skins, I can now bring you <a href="http://shipfinder.co/">Ship Finder</a>. @cyclingmollie you need not apply, unless you have all your work done for the day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121236 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:46:38 +0000 wingpig 121236@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Read this thread five minutes too late to see that URL to be able to see what just spent five minutes performing three circles around the airport (or at least somewhere in that sort of dirwction, neatly in the gap between two houses) before finally heading off. Didn't look like it was particularly trying to gain height with each circuit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121225 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:58:54 +0000 Nelly 121225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Planefinder is great.</p> <p>Although apparently there are no planes at all over China.......shhhh or they will hear you ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121218 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:23:18 +0000 Uberuce 121218@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ahh..I saw it from Portobello beach this afternoon at work and did wonder why it was so low. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121217 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:17:20 +0000 kaputnik 121217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We had a heads up from my colleague's husband who works in an office that has an airscanner radio </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121209 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:51:46 +0000 MeepMeep 121209@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I missed it!!!!!!</em></p> <p>So did I. And what's most embarrassing is that I work in the building opposite Kaputnik, next to a window, so I really ought to have noticed...</p> <p>To be fair though, my unobservancy skills are not specific to large airborne objects (however reliably). I hadn't realised it had rained heavily this afternoon until someone in the office mentioned it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121196 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:00:43 +0000 stiltskin 121196@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So that's what all the spotters were doing at the old bridge. I thought there were more than usual. Beats having a life I suppose. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121193 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:36:53 +0000 lionfish 121193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@biketrain - that website's amazing!</p> <p>Saw a plane (a 737) looping around Edinburgh on the map, and looked out the window and saw it exactly where it was supposed to be. So awesome :D</p> <p>Right ... work! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121190 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:22:05 +0000 Cyclingmollie 121190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>biketrain, you have destroyed my workplan with your pesky URL. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121189 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:14:33 +0000 DaveC 121189@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kaputnic, you naughty boy, that make me chuckle. I thought they were called Screamliner when they were on fire? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121187 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:52:04 +0000 cb 121187@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-holds-first-dreamliner-passenger-flight-1-3034057">http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-holds-first-dreamliner-passenger-flight-1-3034057</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121184 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:42:36 +0000 kaputnik 121184@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Didn't realise that it was a Dreamliner at first as it wasn't on fire. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121182 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:22:59 +0000 lionfish 121182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks everyone :D I had no idea :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121179 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:15:23 +0000 chdot 121179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh that sort -</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2013/07/27/attempt-to-hush-up-new-qatar-787-fire-fails" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2013/07/27/attempt-to-hush-up-new-qatar-787-fire-fails</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121177 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:10:09 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 121177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I missed it!!!!!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121176 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:09:41 +0000 biketrain 121176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The plane that just flew over Edinburgh was a 787 Dreamliner on a demonstration flight.</p> <p><a href="http://planefinder.net/flight/BA787">BA787</a></p> <p>I will get my Anorak. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121175 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:09:20 +0000 kaputnik 121175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Came over our building (South Gyle) at 1,000 feet, we're about 150 feet up?</p> <p>It's BA's new Dreamliner toy. They've come to show it off to Jock-o-land. Taking some dignitaries for a joyride in it up north and then back in time for high tea. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121173 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:05:45 +0000 lionfish 121173@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>maybe we both did. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10882#post-121170 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:56:33 +0000 Stickman 121170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From my desk I heard it and saw its shadow on the castle, but didn't see the actual plane. Thought I'd imagined it as noone else saw it. </p>