Log Lossiemouth - Friday 17/3/17

[vulcanxl425]

Very special day today marking end of Tornado flying here at Lossie with XV(R) Sqn.
Managed to arrive early before main flying. Noted between 0900 and 1745

Poker 51 Flight ( 5 ship )
ZD 741/ F-LS Poker 51
ZA 452/022 Poker 52
ZA 588/056 Poker 53
ZD 848/109 Poker 54
ZD 711/079 Poker 55

Departed around 1215 for flypast at various places in Scotland before coming back in formation then airfield attack
We will remember them and the day for a long time.
ZD 714/081 and ZG 752/129 had to sit final day out on C Hard.

Visitors
84-0165 C-12U3 USAF c/s Duke 88 arrv1125 dep 1410
132 Falcon 50MS Fr Navy c/s FN 5016 arr 1148 ( N/stop)
XX 159 Hawk T1 R>Navy 736NAS (weekend stop on D Hard)
MM 40125 Br 1150 Atlantic Italian AF (arrived 15/3) deptd 1355 to Pisa c/s IAM 4112
9 / F-UHRR Alpha Jet c/s Fr AF 609Flt in at 1640
0/ F-TERR """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
4/ F-TETD Alpha Jet c/s Fr AF 603Flt in at 1652
3/ F-UGFE """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
2/ F-UHRF Alpha Jet c/s Fr AF 601Flt in at 1655
1/ F-TETF """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
6/ F-UGFK Alpha Jet c/s Fr AF 607 in at 1715
8/ F-TENE """"""""""""""""""c/sFr AF 608 """"""""""""""""
7/ F-UHRT Alpha Jet c/s Fr AF 605Flt in at 1720
5/ F-TENA """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

Support A/c A 400M Fr AF c/s Cotam 2010 arrived finally at 1738. Exact serial not known by me as logbook was soaked by this time. No doubt somebody can supply details. Many thanks.

Home to relax after a memorable day and have a Whisky or two to toast XV(R) Squadron

Al

[chrisov]

Indeed Al.
Cheers
Chris

[Contrail1958]

Well done Al and let's raise a toast also to the Hotel Boxpill whose warm and dry
interior will be remembered from a very wet day.

[Sky Pirate]

Was a great day..even the rain could not dampen it for me

[CosmonautX]

Cracking day, despite the weather. Pleasure to see the squadron getting a good send-off, and the flypasts/mock attacks were executed with style (particularly 079!). Also nice to meet a few members and chat briefly

[rh226]

Well done, that man.

Your A400 was 0031/F-RBAH according to ADS-B.

Will have to query F-TEME. I cannot find an Alpha Jet with this callsign. Could it possibly be F-TENE??

Many thanks for your persistence in the inclement weather.

Cheers,

Bob

[graeme923]

Here are the Alpha Jet from today

No 114 1
No 45 2
No 46 3
No 119 4
No 113 5
No 79 6
No 127 7
No 152 8
No 68 9
No 146 0

[onemac]

Nice log Al.

Cheers for the Alpha's Graeme.

Al

[rh226]

Thanks, Graeme.

[Mark Lawley]

Graeme / all

serials for the Alpha Jets was on the nose wheel door
Please note all serials start with a letter ' E ' eg :- E46 , E119 etc etc


Mark

[Mark Lawley]

Well done, that man.

Your A400 was 0031/F-RBAH according to ADS-B.

Will have to query F-TEME. I cannot find an Alpha Jet with this callsign. Could it possibly be F-TENE??

A400 confirmed as 0031 / F-RBAH from soggy photos

Mark

Many thanks for your persistence in the inclement weather.

Cheers,

Bob

[Thunder]

Did the PDF continue onto Kef or have they night stopped at Lossie? Would seem strange to conduct a long over water leg in the dark.

[vulcanxl425]

PDF all nightstopping. Don't know departure times.
Many thanks for A400 serial that was what I thought it was. Alpha Jet No 8 amended.
Felt pens and soggy logbooks not always a good idea

Al

[venom]

Fantastic log bud
I can learn from an expert
All the best
Colin

[whiteout75]

Can anyone ID the 2 Merlins that took off after the Tornados had done their thing?

By the look of it, one was coded 'CU' on the tail, and the other wasn't!

Many thanks.

[Mark Lawley]

Whiteout75 person

the two active Merlins were

ZH 846 Merlin HM2
ZH 827 Merlin HM2

ZH840 was poorly and was doing ground runs mid afternoon

Mark

[prefontaine72]

Love reading youre logs Mark top notch as usual mate, just out of curiosity where are PdF heading to ?

Dougie

[prefontaine72]

Sorry Al should have said reading youre logs as well mate, silly me lol

Dougie

[retro11]

Historic day indeed, pity i could not make it up but saw " Poker flt" go through ABZ so thats something another type added to the growing list of jets that i have had the pleasure seeing up in Moray in the last 30 years all thats left now are the memory's and the photographs

[onemac]

Did the PDF continue onto Kef or have they night stopped at Lossie? Would seem strange to conduct a long over water leg in the dark.

They did indeed night stop Scott and are in fact delayed until this afternoon because of the weather in Kef.

Al