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13901 ( 2 points, 1 bonus point )
Location guessed: HAM - Hamburg, Photo post #24, time guessed in 5h49 minutes.
Location guessed: LAS - Las Vegas, Photo post #80, time guessed in 9h18m (Bonus point awarded)

1Aturnleft (2 points)
Location guessed: LGW - Gatwick, #389, time guess in - 2h5 mins
Location guessed: CUN - Cancun, #424, time guess in - 2h4 mins

A13 (1 point)
Location guessed: EDI-Edinburgh, #501, time guessed in - 101 minutes

ACARS ( 1 point, 1 bonus point )
Location guessed: IAD - Washington Dulles, #489, time guess in - 55 mins ( Bonus point awarded - BA logo )

AJA_ (3 points)
Location guessed: SLC - Salt Lake City, #517, Time guessed in 108 minutes.
Location guessed: KIR - Kerry Airport, #614, Time guessed in 132 minutes.
Location guessed ATL - Atlanta, #629. Time guessed 1 day 10 minutes.

Akoz (2 points)
Location guessed: LGW - London Gatwick, #672, Time guessed in 43 minutes.
Location guessed: ORY - Paris, #685, Time guessed in 27 hours 48 minutes.

BarneyMcGrew (5 points, 1 bonus point)
Location guessed: JNB - Johannesburg, Photo post #340, Time guessed in 12h 22m.
Location guessed: BUD - Budapest, Photo post #526, Time gushed in 14h 13m.
Location guessed PHL - Philadelphia. Photo post #545. Time guessed in 1 hr 21 min.
Location guessed BHD - Belfast City. Photo post #564. Time guessed in 11h 48m.
Location guessed PIT - Pittsburgh Photo post #608. Time guessed in 49m.

captaincox (1 point)
Location guessed: MLE - Mal, post #429 time guessed in 48 minutes.

Chiller3333 (1 point)
Location guessed: HYD - Hyderabad, post #174 time guessed in 34 minutes.

CPH-Flyer (1 point)
Location guessed: SZG - Salzburg. Photo post #796, guessed in 8 minutes.

crazyarmadillo (2 points)
Location guessed: BZN - Bozeman Yellowstone, photo post #249, time guessed in 19 hours 33 minutes.
Location guessed. LCA
Larnaca International Airport Glafcos Clerides, post # 569, time guessed in 49 minutes

dfw88 (1 point)
Location guessed: SAF - Santa Fe, NM. Photo post #720, guessed in 22 minutes.

econ (5 points)
Location guessed CNS - Cairns, Photo post #195, time guessed in 12 hrs 24 minutes.
Location guessed BCN - Barcelona. Photo post #470, time guessed in 21 hrs 33 minutes.
Location guessed PVD - Providence, RI. Photo post #738, guessed in 5 hrs 7 minutes.
Location guessed DPS - Denpasar, Bali. Photo post #764, guessed in 4 hr 44 min
Location guessed DFW - Dallas, TX. Photo post #828, guessed in 5 minutes.

EDIwanderer (1 point)
Location guessed DTW - Detroit, Photo post #135, time guessed in 3 minutes.

filotimo (1 point)
Location guessed RUH - Riyadh post #774 timed guessed 2 hours 2 minutes.

Gastrocnemius (1 point)
Location guessed ARN - Stockholm Arlanda, Photo post #231 , time guessed in 28 minutes.

greg5 (1 point)
Location guessed SAF - Santa Fe New Mexico. Photo post #531, time guessed 10hrs & 7 mins

ISTFlyer (7 points +1 bonus point)
Location guessed IST - Istanbul. Photo post #306 and guessed in 5 minutes!
Location guessed NBO - Nairobi. Photo post #337 and guessed in 3 minutes!
Location guessed SYD- Sydney. Photo post#362 and guessed in 5 minutes.
Location guessed EDI-Edinburgh Photo post #403
guessed in 59 minutes
Location guessed HAJ-Hannover Photo post #583 guessed in 14h 15m.
Location guessed DLM-Dalaman Photo post #624 guessed in 1 minute.
Location Guessed FRA - Frankfurt Photopost #679 guessed in 1 minute

Jeroen100 (1 point)
Location guessed BNA - Nashville. Post #511 in 8 minutes.

Lefly ( 1 point )
Location guessed: EZE - Buenos Aires, photo post #64, time guessed in 10h13 minutes.

Lily23 (1 point)
Location guessed: SEA, Photo post #205, time guessed in: 7h40m.

LCSinTexas ( 1 point )
Location guessed: LAX - Los Angeles, Photo post #802, time guessed in: 1 hour 59 minutes

mrow (1 point)
Location guessed:SIN Singapore post#621, time guessed in : 1 minute

Nonspecific (1 point)
6 hours, 22 mins, location guessed IND post #314, photo #309, IND

OddJobMan (1 point)
Location guessed: GVA - Genera, photo post #275, time guessed in: 4h 30minutes

PETER01 (1 point)
Location guessed: JTR - Santorini. Photo post #618, guessed in 7 minutes.

Saltire74 (2 points, logo in window)
Location guessed GLA-Glasgow,Photo post #317, time guessed 10h19m

Schwann ( 5 points )
Location guessed: PRG - Prague, Photo post #11, time guessed in: 44 minutes.
Location guessed: GIG - Rio de Janeiro, photo post #55, in 112 minutes.
Location guessed: ORD - Chicago OHare, photo post #122, guessed in less than a minute!
Location guessed: IND, photo post #153, guessed in 86 minutes.
Location guessed: LAX, photo post #182, guessed in 460 minutes

Sigwx ( 1 point, 1 bonus point )
Location guessed: EXT - Exeter, Photo post # 2, time guessed in: 0h 21 minutes (bonus point awarded)

T8191 (1 point)
Location guessed CPT-Cape Town, Photo post #437
time guessed in 3h01minute

Tedcruz ( 1 point )
Location guessed: JFK - New York, Photo post #50, time guessed in 10 minutes. (Bonus point awarded)

TedToToe (2 points, plus 1 bonus point )
Location guessed: LED - St Petersburg, Photo post #33, time guessed in 1h37 minutes. (Bonus point awarded)
Location guessed: LIS - Lisbon, Photo post #374, time guessed in 12h05 minutes.


The_Banking_Scot (1 point)
Location guessed: GLA - Glasgow, UK. Photo post #221 time guessed in 26 minutes.
Location guessed: DFW - Dallas/Fort Worth. Photo post #420 time guessed in 3 minutes.


Vasto1M (1 point)
​Location guessed GRU. Photo post '453 guessed in 6h2m

WickedStepMother ( 2 points )
Location guessed: GOT - Gothenburg, Photo post #18, time guessed in: 1hr22 minutes.
Location guessed: CDG - Paris CDG . Photo post #238. time guessed in 58 minutes.

YYCCL3 ( 3 points )
Location guessed: KEF - Keflavk, Photo post #6, time guessed in: 2h15 minutes.
Location guessed: ISL - Atatrk, Photo post #127, time guessed in: 5 minutes
Location guessed: DOH - Doha, Photo post #131, time guessed in 37 minutes

zat_dude ( 1 Point )
Location guessed: SOU - Southampton, Photo post #407, time guessed in 3hrs 33 minutes



































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Old Mar 27, 2022, 2:35 am
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Not GIB
But we have a winner in JNB
Signs are on the service vehicle road opposite the domestic gates.
Will update the wiki-done
Well done on your first correct answer of the year BarneyMcGrew👍
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In celebration of an about-to-be BA destination...
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Old Mar 28, 2022, 3:09 am
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Well done - the first BA15 due here in 9 hours or so after a gap of two years.
Some weirdly intricate routing over Central Asia earlier today for anyone following on FR24.

Photo taken on what was sadly one of the last EK A380 flights in early 2020.
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Old Mar 28, 2022, 3:11 am
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Originally Posted by Bullswood
Well done - the first BA15 due here in 9 hours or so after a gap of two years.
Some weirdly intricate routing over Central Asia earlier today for anyone following on FR24.
The clue made my job super easy
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Originally Posted by Bullswood
Well done - the first BA15 due here in 9 hours or so after a gap of two years.
Some weirdly intricate routing over Central Asia earlier today for anyone following on FR24.
Routed to avoid Iranian and Afghan airspace. Not sure why there was a kink around Islamabad, though all aircraft seem to be routing round that spot either side of Islamabad. Is there some sort of trouble there?. It is a daily BA destination from LGW.
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Old Mar 28, 2022, 4:39 am
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Originally Posted by SpurMan
Routed to avoid Iranian and Afghan airspace. Not sure why there was a kink around Islamabad, though all aircraft seem to be routing round that spot either side of Islamabad. Is there some sort of trouble there?. It is a daily BA destination from LGW.






Ive taken a couple of screen shots and overlayed roughly in highlight the airways structure and routing. The flights come down out of Dushanbe FIR and into Lahore FIR where they follow the airways structure. Youll notice a gap that means no airways flying a more direct route towards ISB and LHE. The flights passes by Lahore prior to crossing into Delhi FIR and over Amritsar and onward to Delhi. The numbers in Red are Minimum Safe Altitudes in thousands of feet, so 25 followed by the smaller 4 is 25,400 ft amsl. Hence the airways structure avoids the cumulo-granite.
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Old Mar 28, 2022, 4:58 am
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Fascinating, thanks! A lot of route input time for someone. So a little bit of Afghan airspace & a mini dog-leg (would that actually be followed?) at the aptly named "Bolux to Asari" waypoints
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Originally Posted by Sigwx

Ive taken a couple of screen shots and overlayed roughly in highlight the airways structure and routing. The flights come down out of Dushanbe FIR and into Lahore FIR where they follow the airways structure. Youll notice a gap that means no airways flying a more direct route towards ISB and LHE. The flights passes by Lahore prior to crossing into Delhi FIR and over Amritsar and onward to Delhi. The numbers in Red are Minimum Safe Altitudes in thousands of feet, so 25 followed by the smaller 4 is 25,400 ft amsl. Hence the airways structure avoids the cumulo-granite.
Thanks Sigwx. Very interesting. I didn't realise the mountains were that high round there. With 28 and 30 MSAs I guess that would severely restrict the amount of traffic that could safely fly direct.
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Which app or system are screenshots from? They look super technical. Is this what pilots have in the tablet screens in the cockpit?
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Old Mar 28, 2022, 5:18 am
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Originally Posted by Bullswood
Fascinating, thanks! A lot of route input time for someone. So a little bit of Afghan airspace & a mini dog-leg (would that actually be followed?) at the aptly named "Bolux to Asari" waypoints
No problems. Just happens to have the system open while I was working on something else. My bad, poor highlighting skills. From memory you route direct on the airway to ASARI from Lahore. The coordination between Lahore and Delhi can often be interesting but has improved of late, but generally due to security the airway is followed rigidly unless weather forces a change.
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Old Mar 28, 2022, 5:21 am
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Originally Posted by MaxFlyer
Which app or system are screenshots from? They look super technical. Is this what pilots have in the tablet screens in the cockpit?
we use LIDO for flight planning and charting. These are from the raw data paper charts that we used to carry around. They are still updated and used in the background. We use either the integrated EFB or Lido charting app on the iPad EFBs and they can display varying layers of data dependant only aircraft type and are far more practical to use than a basic paper chart.
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