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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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Helicopters airborne over Scotland

FIRMS hotspots
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VIIRS satellite thermal anomalies — Scotland

RNLI launches 24h
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Lifeboat shouts UK-wide

Next tide · Troon
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tide window

Helicopter watchlist

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

No rotorcraft over Scotland on the feed right now. Check again in a few minutes — helicopters often pop on/off ADS-B at low altitude.

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 14 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

  • 17-51

    59 min ago

  • D-862

    1 h ago

  • D-774

    2 h ago

  • 14-25

    2 h ago

  • 16-27

    2 h ago

  • D-894

    2 h ago

Firth of Clyde · AIS

Vessels currently visible on AIS within the Clyde watchbox

  • AYTON CROSS

    Tug · 0.0 kt

    55.94, -4.72

  • ARGYLE

    Passenger · 0.0 kt

    55.84, -5.05

  • MMSI 992351318

    vessel · —

    56.02, -4.79

  • GO WEST CLIPPERTON

    vessel · —

    55.98, -4.95

  • VANIKORO

    vessel · —

    54.97, -5.95

  • SMB-03

    Other · 0.0 kt

    55.94, -4.73

  • PATHWAY

    Fishing · 0.0 kt

    55.88, -4.38

  • SD CLYDE RACER

    vessel · —

    56.01, -4.78

Troon tide window · today

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

Tide upstream unavailable.

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