Ely [appearing on moving map]

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Oct 13, 2018, 11:50 pm

#46

trooper

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Greenpen

It is not just in England that seemingly smaller places feature on the moving maps. They crop up for other countries too. I expect there is a whole team of geographers who work on this night and day to lift our morals as we fly here and there.

Morale perhaps?

Oct 14, 2018, 1:09 am

#47

Modo

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Please remove it before my wife (Asian) and I next fly to the UK. I have already suffered a journey from Kendal to Aberystwyth due to those infernal maps. Ely really would be a canBRIDGEshire too far.

TBF Aberystwyth was worth the trip - but based on previous Ely visits I would put my foot down.

Oct 14, 2018, 3:08 am

#48

mwp1

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I went there a few years ago to do a pink Floyd nerd trip🤓 To see some of the places they sung about and syd Barrett's home etc granchester meadows

lovely place imo

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Oct 14, 2018, 4:44 am

#49

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Flight Radar24 shows most flights from west of here departing obscure places like Birmingham/Manchester fly directly over us in Mildenhall before heading off across Suffolk and Norfolk to the coast so presumably a way marker around here due to the RAF/USAF?

Oct 14, 2018, 5:49 am

#50

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Quote:

Originally Posted by gbs1112

Both AI and TG leave Singapore, a whole country as well as one of SE Asia’s most significant cities off their in-flight mapping and, instead, label the next door town of Johor Bahru. Johor is totally insignificant in comparison.

So does Etihad (who also seem not to recognise Doha)

Oct 14, 2018, 6:43 am

#51

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I have noticed this too and always get nostalgic as i attended boarding school in Ely in the late 90's / early 2000's. Ely is a lovely little town well worth visting in the summer.

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