Oil / chemical tanker

[MAvic_South_Oz]

British Engineer leaving port

 

[Smokieflies]

Thanks, very interesting. Is the trail after the ship slit that it has pulled for the bottom on the channel, or was is leaking something?

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

Definitely silt stirred up by the propeller.
I didn’t even see that when I turned , or I would have dropped and followed that back . . . would have been interesting footage.
As it was, by the time I was turning to come home, I’d flown a fair way around a bend in the channel, was a decent way out.
Tried cutting the corner and come home direct line, but as I hit the land fall at riverbank, it just stopped dead in the air.
I’d hit a NFZ for Pelican Point power station, a small gas fired back up power station maybe 500m from take off point.
Had to fly out over the channel again a little to RTH. (Manually flying as usual.)

 

[Skywatcher2001]

Nice and majestic . . . watching these huge beasts make their way out of the channel and out into free navigation.

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

Nice and majestic . . . watching these huge beasts make their way out of the channel and out into free navigation.

Very true.
I want to fly more ships like this.
Discovered they have transponders like planes and there’s a website you can go and see where they are, been, headed.
There’s also an app.
Be good to watch and know when / where to go film them.

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[Skywatcher2001]

Discovered they have transponders like planes and there’s a website you can go and see where they are, been, headed.

Yeah, I've been following ships on that site for a few years now. The cruise ships too. At first it's kinda overwhelming until you zoom in on the map and it becomes simplified.