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Question: I have been trying to search on an airline called Alisea. According to some souces, it ceased trading in 2003.
https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Alisea-Airlines
If that is true, then how in Hell did Alisea761 manage to fly from Rhodes to Tel Aviv yesterday?
In think I'm over a target (Alisea Airlines).Also possibly this weird flight.
Maybe they did sell the planes, but who is operating it now? Welcome to the World of Spoopy Airlines…
Best advice I can give on the planes is if you are tracking one, take regular screenshots (say every 30 mins). That way you don't lose too much if it drops off the radar.
ADS-B stops working when they leave the coastline, so be ready for that. As you gain experience, you'll start to notice patterns. Channel your inner autist and the patterns will eventually start to make sense.
There are several of us R7, Gungan Frog, and other Planefags that will guide you, so don't feel that you are alone.
Also, timestamo your screen shots so that you can follow the flow later on. I use Zulu time (GMT) as my basis for time stamps.
There are no stupid questions, although I can't guarantee that there aren't stupid answers.
Probably two feet thick with shell companies. That's what we've found with other spoopy airlines.
Look up Business Aviation Services Guernsey, Emperor Aviation, Skywings, Air Service Liege and Luxaviation if you want to see what spoopy 'services' airlines look like.
I keep finding more and more of them, they are a global network.
Roger R7. They normally start at about8.30 to 9am Central Europe Time and they can 'bomb burst' in all directions, so they can be a real handful. 2-AUER seems to want to stay home around Poland at the moment, but 2-RBTS, 2-RNWL, 2-MUST, 2-GOLF, 2-AVCO and 2-MSTG have me running ragged. They aslo seem to be adding more 2-planes and some M-planes to the mix, as well as ZJ-THC. They may have figured out what planes we are watching and keep mixing them up, hoping that we'll give up.
Not a chance.
Unfortunately, she's also pushing up daisies.
Example named file.
Callsign - day - month - year - time in Zulu time. My system doesn't like dashes in the call signs or tail numbers so I leave them out.
I use MS Paint (yeah, I know) for the screenshots, CTRL-Print Screen to capture, paste into paint with CTRL-V-, remove the borders etc.
Once you get the swing of it, it can be quite quick.