Did you know that registration to Fighter Control is completely free and brings you lots of added features? Find out more....

Notam 09/12/17

Please post movements and activities to do with RAF Fairford here
Post Reply
User avatar
nick197
Moderator
Posts: 3779
Joined: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:21 pm
Location: Newbury berkshire

Notam 09/12/17

Post by nick197 » Sat Dec 09, 2017 6:22 am

07:30 - 09:00 local
U4636/17 NOTAMN
Q) EGTT/QAZXX/IV/NBO/AE/000/033/5141N00147W005
A) EGVA B) 1712090730 C) 1712090900
E) FAIRFORD MIL ATZ ACTIVE. AD, RWY 09/27 OPEN.
Image
Top
User avatar
Optic Watch
Posts: 792
Joined: Sat Oct 08, 2016 12:38 pm

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by Optic Watch » Sat Dec 09, 2017 6:24 am

DRAGON31 heading home!!

OW
Top
User avatar
nick197
Moderator
Posts: 3779
Joined: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:21 pm
Location: Newbury berkshire

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by nick197 » Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:30 am

Tower now open, runway 27 in use.
Image
Top
User avatar
nick197
Moderator
Posts: 3779
Joined: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:21 pm
Location: Newbury berkshire

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by nick197 » Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:55 am

Dragon31 cleared engine start.
Image
Top
opsjockey
Posts: 799
Joined: Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:59 am

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by opsjockey » Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:09 am

aaaah, that’ll be whats just woken me up then...

252.875, cleared FL600
Top
Stroudy
Posts: 868
Joined: Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:35 pm
Location: Fairford Town

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by Stroudy » Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:18 am

Beautiful sight and sound in the clear air from my garden. Fairford is awake!
Top
martmpf
Posts: 1569
Joined: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:27 pm
Location: Grimsby

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by martmpf » Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:19 am

Tracking on ADSB Exchange. Unusual!
80-1081 AE095C 38700 Lockheed U-2S
Top
martmpf
Posts: 1569
Joined: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:27 pm
Location: Grimsby

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by martmpf » Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:26 am

Towards just west OTT Telford. Heading 341, Passing >fl480.
Last edited by martmpf on Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:42 am, edited 1 time in total.
Top
martmpf
Posts: 1569
Joined: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:27 pm
Location: Grimsby

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by martmpf » Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:33 am

Heading for OTT Chester then Liverpool. FL>530.
Last edited by martmpf on Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:43 am, edited 1 time in total.
Top
martmpf
Posts: 1569
Joined: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:27 pm
Location: Grimsby

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by martmpf » Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:40 am

Requested FL 66,000ft
Top
Stroudy
Posts: 868
Joined: Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:35 pm
Location: Fairford Town

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by Stroudy » Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:00 am

Love that it was at 40k ft by the short time it took to get ott Worcester. Great plane.
Top
rva65
Posts: 575
Joined: Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:01 am

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by rva65 » Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:49 pm

Saw her over the top Worcester, clearly visible as a U-2 without binos!
Top
johnwayne
Posts: 1005
Joined: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:48 am
Location: milton keynes

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by johnwayne » Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:04 am

rva65 wrote:Saw her over the top Worcester, clearly visible as a U-2 without binos!
Yeah the 'binos' fit is still used occasionally on ops , but for these transit flights the jock just has Mk 1 eyeball ;)
Top
User avatar
eagle driver
Posts: 13447
Joined: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:46 am
Location: knaphill Surrey
Contact:
Contact eagle driver

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by eagle driver » Sun Dec 10, 2017 3:07 pm

johnwayne wrote:
rva65 wrote:Saw her over the top Worcester, clearly visible as a U-2 without binos!
Yeah the 'binos' fit is still used occasionally on ops , but for these transit flights the jock just has Mk 1 eyeball ;)
:P :D Like it
Top
Stroudy
Posts: 868
Joined: Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:35 pm
Location: Fairford Town

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by Stroudy » Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:58 pm

15cm of snow over 22hrs so far here in Fairford today, with a bit of drifting in the north wind, so good job he got out when he did!
Top
filmman
Posts: 300
Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:59 pm

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by filmman » Sun Dec 10, 2017 11:33 pm

Ah, from experience of using USAF weather reports in preference to our Met Office, this transit of 4 U2s was very well planned around Wednesdays weather. Makes you wonder about next weeks weather. Last night it seemed the Met Office hadn't got a clue that it would heavily snow in hertfordshire as well. Which is why we used USAF.
Filmman
Top
User avatar
Pune
Posts: 4208
Joined: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:47 am
Location: Midlands

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by Pune » Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:29 am

filmman wrote:Ah, from experience of using USAF weather reports in preference to our Met Office, this transit of 4 U2s was very well planned around Wednesdays weather. Makes you wonder about next weeks weather. Last night it seemed the Met Office hadn't got a clue that it would heavily snow in hertfordshire as well. Which is why we used USAF.
Filmman
Hi,
How can I access these weather reports, if at all.
Cheers
Pune
If you can keep your head whilst all around are losing theirs, you have probably completely misread the situation!!
Top
H.A.Bucken
Posts: 1488
Joined: Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:21 pm

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by H.A.Bucken » Mon Dec 11, 2017 3:56 pm

Howdo, Pune.
I Google "weather" plus my home town then scroll down to the 'metoffice' page. Once on, I then key on 'wind direction, speed' etc. You can change locations of course for likely runways in use. Must confess I've never tried for any USAF 'metro' sites.
Roger, S. Lakes
Top
User avatar
Pune
Posts: 4208
Joined: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:47 am
Location: Midlands

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by Pune » Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:33 pm

Thanks Roger, I'll have a look see..
If you can keep your head whilst all around are losing theirs, you have probably completely misread the situation!!
Top
martmpf
Posts: 1569
Joined: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:27 pm
Location: Grimsby

Re: Notam 09/12/17

Post by martmpf » Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:48 pm

Met Office, link is for Grimsby. Change to your location, set up as you wish. In Windows 7, save that page to favorites. Open favourites list and select the page you just added. Right click "copy". Back to destop. In a clear space, right click and select "paste shortcut". Thats how I do it anyway and for a lot of other web pages:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/wea ... jj?tab=map
Top
Post Reply

Return to “RAF Fairford”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 4 guests