Are the RCH flights regular routes and therefore listed somewhere, same for RAF RRR flight No`s, or are they more random?
I`m bored on a miserable afternoon, not much happening except RCH5001/C5A.
Dave.
Not sure about how regular they are but had a RCH C5 fly right over head my house earlier, nice sight!
Some are based on aircraft registration, others based on mission and some are sequential like the ones with a "T" suffix.
Dave,
There are a number of main routes that REACH aircraft take when transiting across the UK.
Eastbound from the SW; GITUS>DIKAS>MAM and then NAVPI if not landing at EGUN. They reverse the route going West.
Eastbound coming in from the NW e.g;
GOMUP/GINGA/MIMKU>HERON>BAGPO>TIPTA>DOLAS>NALAX>NAVPI.
Eastbound from the West;
REMSI>POL>GOLES>OTBED>DOLAS>NAVPI
Although these are the most common routes they can vary depending on wx, range and other traffic.
If you are really interested in REACH aircraft tracking you should join a group such as Reach Hunters International at http://groups.yahoo.com/
You could also consider purchasing PlanePlotter by COAA which will allow you access to their free network and which, with their low cost multilateration option, will allow you to track most non-positional aircraft.
Tom
Thanks Chaps, the forum at it`s best.
There are some patterns with flight numbers yes....
Generally if its got 4 digits, it ties up with the tail number.
There are also many civilian 'charters' which fly RCH flights.
Looking back through the logs I can't see a hard and fast rule to be able to tell if its a charter from the flight number, for example there are flights in the RCH2xx series which represent civvies and military hardware.
There are always exceptions to the rule.
But armed with an RB it's easy!
A few weeks ago, I had a RCH flight pass nearby. It was displayed as a UAL 747 and when I switched on my radio to listen for the flight, the pilot mistakely said the callsign "United" before correcting to "Reach".
Military RCH flights don't have ADS-B whereas civil ones almost invariably do, so they show up on the map.
Tom