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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no, im not national geographic.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But like seriously, I have absolutely no idea what is going on with these images. Like bare-minimum context.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

All aircraft are tracked. These screenshots are from a website that shows all the flight paths in real-time, or close to it.

In general you can see the aircraft type and call-sign(?), owner, point of origin, and destination. Sometimes owner and destination are obscured for varying reasons.

These particular screenshots are showing flights that originated from Russia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The background of it in video form is basically this: https://youtu.be/thqbjA2DC-E

Due to geopolitics and war, specific airlines may not be allowed (or want to) fly through another countries air space. That's what's happening. Ukraine war made a lot of routes longer and more complicated because a lot of airlines started avoiding Ukraine (due to war) and Russia (due to war but also sanctions, since by internal treaty Russia could collect fees if airlines fly through their airspace).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Since I have too much time this morning I did some digging, and I don't think anything is going down.

You observed 2 airliners that regularly fly between Russia and Turkey:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/tc-jfj/

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/tc-jfk/

D-KSJX is a glider: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/d-ksjx/

Aircraft SPIRB is most likely a private plane that took off from a rural airstrip at coordinates 53°58'59"N 20°52'51"E.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is normal. They fly using some kind of corridor if I'm correct. I took such plane from Russia to turkey 2 months ago and it's definitely not a direct flight because Russian planes are not allowed in many countries' airspace.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

another one is about to do the same thing (go from Belarussian airspace to Lithuanian airspace)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s just going around Ukraine, isn’t it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hmm

edit: one just turned south perhaps?

edit: WHAT IS HAPPENING (too many events to post)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing to see here. Typical Russian pilot too drunk to fly directly south.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it turned south and two more

edit: hmmmmmm

edit: too many events

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

it's now in the sulwaki gap

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

im not even gonna report anymore and just gonna go back to doing something else.