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Aircraft, fires & sea stateacross western Scotland and the Firth of Clyde

Helicopter activity from the merged ADS-B feed, NASA FIRMS thermal-anomaly pixels, RNLI lifeboat fleet, AIS shipping in the Clyde and the Troon tide window — pulled together so spotters can see when something is happening, not just what's at EGPK.

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Rotorcraft up
1

Helicopters airborne over Scotland

FIRMS hotspots
0

VIIRS satellite thermal anomalies — Scotland

RNLI launches 24h
6

Lifeboat shouts UK-wide

Next tide · Troon
HIGH01:29

3.1 m

Helicopter watchlist

Rotorcraft over Scotland · plus any SAR/fire-tagged aircraft anywhere on the feed.

Callsign / regTypeClassAlt (ft)Speed (kt)From EGPK
SRD199sar/fireA189light47514433 km WNW

Detection: ICAO type-code prefix list + UK SAR/fire operator allowlist (HMCG · PDG · Helimed). Low+slow flag fires under 1,500 ft AGL and 100 kt — typical water-bombing window.

Active fire detections

VIIRS thermal anomalies via NASA FIRMS · ~3 h satellite latency

No active fire detections in Scotland on the latest VIIRS pass.

Quiet skies UK-wide. Updated 13 min ago.

RNLI fleet · Western Scotland

Lifeboat positions from the live RNLI roster

  • Campbeltown

    severn · Ernest and Mary Shaw

    55.42, -5.60

  • Troon

    trent · RNLB Jim Moffat

    55.55, -4.68

  • Girvan

    mersey · Silvia Burrell

    55.24, -4.86

  • Islay

    severn · Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit II

    55.85, -6.11

  • Oban

    trent · Mora Edith MacDonald

    56.41, -5.48

  • Tobermory

    severn · Elizabeth Faireaigne

    56.62, -6.07

  • Mallaig

    severn · Henry Alston Hewat

    57.01, -5.83

  • Wick

    trent · Roy Barker II

    58.44, -3.09

Latest RNLI launches

Most recent shouts UK-wide · launches feed

  • 13-42

    33 min ago

  • D-785

    2 h ago

  • D-757

    2 h ago

  • B-884

    3 h ago

  • B-948

    3 h ago

  • B-865

    3 h ago

Firth of Clyde · AIS

Vessels currently visible on AIS within the Clyde watchbox

  • JOHNNY JAMES

    Tug · 0.0 kt

    29.78, -93.33

  • POLLY-L

    Dredging · 0.0 kt

    27.89, -82.44

  • REBEL ANCHORMAN

    Port Tender · 0.0 kt

    50.76, -1.29

  • MMSI 235066428

    vessel · —

    51.71, -2.51

  • STUYVESANT

    Dredging · 0.7 kt

    27.61, -82.85

  • HORIZON ARCTIC

    Cargo · 0.0 kt

    57.39, -5.64

  • LUNA

    vessel · —

    50.84, -1.10

  • LORELEI

    vessel · —

    52.01, 1.19

Troon tide window · today

Coastguard S-92 winching ops at sea care about this. Photographers do too.

High water

01:29

3.14 m

Low water

07:22

3.00 m

Low water

19:36

0.15 m

ADS-B · NASA FIRMS · RNLI · aisstream.io · tide-forecast.com — fused via Siphon