Flares from the caravan

[LiamCarbin]

Anyone know the reasoning, why the guy from the caravan, besides the runway was shooting flares. I presume it was to gauge the wind? These weren't the usual bird scaring flares.

[vulcanxl425]

Often they will fire off flares from the caravan that are near their expiry date.

Al

[Thunder]

What colour were the flares, was the guy firing them from inside the caravan or was he standing outside, was there a/c in the circuit at the time???

[LiamCarbin]

What colour were the flares, was the guy firing them from inside the caravan or was he standing outside, was there a/c in the circuit at the time???

White/yellowish colour. No planes in the circuit. From the outside of the red and white cheques caravan. A blue one went off the other day as a Hawk T2 landed but I heard on my radio that was to simulate something

[Thunder]

Sounds like they were just firing off near expiry date flares like vuclanxl425 said above.

[LiamCarbin]

Sounds like they were just firing off near expiry date flares like vuclanxl425 said above.

Awesome, thank you for clearing that up.