LH A319 Circling Around Malta (flightradar24)? — Civil Aviation Forum

Sponsor Message:


My Starred Topics \| Profile \| New Topic \| Forum Index \| Help \| Search

LH A319 Circling Around Malta (flightradar24)?

CXfirst From Norway, joined Jan 2007, 2755 posts, RR: 1
Posted (1 year 7 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 2848 times:

Hey, I was just on flightradar24.com, and there is a LH A319 flying under the flight number DLH9999 circling (at low altitude) many times around Malta (and landing and taking off). It seems to have just landed now, but it might take off again soon if it follows this pattern.

Here is a screen shot taken at 12:20pm (CEST).

Can anybody explain this behaviour?

-CXfirst

From Norway, live in Australia

8 replies: All unread, jump to last

bmibaby737 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 1643 posts, RR: 10
Reply 1, posted (1 year 7 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 2778 times:

Maintenance test flight.

Lufthansa Tecknik is at Malta.

[Edited 2011-11-19 03:43:13]

CXfirst From Norway, joined Jan 2007, 2755 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (1 year 7 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2743 times:

Quoting bmibaby737 (Reply 1):
Maintenance test flight.

Lufthansa Tecknik is at Malta.

Thanks. I thought it might be something like that, but didn't know Lufthansa Tecknik was at Malta.

-CXfirst

From Norway, live in Australia

flyingalex From Germany, joined Jul 2010, 1007 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (1 year 7 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 2179 times:

Could also have been base training with newly-rated pilots - LH sometimes does that in Malta. Condor also does so fairly often.

Public service announcement: "It's" = "it is". To indicate posession, write "its." Looks wrong, but it's correct grammar

lmml 14/32 From Malta, joined Jan 2001, 2560 posts, RR: 7
Reply 4, posted (1 year 7 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1777 times:

Base training. Regular occurrance.

flyinTLow From Germany, joined Oct 2004, 503 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (1 year 7 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1521 times:

Most definitly training. They are done on weekends, most of the time with A319s. Also there are hardly any maintenance occurances that would require multiple traffic patterns...

- When dreams take flight, follow them -

IFixPlanes From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 238 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (1 year 7 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1283 times:

The A/C has done more than 30 FC at one day!
Definitely flight training!

never tell an engineer he is wrong ;-)

Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21679 posts, RR: 23
Reply 7, posted (1 year 7 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1250 times:

Do they have to pay landing fees on training flights?

flyingalex From Germany, joined Jul 2010, 1007 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (1 year 7 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1052 times:

Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 7):
Do they have to pay landing fees on training flights?

Depends what sort of deal they have with the airport. Lufthansa Flight Training used to have a subsidiary flight school called InterCockpit in Croatia, and they negotiated a contract with a yearly payment that covered all landing charges by LH Flight Training aircraft for a hefty flat yearly payment to Croatian ATC. They sent quite a few aircraft to ZAD for base training under the terms of that contract.

Public service announcement: "It's" = "it is". To indicate posession, write "its." Looks wrong, but it's correct grammar

Top Of Page

Forum Index

This topic is archived and can not be replied to any more.

Printer friendly format

Similar topics: