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Flares from the caravan
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Flares from the caravan
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.
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Re: Flares from the caravan
Often they will fire off flares from the caravan that are near their expiry date.
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Re: Flares from the caravan
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???
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Re: Flares from the caravan
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 somethingThunder wrote: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???
Re: Flares from the caravan
Sounds like they were just firing off near expiry date flares like vuclanxl425 said above.
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Re: Flares from the caravan
Awesome, thank you for clearing that up.Thunder wrote:Sounds like they were just firing off near expiry date flares like vuclanxl425 said above.
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