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- Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:02 am
- Forum: RAF Kinloss
- Topic: Runway permanently closed?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5359
Re: Runway permanently closed?
Still in the Mil AIP as an active airfield, with no mention of crosses on runways or any unavailability.
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 2:12 am
- Forum: RAF Kinloss
- Topic: Typhoon diversions 18/8/20
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2629
Re: Typhoon diversions 18/8/20
Poor sod that had to go to Stornoway😩 I imagine he/she considers the alternative - ejecting into the Moray Firth - wasn’t too appealing. And there must surely be an internal inquiry into the operational decision to send jets out on the exercise when the weather forecasts for all the normal alternat...
- Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:37 pm
- Forum: RAF Leuchars
- Topic: Osprey
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1125
Re: Osprey
Earlier transitted Firth of Forth-Largo-Auchtermuchty-out to the NW at 2000ft at around 1200
- Thu Sep 12, 2019 2:48 pm
- Forum: RAF Lossiemouth
- Topic: Visitors Tuesday Sept 10th
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2731
Re: Visitors Tuesday Sept 10th
So what happened to the NOTAM'd closure to visitors from 1st September? And has QRA moved to Leuchars yet?
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:46 am
- Forum: RAF Leuchars
- Topic: Leuchars Fast Jet Display
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3477
Re: Leuchars Fast Jet Display
That's what I thought - but Leuchars ATC told another aircraft it was a Tornado
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 2:13 pm
- Forum: RAF Leuchars
- Topic: Leuchars Fast Jet Display
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3477
Re: Leuchars Fast Jet Display
It was apparently a Tornado, though I don't know where they got it from!
- Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:22 pm
- Forum: RAF Lossiemouth
- Topic: Lossiemouth 2018 Visitor Statistics
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7253
Re: Lossiemouth 2018 Visitor Statistics
Sad news indeed - and to think that, one Sunday afternoon in the early 1950s, my dad and his best chum crawled under what was then a three-strand barbed-wire fence at the 23 end for a closer inspection of some Sea Mosquitos living out their final days before being carted off for scrapping! Hmmm, di...
- Wed Jul 25, 2018 11:25 am
- Forum: RAF and RN Weapon Ranges
- Topic: Not Ranges more Low Level?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6120
Re: Not Ranges more Low Level?
Now that the Tornados have left Lossiemouth you would wait weeks or months in any location north of the Central Belt before you saw a single low flying military aircraft.
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:57 am
- Forum: RAF Lossiemouth
- Topic: Weekend Closure 05/23 (24/3 & 25/3)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2621
Re: Weekend Closure 05/23 (24/3 & 25/3)
Given that Lossie's official opening hours are 0800-1800 Mon-Thu and 0800-1700 Fri this is something of a non-event. QRA will presumably be covered from Coningsby for the two days.
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:59 pm
- Forum: RAF Lossiemouth
- Topic: Headed for Lossie now
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2789
Re: Headed for Lossie now
Paint it black and it'll look just like a Dominie
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 2:32 pm
- Forum: Spadeadam & SPACES
- Topic: Notams/Info RAF Spadeadam 2017/2018
- Replies: 57
- Views: 23757
Re: Movements/Notams/Info RAF Spadeadam 2017
There's also a JFACTSU exercise on tonight till 2300: H5387/17 (Issued for EGTT EGPX) - AIR EXER. FAST JET ACFT WILL CONDUCT HIGH ENERGY MANOEUVRES IN SUPPORT OF GROUND OPS WI 5NM RADIUS 550146N 0023630W (MIDDLE SHIELD PARK, CUMBRIA). PROFILES MAY INVOLVE DYNAMIC LATERAL AND VERTICAL MANOEUVRING OF ...
- Wed Aug 09, 2017 8:35 am
- Forum: RAF Lossiemouth
- Topic: Visitors 8/8
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5928
Re: Visitors 8/8
Carrier strikes on Kinloss due today: H4729/17 - AIR EXER. MULTIPLE FAST JET ACFT WILL CONDUCT HIGH ENERGY MANOEUVRES IN SUPPORT OF GROUND OPS WI 5NM RADIUS 573936N 0033404W (RAF KINLOSS, MORAY FIRTH). PROFILES MAY INVOLVE DYNAMIC LATERAL AND VERTICAL MANOEUVRING OF AIRCRAFT AT SPEEDS OF UP TO 450 K...
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:34 pm
- Forum: Spadeadam & SPACES
- Topic: Notams/Info RAF Spadeadam 2017/2018
- Replies: 57
- Views: 23757
Re: Movements/Notams/Info RAF Spadeadam 2017
Bizarre. Why would Hawks drop practice bombs when (a) no Hawks are in front line service, (b) their only conceivable related role is FAC training which doesn't require any metal to be actually dropped and (c) practice bombs can only simulate dumb bombs which we surely wouldn't be using against an "I...
- Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: USS HW BUSH Aircraft Carrier and Exercise Saxon Warrior
- Replies: 93
- Views: 28401
Re: USS HW BUSH Aircraft Carrier and Exercise Saxon Warrior
Doubt it. Why stop there when you can stop on the carrier?
- Tue May 09, 2017 9:04 am
- Forum: Spadeadam & SPACES
- Topic: Notams/Info RAF Spadeadam 2017/2018
- Replies: 57
- Views: 23757
Re: Movements/Notams/Info RAF Spadeadam 2017
Guys, I think you'll find the "NO DANGER AREA CROSSING SERVICE AVAILABLE" NOTAMs for D510 and D510A for 0800-0900 each day this week are simply a notification that no-one is manning Spadeadam ATC at those times - they're starting an hour later because they're extending their hours to 1800 UTC at the...
- Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:18 am
- Forum: RAF Lossiemouth
- Topic: XV(R) Disbandment Date
- Replies: 60
- Views: 17767
Re: XV(R) Disbandment Date
Looks like there will be flypasts on both the 17th and the 31st H0862/17 - FLYPAST AND SIMULATED AIRFIELD ATTACK BY MIL ACFT WI 5NM RADIUS 574230N 0032035W (LOSSIEMOUTH AD, MORAY). FOR INFO 01343 817090. 2017-03-0220/AS1. SFC - 2100FT AMSL, 31 MAR 13:00 2017 UNTIL 31 MAR 13:45 2017. CREATED: 10 MAR ...
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 4:22 pm
- Forum: RAF Lossiemouth
- Topic: CP-140 15/12/16
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3349
Re: CP-140 15/12/16
EGQS LOSSIEMOUTH
U4149/16 - AD CLOSED. NO VISITING ACFT OR PRACTISE DIVERSONS ACCEPTED. 16 DEC 12:00 2016
UNTIL 04 JAN 08:00 2017. CREATED: 15 DEC 13:47 2016
U4149/16 - AD CLOSED. NO VISITING ACFT OR PRACTISE DIVERSONS ACCEPTED. 16 DEC 12:00 2016
UNTIL 04 JAN 08:00 2017. CREATED: 15 DEC 13:47 2016
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 7:09 pm
- Forum: RAF Lossiemouth
- Topic: MPA's at Lossie.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6875
Re: MPA's at Lossie.
D'you reckon HMG is paying for all this MPA provision by foreign powers? If not, the Donald may have something to say about it!
- Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:58 pm
- Forum: RAF Leeming
- Topic: Exercise Joint Warrior - October 2016
- Replies: 153
- Views: 47845
Re: Exercise Joint Warrior - October 2016
Since Sweden isn't in NATO, and JW is a NATO exercise, surely this deployment is not part of JW?
- Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:49 am
- Forum: RAF Lossiemouth
- Topic: Squadron Moves
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3452
Re: Squadron Moves
DIO now saying the additional front-line squadron will form at Lossiemouth in April 2019.