Update to the below – it looks like flightaware does not track private flights in the European region. I had hoped it’d work, because it does work for private IFR flights in Australian just fine. It’ll start working when we are back near Australia again.

Oh well!

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If you haven’t seen it, this web site:

http://www.flightaware.com

… is pretty amazing.

Not only does it track commercial flights, but it also tracks private ones where a flight plan has been properly filed.

This means you should be able to use it to track the progress of the upcoming ferry flight in near real time, by just entering my aircraft registration (VH-TCP) into that web site using the “Private Flight Tracker” box.

Note that VH-TCP won’t work as a search term until we start actually flying my aircraft in the ferry journey…! Its sitting there in Stans, waiting for us to arrive… 🙂

Of course, flightaware will also track the outbound flights to Stans (QF81, QF9, BA710) using the normal airline/flight number boxes, but that seems somehow very ‘routine’ compared to doing it the way we’ll be doing it coming home 🙂

Must pack some shorts, looks like nice weather in Stans!