flightradar24 flight searchesFor anyone who wants to see the test flight route from the post on Jan. 8, here is a way to do so that may hold up longer as a link.
Go to
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/WJA8906 This is the flight that we were informed was testing AFIRS SatCOM in a YYC-to-YYC pattern to the northwest of Calgary.
Another flight of interest was pointed out to me.
Try
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/WEN8907 This may work also, for a while.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/wr8907#2ecfd361 This flight occurred on January 10th. A WestJet Encore Dash 8-400 flew an elongated loop to the southeast, YYC-to-YYC, a shorter flight by comparison with no figure 8 in it.
I don't know if such out-and-back flights are scheduled much ahead, but one can look for departures from YYC with the destination YYC at this link, forward and backward in time, for short periods.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/yyc/departures