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I live near Stansted airport and we have had three Apache’s hovering around for the last hour. Two of them seem to be on the flight path out of Stansted so no planes are taking off at the moment. Very strange. Can’t seem to find anything in the press. 

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I’ve been looking on Flightradar24 (couldn’t see the apache’s unfortunately) and there are two ground vehicles that appear to be showing up going up and down the runway. is this because they have transponders? Ranger and Fire1. Anybody know? 

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1 hour ago, AVB said:

I’ve been looking on Flightradar24 (couldn’t see the apache’s unfortunately) and there are two ground vehicles that appear to be showing up going up and down the runway. is this because they have transponders? Ranger and Fire1. Anybody know? 

Yes, they are txpdr equipped.

Any Airport needs to know where vehicles etc are. Esp in low visibility operations.

The times this has caught me out as have tried queue jump and ask for start clearance to be told “Sir, call back when you actually are ‘ready’ and have a push back truck “ 

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12 minutes ago, kennett said:

They have been playing doing circuits over my shoot the near Newmarket the last few weeks. Coming through so low they have to hop over the woods, keep trying to get them to play chase with my Taliban wagon but no luck  

I doubt you really want them to show you what they could do to your tali wagon!:w00t:

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